We went to the dinner theater last night to see the production of Oklahoma on stage. We’ve seen it before, several times, but that’s one of those classics that you just go see from time to time just to make sure someone didn’t change the script. Sis came along with us and we had a good time at the show.
Those kinds of times are important in life, I think. No, it isn’t important that we go to the dinner theater once in a while. What is important is that we do something together, whether just the two of us, or whether someone else comes along, that is different and out of the routine. God meant for us to have the abundant life and when He said that, He didn’t mean abundant possessions. In fact, the Good Book says that Jesus said, “Take care! Protect yourself against the least bit of greed. Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot.”
Even in the days of Jesus, people took time off from the everyday and routine to celebrate weddings, gather for common meals, observe holidays, etc. They seemed to truly enjoy those times and came together in common unity for the purpose of celebration and fellowship. Their times of celebration sometimes lasted several days, with food in abundance and all manner of conversation, laughter, and merriment.
We miss something in our sterile world of cubicle houses, cubicle transportation, and cubicle work environment. The cubicle mentality (isolation) stifles us and defeats any chance we have for true interaction and enjoyment of one-another. We have to work to break down the cubicles and allow true fellowship to occur.
That’s worth doing.
2 comments:
I really like this entire post, especially the last paragraph. Interaction is the one thing that really makes life great, and when we're deprived of that, everything gets just a little more bleak. Spontaneous conversation, that's where life is lived.
It is sad to see so many people content in their cubicles. What is sadder - they don't even know what they are missing.
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