People who need people

The current social distancing and quarantine stay-at-home guidelines are creating a unique situation. We are, at least most of us,  are social creatures.  We are designed to be in community and interacting with one another. As technology has encroached on us, we seemed to get a little distant from each other. Downtown shopping was replaced by the mall, and the mall was replaced by home shopping.  A few brick and mortar places still are going, ie. Sam's, Walmart, etc. But they are usually not conducive to social interactions other than a brief greeting.

Local pubs, coffee houses, sports venues, and eateries pretty much were the only touchpoints we had.  The church was our only place for some of us. Now they are on hiatus. 

As much as video teleconferencing and the like can bridge the gap, it will never replace the human face-to-face interface.

We may come out of this needing to return to the meeting places and gathering spots even more than before. But we may find out we never liked people that close anyway. We'll see.

Uncharted waters

This Coronavirus pandemic has us entering into worldwide uncharted waters. Sure there have been catastrophes, wars, and famine during the history if the world. Our older generations lived through Two World Wars with a Great Depression in between. But this latest worldwide pandemic has plunged us into a very new and untested period of history.

The interconnected planet we now inhabit is as flat as ever. No, I'm am not being literal about a flat earth, I am being figurative. We traverse the globe and are interconnected by technology faster and more rapidly than ever before.

All this to say that with all the advancements, we are still people who are as flawed human beings as we have been since, "The Fall." I know that evil has been restrained as far as we haven't annihilated ourselves yet. But if shortages and scarcities abound, the dark side of humanity will rear its ugly head.

Let's pray for God's intervention and do our part to be part of the cure rather than the disease in the metaphorical sense.

What, me worry?

As a kid, I adored Mad Magazine. The cover was adorned by the freckle face gappy toothed Alfred E. Newman. Most issues had the tag line underneath his picture, saying, "What, me worry?" I think this was popular because in the 60's we had a lot to worry about. There was the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Racial tensions were mounting, and political assignations were right here at home in the U.S.A.

I am reminded of those times as I look at today's headlines. We are panicking over a potential health pandemic. I don't know, nor does anyone else, how bad it could get.

We need discernment and prudence during this time. It is not unprecedented, but we have a current group of folks that never lived through tough times and real disasters. The younger people have no perspective on genuine hardship, in my opinion. Not that we "boomers" had it that bad either.

I pray we don't see the worst in each other. Already hoarders, looters, and price gougers are showing the fallen side of humankind. If we are getting insane over toilet paper, we are on the slippery slope to anarchy and chaos.

The upside of this is that we are getting our perspective on sports corrected, (they are not that important) in the grand scheme of things.

I have no reason to be flippant. I am pushing that age where iI should have more concern about the adverse effects on my health. I am not worried. I believe that whatever is transpiring is totally under God's control. He has got this. He says so many times in his Word that we are NOT to worry. It doesn't mean we are immune from all life's problems, but HE will see us through.  I know the skeptics' think I am nieve, but I have lived long enough and seen enough to know that the God of this Universe has his plans. We have prayer and a good God. What more do we want?

Pandemics or panic attacks?

 My favorite line in the movie, "Men in Black" is when K is talking to J. "
 Jay: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
- Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it."

Well, if ever that is true, it's as accurate as an alien battlecruiser is ready to obliterate humanity as when we see in the real world today the panic over the Coronavirus.

Should we be worried yes, but the news media has gotten the average person so worked up, one would think we are on the eve of total annihilation.

Death is right around the corner for every one of us. We should put our trust in our Creator and read His revealed word to us in the Bible. Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Solid Rock.

Those that assign us, believers, to a group of superstitious rubes, had better check their world view.  I read the book and know how it ends.  Even if my end comes before the end of the world, I am ready.  You know what's coming death, and you better plan an exit strategy.

Jack of all trades

I used to call myself a "Jack of all trades," I quit because of the standard error that most people hold about that quote. They continue the quote by saying, "Master of none." Well, that is not the original quote. The original citation is. Jack of all trades, master of BUT NOT ONE." People like Renaissance men, nowadays known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. American forefathers Jefferson, Franklin, and the like, were all skilled in a variety of subjects. It wasn't until the age of specialization tool hold in the 1950s that knowledge and technology were exploding so fast that is became impossible to keep up. The age of specialization forced one into a niche. No longer were we able to be an inch deep and a mile wide in or specialties fields, we had to be a mile deep and an inch wide. 

Specialization created many problems. No longer was one generalist able to keep up with multiple disciplines without falling behind the specialists that they were soon so far apart, the gap was impossible to bridge. 

Enter the internet. Now one can keep up with a multiple number of subjects if your brain hasn't been trapped inside the box of specialization.

Expanded knowledge is the future. Those able to grasp and process the vast and widening range of skills will survive (until the machines take over). Scott Adams, in his book, "How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big," describes the modern "Jack of all trades" as talent stacking. Read that book for a fuller explanation

. https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still

I am glad that I was allowed to pursue many different careers that allowed me to exercise many different skills and skillsets and not get trapped in a narrow silo. I was too curious about too many different things.

Now the downside to all this across discipline learning is that at any given moment, you can be overwellmed. If one particular filed gets too far away from you, that catch up can be daunting. I am not saying here that I have a Ph.D. or even a bachelor's degree in multiple fields of study or skill sets. However, I am a life long learner and an avid reader.  
I am proud of having achieved a satisfactory level in the fields of business development, management, sales, marketing, I.T., social media, and mentoring/training.  

I feel I am very proficient in Theology. Although this falls into a whole other area of the modern world, it never did to the Renaissance Men or Founding Fathers. I am proud to have read throught the Bible in 40 different English translations. I understand and keep up with this area of study as if my life depends on it! My eternal destiny sure does! I am working hard to develop my Christian walk, my gentlemanly behavior, and my contribution to society as a whole. I hope to continue to grow as long as I am here on this earth. I am currently, among other things learning New Testament Greek and app programming. 

Next is to get my podcast off the ground. Now every day is exciting because every day there is something new to learn.

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