Comments on: Debriefing Our Lives

By: Etty

Etty — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:48:05 +0000

Thats not just logic. Thats really senislbe.

By: Cami

Cami — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:11:25 +0000

Wow, thats a really ceelvr way of thinking about it!

By: marilyn

marilyn — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:57:31 +0000

Jayne – I am glad you are writing … and you are dealing here with one of the most debilitating elements of modern life – if we were to stop would we fall apart? Is our speed holding us together somehow? Just wondering with you ….

By: Shanna

Shanna — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:41:07 +0000

So I googled “song titles with time” and discovered pages of them. The most precious thing we have to offer is our time. We talk about it. We sing about it. We wish for more of it to keep and to give away. The most costly thing we can throw away is our minutes. (There is some great phone commercials on that topic! Keeping the unused minutes at the end of a month!) We are connected to time. We live life in reference to it. We can give it away and we can waste it. We can enjoy it and we can hate the passing of it. We can miss it when it is gone and we can pretend that we have all the minutes and hours in the future that we want. We can think that there is time tomorrow or next week. But we are constantly losing it. We are always spending it. And there is no way to add to the balance sheet.

And really all we actually have is this moment. And God called us to redeem it! Interesting call. God is redeeming all of creation. And he called us to redeem the time. It is truly the only way that we can “get it back.” Redeem the moment you have with an act borne of God’s direction and it will be an eternal moment.

All of the rest of creation bears God’s mark. But time he made for us. God exists outside of it. But he gave to us the precious gift of time and the consciousness of time passing. When you have few dollars, they are each precious and important. And we think about how we are going to spend them. So should it be with time. We have a limited number of moments. They are precious and important. Redeeming the time. Sometimes that is just loving on your family. Sometimes it is sleep. Sometimes it is learning. Sometimes it is smelling the flowers in a meadow you have never been in. But it is always doing something in obedience to the Father who loves us. Now, about applying that to rebellion……

By: Shanna

Shanna — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:07:00 +0000

Life can leave us breathless.

Even the military spends time debreiefing after each mission – the first step in letting go whether the mission was successful or a dismal failure. (Which kinda reminds me of Sister Marcie…..)

This is why I love rainy days. I think they remind me to slow down. For some reason, I can stop and take a breath when it is raining out. It is easier to let go of the madness that consumes me and pushes me onward.

I am so gald you blogged on this topic. We are such a poor society. And not even sure of what we lost. Just hamsters on a wheel sometimes. Even if that wheel is the church and God’s work.

Some disjointed comments!

By: Gary Diehl

Gary Diehl — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:47:44 +0000

There is so much important stuff to chew on in McNeal’s new book. Thanks for picking one of the ideas that, for me, has constantly hit home. Redeeming the time. I (we?) can get so busy “doing” for God that we miss BEING with the Father who created and knows us fully, the Son who loves us extravagantly, and the Spirit who whispers guidance, peace, assurance, and hope to us so faithfully. Perhaps intentional times of debriefing become the better things that need to replace a few of those good things we “do” to feel a sense of accomplishment…