What's the Hurry?

One of my favorite shows is the "reality" show, "The Amazing Race". If you are unfamiliar with it, it is a show where two-person teams race around the world completing tasks/challenges while trying to avoid last place in each leg of the race as the last place team usually gets eliminated. The team that can survive all the way to the end and cross the finish line first wins $1 million. In one of the tasks this week, teams were to decode a series of phrases they had been given which had matching symbols and then find and circle those symbols all in a row among a huge wall of matching and non-matching symbols. In other words, a large word search but using symbols/characters instead of English letters. The task wasn't very hard as long as you were able to determine which symbols you were looking for and were methodical in finding the right string of symbols. Only one team was able to complete this task!

Why are we in such a hurry all the time? Everything has to be right now. Remember back when the Internet was first getting started and dial-up was amazing? Now we get upset if our phone doesn't pull up a web page immediately. And who wants to bother with making a phone call on their cell phone anymore when you can just send a text in the amount of time it would take to dial the phone in the first place. Life is moving at light speed these days and we seldom stop long enough to do much of anything other than move on to the next thing.

The teams on the show were doing some silly, even stupid, things because they didn't stop long enough to figure out what they needed to do. What are you missing from being in such a hurry? Time with your spouse or kids, details falling through the cracks, connection with friends and family, connection to God. This week, I encourage you to stop for a little bit, talk to God and even more importantly listen to Him.