Herding Cats

I like this advert a lot: 

I guess life feels like this for lots of us lots of the time. If you are reading this blog (nice to have you!) you are almost certainly a cat herder. Tech is great, but I could spend my whole life reading blogs, twittering and surfing YouTube. On my more distracted days trying to get some thoughts straight and meaningful work accomplished feels like herding cats – a twitch here, a mouse there and suddenly I’m off task and wasting time again.

Technology is conditioning us to have the attention span of a kitten.

“More than 140 characters? Not interested. LOL”

This ad is pretty cool as well: 

Life is like that – it’s the little things that will drag you down. Just another SMS, just one more email…

“Hey, where’s Jesus gone?!”

All this technology can give me a spiritual headache. I need to get out into the clean cool air, and walk with Jesus.

For me this is literally as well as metaphorically true. And its one of several reasons why I like this time of year – longer days mean I need less sleep and can get up earlier, and that means more time out in the cool clean air when no-one else much is around and I can walk and talk with my Lord.

I don’t know why I don’t do it every single day, even in the winter. When I don’t, that cat herding just gets all the worse and the squirrels tear at my ankles all the more. 

But then I’ve got two dogs, and they’re not so keen on cats and squirrels. Dogs make it easier to get up and walk – they make you do it. And if people hear you talking while you’re walking they think you’re talking to the dogs, which is ok, because if they knew you were praying they’d think you were mad.

Get a dog and go for a walk.

You’d be mad not to.

(Hey, even you Americans can walk you know. You weren’t born with wheels!)

iPod, iPhone, iTunes, iDol, iDon’tKnow

Turn it off.

Walk.

Talk.

Pray.

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