Even the shallowest of hearts are still searching for something to fill them...


(More posts coming soon. Thanks to all of you who read these blog posts.)

Consistently inconsistent.

(Photo Credit: J. Hall)

(I acknowledge that I need to be more disciplined in my blog writing by posting a little more diligently. Not for others, but for myself.)

So, over the past several months...I've began observing patterns. You know, everyday routines in my life or the lives of those around me or the just in our culture in general. And one thing I've consistently noticed is inconsistence. Interesting, right?

I got to thinking what's so different now from when my mom or grandma were my age. People get married later in life, yes, but is that a bad thing. People change jobs a lot and go back to school to further their education, but that's something to be admired and respected, right? Change is everywhere. But change is great. Or so I seemed to be trying to convince myself.

But what I began to realize is that it isn't going back to school or getting married later in life that has me concerned. It's the "Why?"... It's the lack of consistency and constant desire for change in OUR culture, among OUR generation that seems alarming.

We've become a generation full of indecisiveness. I've changed jobs several times since college, no big deal and I've never thought about it negatively. However, recently I started to examine the WHY? (You know, the most important of all the W's...). Why do I always have the desire to switch things up? Why do I get the itch to move and start all over? Why does marrying one person and accepting them as my husband for a lifetime scare me?

My discovery was discouraging (but nonetheless insightful). Our generation (of course this is a generalization and does not apply to everyone) lacks loyalty. Lacks commitment. Why should I buy into something when something better could hit the market in just a short matter of time?

No big deal though, right? Wrong. Does this aspect of our personality become so second nature that it bleeds over into our relationship with Jesus? Do we lack commitment? Do we lack loyalty? Are we always bought in with just one piece of our heart? Eager to buy into to the next adventure...eager to change? Our we indecisive when it comes to our relationship with the Father? When it comes to following him?

CAN WE BE FRUITFUL WHILE BEING SO INCONSISTENT, SO INDECISIVE?

So, now you know what I've been up to the past few months...or some of it at least.

To be continued...