Seriously?

I've always been told that I am so serious. At times I wish I could be the life of the party like Dylan, my son. He is always cracking jokes, looking for an adventure, waiting for the opportunity to have a party. He doesn't take much in life seriously.

I am always deep in thought even when I sleep. I look back through my posts and see that few of them are less than serious. I don't read fiction or magazines that are trivial for the most part. When I read, it is for a specific purpose; a parenting book, a marriage book, a spiritual growth book, a devotional book, the Bible. I do read the news on the internet, however that is depressing and futile at best. If you want to make yourself depressed, read the news. I figure it is better than watching reruns of the same thing over and over. It is important that I stay current and know what is going on around me but I don't want to be consumed with the media's twisted perspective on the most current political debate.

I look around and see that most of what happens in life is serious. People around me are getting laid off, changing jobs, going for medical testing, getting cancer treatments, taking their child to emergency for stitches, or sitting in the hospital with their child fighting pneumonia. Life happens!

Do you ever wish you could go back in time, free from responsibilities, free from wondering when the next event will happen? Life experiences dampers the carefree life of our past. I wish at times I could be carefree, yet at the beginning of the year I asked God to teach me what it meant to love my neighbor as myself. Loving means sharing in the lives of others.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 Says it all:

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything,
 and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die

        a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3    a time to kill and a time to heal,

    a time to tear down and a time to build,

4   a time to weep and a time to laugh,

    a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5  a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

6    a time to search and a time to give up,

     a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7    a time to tear and a time to mend,

    a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8    a time to love and a time to hate,

    a time for war and a time for peace.

¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

If you read many of these verses they are serious. While God created me to be serious and have a compassionate heart for others, I'm thinking I need to take some lessons from my son and lighten up. Maybe I need to learn how to dance...