This week I have
spent a bunch of time in doctor’s offices and Memorial hospital. Tuesday was an
all day experience with 3 appointments. I finally got home at 8pm that evening.
One was for me and the other two for my Dad. I have a question. Why do doctors
make appointments and appointment times that have no to correlation to time as
we know it? Hospital and doctors time has little if anything to do with time in
the real world. Yes, I understand emergencies etc. but that is rarely the case.
Of those three appointments Tuesday, only one was on time (the first one) the
other two and we wait…and wait…and wait. Of course I did see the Governor of
Ohio join the horse race for the republican nomination for President but otherwise
it was a bust of time.
Secondly, don’t put one of those
signs at the registration desk that says if you are 15 minutes or more late you
will be…whatever. When I see that I am preparing my bill for the healthcare provider
being 15, 30, 45, 60 minutes late to my appointment. They just look at me but
do you get my point. I am the consumer here. Sure, I don’t know all the ins and
outs of how the business of medicine works. I know people make appointments and
then fail to show up wasting resources (maybe they could catch up with that
time) I may not be certain of all of that but what I do know is I don’t like being
told what to do especially when the issuer of said order fails to follow through.
I like people to say-what-they-mean-and-mean-what-they-say. I think that is universal
to people.
He [Jesus]
spent the day there teaching. They were surprised at his teaching—so
forthright, so confident—not quibbling and quoting like the religion scholars. 23 Suddenly,
while still in the meeting place, he was interrupted by a man who was deeply
disturbed and yelling out…25-26 Jesus shut him up: “Quiet! Get
out of him!” The afflicting spirit threw the man into spasms, protesting
loudly—and got out.27-28 Everyone there was incredulous,
buzzing with curiosity. “What’s going on here? A new teaching that does what it
says? He shuts up defiling, demonic spirits and sends them packing!” Mark 1:21-23,
25-28 The Message
Here it is people amazed, “a new
teaching that does what it says,” go figure. Yet what is also true is you and I
bow up at it if we did not like it or it was hard. We are like that because in
the end we want to be God, all of us. Eve was tempted by the serpent with the forbidden
fruit “you will be like God.” I-want-what-I-want-the-way-I-want-it and guess
what medicine does it like medicine wants it and I don’t like that. Computers
do it like they are programmed and most of the time that is not how we want it.
That is true in our relationship with Jesus. He commands us to love God and
love our neighbor period. And yet, we spend most of our time trying to figure
out how to do that like we want to. We want to be God until the wheels come off
and then it’s ok for God to be God.
I’m
not really crucified with Christ quite yet at least not all of me. My salvation
is a process.
Lord
forgive me/us when I/we fail!
Bro G
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