give me some love

we need love, it is built into our humanness to be loved and to love. our heart starves and in some ways shrinks when we are not loved. in the same way, we are energized when we are loved. our hearts come alive and bring our spirits with them.

i feel like the same thing happens when we love others. it energizes us. we are called to love. we are called to serve. it is a great thing to give to others what we need ourselves.

either way, i have been loved and valued this weekend. it has been good for my soul.

slow down, you move too fast

recently i was watching a bird walk across the lan. the first thought in my head was questioning why the bird was choosing to walk when it could fly. then i realized that it was most likely looking for food. it was looking for the little things. if it had just flown right by, it would have missed so many things, but in choosing to slow down and walk, a whole world opened up to it.

i wonder how often we just fly right by in a hurry to get to the next thing. maybe if we purposefully slowed down, a whole different wonder would be right before our eyes waiting to be enjoyed.

so, you got to make this moment last and you might as well feel groovy.

communication

i'm sitting here in a cafe in downtown lancaster. got some pete yorn coming through my headphones and just enjoying myself. i'm thinking about community and communication. right now i would like nothing more to be conversing with someone and developing a deeper relationship. or maybe even starting a new one. but i'm not.

and i have a feeling that i don't look very approachable either. sitting here, typing on my computer, with headphones in my ears. it would take a remarkably gutsy person to walk up to me and start a conversation. now i am not necessarily trading anything, but i am communicating over the internet. not exactly the closest and deepest form of communication. in fact, a very safe venue.

or is it? see the things is, i seem to expect the same thing out of electronic communication that i do out of face to face. if i say something to you, you will respond because it is how it works, but over the internet it doesn't work that way. we can hide behind our computers and not respond to others. i do it all the time. i'll read an email and then 2 weeks later realize that i haven't responded to this person. not good.

or you have facebook where there may or may not be any communication, but we are looking at other's profiles without interacting with them. that seems even more backwards.

well, although this is the mode i am in now, i can tell you that i would love nothing more than to have that face to face conversation. i think that most of us want that. so what's holding us up?

probably people typing on computers, listening to their headphones.