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Winds Of Change (PART I)
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February 25th, 2010
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By Greg Tutwiler, CCLC, BCPC
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My oldest son and I had an interesting chat on the way to school one day this week. After a typical morning of pushing the alarm clock to the last possible minute, fumbling through a "wake-up" shower, and tripping over each other on the way out the door; he turned to me and said, "I don't think people were made to get up this early." I considered his comment recalling my own disdain for the early AM hours and said, "maybe we weren't created to go to bed so late." He cracked a smile and said, "I guess that makes more sense," and we launched into a brief but thoughtful conversation about how life used to be back then, and how rapidly things have changed for our culture.
Electricity has been a commodity readily available to average consumers for only about 100 years. If we just consider that we've been in this country just a little shy of 400 years, that means that most of life here in America has been without this modern convenience. The first home computer didn't come into existence until about 30 years ago. Now, practically everything we use today is effected by computers. We are living in an age of exponential change; and a time where it's likely that the church of Xbox has more teen members than all the Christian youth groups combined.
We've been drastically blown off course by the winds of change. It wasn't long ago that you went to bed with the cows, and got up with the chickens. Life was harder, yes, but more calm, and there was more time for solitude and appreciation for the Spirit within. Now we have national department stores that stay open 24/7, and drinks and pills that can help us stay awake days at a time. We have more people in society on anxiety and depression medications than ever before; pills that didn't even exist until the 1950s. The widely popular Prozac wasn't even invented until 1987. We've played right into the enemy's hand. We have seemingly more time, yet less authentic life.
I'm not trying to advocate a return to the stone age, rather, help us understand that much like the grass in my hometown that has been missing for the past three months because of the huge piles of culminated snow; we have been covered over by the cumulative fast paced change of society, and the need to keep up with the folks around us. We have been tempted and drawn into things that look and seem important; lured by tastes, and smells, and buried under desire for fun and pleasure. While progress and growth is inevitable and arguably necessary; somewhere in the process many have lost touch with their true inner compass that is essential for navigation through this powerful ocean we call life. We have more things in life than ever before, and we have less of God than ever before.
Where do you find yourself in this scenario? Are you caught up in the pace, adding to the chaos, or do you feel like you've gotten above the flow of the worldly stream?
Part II (A Path For My Feet) Continues Tomorrow
Greg Tutwiler, CCLC, BCPC |
Greg Tutwiler is a Certified Christian Life Coach (CCLC) by the Professional Christian Coaching and Counseling Academy, a Board Certified Pastoral Counselor (BCPC) by the International Board of Christian Counselors (IBCC), a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), an Affiliate Coach, Certified Discipleship Coach and Coach Trainer with Blueprint For Life Institute, and an ordained minister with the Trinity Institute of Christian Counseling and The United New Testament Church. Greg is co-pastor of TrueLife Church, founder of the Kingdom Life Institute, and is a trained Theophostic Prayer Minister. He is also author of the book, Stand Your Ground, available at Amazon.com, and the new books Passages, and The Transformational Life Journal . He is author and publisher of www.ChristianLifePerspectives.com, and www.DiscoveringTheLife.com. You can visit his web site at www.freedomliving.org, or email him at coach@freedomliving.org.
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