Page Loading

We spend an exorbitant amount of hours in front of the computer screen working on papers, surfing the net, gossiping on social media or signing petitions for whatever cause floats about the web.  Much of the time we spend waiting for a new page to load and for those of us who are impatient, we open a new page while the other is loading so a not to waste a second without stimulation.  We constantly see 'Page loading' with a bar or a spinning wheel tracking its loading progress.  There we wait with anticipation of a new window or new feeds; anticipation builds only to see the progress sit stagnant leaving the only option to reboot, wasting precious time without stimulation.  Why do feel the need for constant stimulation?  What ever happened to being in a moment, silent in a moment that the truth of our being may discovered, not in am email, not in a feed but in the reality of our spiritual home.  Unfortunately, society has trained us to expect everything here and now, thus the reason for our extensive tabs opened in safari; we want what we want and we want it now, not two minutes from now, we want it three minutes ago.  And so with great anticipation we wait, watching the loading bar get to 90% and freeze; maybe life is trying to tell us something, maybe we should ponder this frozen bar for a moment.  In the time it takes to load a new page, could we not have stopped to thank God for the beauty of our day or the marvelous people in our lives?  Could we not have taken that moment to write an I love you and slipped it into our child's lunch or spouse's car?   In that moment could we not have silenced our thoughts with the understanding that God constant speaks to us and when silent we can hear His voice?  So many things we could do in that moment which the page loads, what do you choose to do with that moment?  Times are crazy, guess what, they will always be crazy; there are not enough hours in the day, there never will be; there is too much to get done to not utilize every moment of the day.  We have heard all the excuses, many, we have uttered but let's stop for a moment and think that of the 1,440 minutes in the day, not one can be spent in the presence of God, not one can be spent listening not talking, not one can be about feeling love instead of frustration, not one, really?  Let's say we sleep eight hours a day, so that is 480 minutes accounted for but it leaves 960 minutes free.  Yes, we have obligations but do we not have an obligation to God, to our faith, to living the best life possible?  To fulfill out purpose in life we must understand our purpose, to understand our purpose we must invest time in our true reality, God.  Sure, we carry many commitments on our plates, we often struggle to complete each task without misery and frustration and we do this all in the name of attaining a better life.  If we want a better life then searching to better the physical, climbing the societal ladder, struggling to keep abreast of the latest news, these things will never afford us a better life; never.   A better life is attain by one means and one means only; God.  So we say we do not have enough minutes in the day to connect to the Father but there is enough time to tweet how horrible the day is?  Do we not see the irony here?  Life disconnected from the Father brings hurt, brings anxiety, brings fear for vertigo sets in and we know not which direction is up thus we begin to drown in the cataclysmic waves of the ocean.  At first we are able to hold our breath until the wave passes but the relentless tide changes direction and pulls us from underneath, catapulting us toward the bottom; we panic, flailing our bodies until we tire and sink to the bottom whereby we sit and wait for whatever is to happen.  No longer can we let life happen to us we need to live life and live it to the fullest; to do this we must listen with our hearts by prioritizing or need versus our wants.  We need God, we need His love, His affection, His protection, His companionship; we want a means to pay our mortgage, great friends, good laughs, adventures...all the wants in the world mean nothing unless first our needs are fulfilled.  God offers to fulfill our needs, the problem is we are to busy to hear the offer let alone accept the offer.  The next time the bar says loading page, stop and listen to God's offer; He is offering a better life for a love enveloped in God's love is life experienced to the fullest.  Are we ready to 'load' a better life?  If so then we must be ready to spend some of the 960 unaccounted minutes with God, listening, feeling, walking, and accepting His promise of unconditional love.  If we do this we will quickly find that 960 minutes means nothing for God knows no time, only love.  Loading a new life with God means living love second by second only time disappears leaving in its place purpose and understanding.  Our life will fully load when we accept our purpose to be love and acknowledge our understanding of God present in our world for these two truths, coupled with prayer, life becomes a sun rise over the ocean; breathtakingly beautiful and vital to our existence.  Remove that which stands in the way of our life fully loading in Christ; embrace the heart, embrace God and very quickly 100% of the loading process will be complete.  Seconds, minutes, hours will pass yet life will be lived, lived with purpose, lived with God and enveloped in love.  Close the familiar tabs and open the only tab that matters...God.