Simplicity

      Naturally, I have a very complex way of looking at things, and processing things. Sometimes, it gets SO complex it becomes too complicated for me to think about. I begin to forget details, confuse different points, and it simply becomes a mess. I sometimes feel like I'm working on a project with too many rules and guidelines to even remember...and I become flustered.
     I wish I could always keep things simple, instead of complicating things, and making a mess. Wouldn't it be so nice if society was simple, too? Instead of always having to sort out messes that shouldn't have been made? I wonder if society has always been complicated, in one way or another. According to some, the age we live in now is the most complicated because of technology. But is it really? Is it possible that society has always been complicated in it's own way? Society during the Middle Ages must have had it's own complexity, just as modern day society does. The complications may not be the exact same, but the same amount of complexity in societies has always been around.
     Wouldn't it be nice to find the core reasons of over complications? Then potentially go back to the basics in society? Could that possibly relieve some stress on today's modern population?

Going Through the Motions

      One year I had an English teacher who gave us a project. We were allowed to do anything we wanted, as long as it involved a book that he accepted. Our teacher never gave us a due date. So, naturally, almost no one worked on the project at all. Three months later, our teacher said that the projects were due in a week. Whoa! No one had even read their book yet. What were we to do?? ...a week later everyone handed in their projects. Some were amazing, and some.. Not so much. Those who had done the work from the beginning, without knowing the deadline, reaped the better results. Isn't it just the same in life?
      Ecclesiastes 8:8a tells us that no one knows when their time will on earth will end. Some will live anticipating death... going through the motions. And yet some will live life to the fullest, knowing that death could just be around the corner, or far away. Those who live life to the fullest, following God's will for them, will reap the reward. They won't hold off until they know when their time on earth is almost through. Those who anticipate death coming, and go through the motions..may just find themselves scrambling to try and live when.. IF.. they find out their time is almost over. So doesn't it seem much more logical to live life to the fullest starting NOW?