Monthly Archives: April 2009

Burned out on technology that teaches

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It’s Wednesday night – Family Night at church -  and I’m looking for any excuse not to go.

Book of Revelation. Good, meaty theology there. But I still don’t want to go to Bible study tonight and it’s nothing against John or end times prophesy.

It’s the DVDs. Not the message – the method. I’m tired of watching DVDs. Sitting, listening, listening to a lecture. I don’t want a monologue, especially one where the preacher whips it out at a rapid fire pace leaving no room for his audience to breathe.

I don’t want to go. No lecture tonight, no more non-interactive DVDs.

Give me the fellowship and back-and-forth dialog with a real person.

I feel badly for Pastor. It must be easier for him to just pop in a DVD than prepare a lesson each Wednesday. He’s okay, but I suspect he’s content to let Famous Preacher Man share all his Revelation knowledge with us.

Too bad it’s via one dimensional media.

I’d much rather go for a drive tonight; think I will. Maybe I’ll go to the mall and walk around. I can’t bear sitting tonight…

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Postscript:

I journaled this an hour before leaving for church yesterday with all intentions of escaping after dropping off the family. Never happened. Too much guilt: “The kids and Doc are here, so I can’t just leave.” Too much fear of being judged.

Maybe you are judging me now too.

I love being at church, I love the Word, and great teaching and preaching. Being with my second family. But like I wrote above, sometimes those DVDs… I’m home all day with the kids and as much as I love Twitter and social media, I crave human interaction. You don’t get a lot of that with a DVD. No, you don’t get any interaction from a DVD.

I did stay. I listened. I learned a few things I didn’t know before. I’m thankful for all that.

Yet I can’t wait for this DVD series to be over. Maybe I’ll start praying for the player to break. You never know – perhaps the Lord is tired of it too.

Do you have a bucket list?

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So.

I’m 40 years old now.

40. I’ve been mulling over this number, and what it means, all day. Like I said before, I don’t feel 40, an age I thought ancient many years ago. Now it’s just a number that comes after 39.

Part of all this reflection has to do with death, my own mortality, and what I want to do with the rest of my life, assuming I have at least another 40 years to live on this earth. Before the Lord calls me home or Jesus comes back, I’ve got a few things I want to get done.

So this is the beginning of my bucket list – you know, all the things you want to accomplish before you die.

This is what I have so far:

1. Be the best Me I can be: Christ follower, wife, mom, home schooler, obsessive blogger (ha!), etc. I realize this is a bit on the vague side; hopefully I be able to sort this out with practical steps with more thought. One thing I do know: “Not sweating the small stuff in life” is kind of where I’m going with this.

2. Write… something. The desire to write a novel has given way to a hope that I can compose something of more eternal significance. Still chewing on this too. I have ideas that I need to work out.

3. Learn Spanish. I’ve noticed more Spanish speaking folk around town and we have more in our fellowship. I’ve always been fascinated with other languages, but so far have lacked the discipline to get another language to stick. All of my Bahasa Indonesia has gone dormant. Maybe if I can accomplish Spanish, I’ll take on the Bahasa Indonesia.

That’s it as of today, Day One of 40 years. Do you have a bucket list? Please share.