Sometimes I wish that I lived a century ago. Don't get me wrong. I love technology and cars and microwaves and electricity and hot running water and indoor plumbing . . . thank the good Lord for indoor plumbing . . . but sometimes I wonder what it was like living in a quieter time. I mean, I know life was physically harder. I know that what we consider minor illnesses today were major diseases a hundred years ago. But at the same time, I sometimes think it must've been nice to live a life that wasn't inundated my modern technology . . . by the continual streaming of information. I somehow think life must've been simpler and more innocent on a lot of levels.
I know that people still had their share of troubles. I know that evil and corruption and wrongdoing were around a hundred years ago, but it seems like core values have really gone downhill in the last one hundred years. (I'm just full of sunshine and rainbows today now aren't I?)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not becoming Amish anytime soon. I'm not quite ready to give up my iPhone. ;) But I was just thinking about how it must've been nice to live in a quieter simpler time where living right and serving God were the norm and not considered out of the ordinary or strange. You know it would be nice to live in a time where people were a little more selfless.
Anyway, just some cheerful thoughts about what it would've been like to live in a simpler time (that I'm typing out on my very modern laptop while I watch a movie on my large screen television . . . how's that for hypocrisy???) on this quiet Sunday afternoon.
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2 comments:
Courtney,
You can live a more simple and pure life. Learn to say no - busy and exhausted does not equate to Holy as many in our modern world would make us believe. Take care of your family and do the best you can for those God puts in your care. There is no sin in needing time to be still and listen to God, needing solitude to replenish your soul, and in being a solitary person at times. Jesus was a solitary person many times in his life and it allowed him to be our Saviour. The Pharasees were the ones too busy with legalism, self-righteousness, and running the Temple to care for God's People. Do not feel guilty for seeking peace and quiet in this modern world that comes at us like a crazy whirlwind in which we find no true direction.
That is absolutely great advice in this fast paced world we live in.
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