It's Cold!

It's cold, I know I said that last time, but it was cold then, and then it got hot. Last Sunday it was hot - very hot in fact. It was the Chicago Marathon and it was stopped half way through because of the heat and humidity! And it was October! It felt like mid-summer! Weird!

Anyway, it's cold again and the central heating boiler has decided it doesn't want to work. So we have a man down there now trying to encourage it to give it a go; to persuade it that this is what it was created for; to say that although it may really want to be a refrigerator it really will function better if used where it skill set lie - you know, refrigerators keep things cold (supposedly) and boilers make things warm (hopefully).

There's a sermon in that somewhere. I wonder, if we figured out where our giftings lay and what God had really designed us for, and then did it, would we be fulfilled in our workplace? I am beginning to think that we would.

Is it really that simple?

Actually, I think it might be. It's just that we get into the rut of the rat race and then it's hard to stop take time to figure out whether this is the best direction to run or not. And by the time we realize that we do want to stop, we can't get off the treadmill without hurting ourselves or others. And so we keep running fast and going nowhere.

Some of us take forever to discover where our giftings lie... why is that? Are we constantly running away from what God wants us to be and do? I don't know.

Some of us know what we think God has called us to do, and somehow we are kept in the starting traps waiting to go and do it - for what seems forever... what is it with that?

Some people have definite callings on their lives, and end up for one reason or another, even unwillingly, sitting in cubicles with computers day in day out, waiting for .... what?

What's the solution?

I'm hoping you can tell me!

OK back to my boiler. Well it's perfectly OK, apparently. However the flue going from it, up the chimney and out into the skies over Evanston, is totally blocked. We should be grateful it didn't work, otherwise we would have all suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning.

There was a reason, that I couldn't see for things not working as they should, and it couldn't be found by looking in the obvious places.

There's a thought.

I think I'll leave you with that...