Multi-tasking

I firmly believe that multi-tasking and 24-7 are ideas from Satan--to keep us from being still and knowing God and knowing our family.

Sunday's paper carried an article about how our culture is becoming a child-dominated society in which parents spend as many as 18 hours a day carrying children hither and yon.

Kim and Gary Zeiss are keeping their children busy by design. They believe it's a key to being a successful adult in a culture that rewards multi-taskers. "You know the old saying, 'If you want something done, give it to a busy person.' They are learning how to be that." A typical Monday for the family has four or five after- school- events. They are in constant touch by cell-phone, Blackberry and pager.
They get together for dinner on Monday, but not until the son returns from fencing practice (now that's a life-time skill) at`10:30 p.m.

My parents would say hogwash to such stuff. When my Dad returned home (we had only one car), he was too tired to go anywhere else. When my brothers began playing sports, we did go to Little League games, football, etc., but never lessons of any kind. We did homework, finished chores, and played outside.

Lord, forgive us for avoiding you with busyness and going out of our way to find other things to do than to be still and know you.