The Things I Think About

At the funeral for my grandfather the pastor made the comment and I heard it from many other people, that my grandfather was still so young when he died. He was 81 years old and had great-grandchildren. Yes, 81 is not equivalent to 100, but 81 is a lot closer to a full life than 18 is. Our years on this earth are numbered and there is nothing that we can actually do about it. I always tend to say "God will take us home when our work on this earth is done". When we have nothing further to prove on this earth it is our time to go home.

This brings me to my second thought, the wonder that we have with health food. I wonder what people 100 years ago worried about. Now we have people wanting to live forever on this earth so they are promoting food that is raised with no hormones or is allowed to eat whatever it wants. If we told people that lived 100 years ago that we were going to eat only organic would they just look at us like we were crazy? Of course, it is possible that they would not have to think about those things because there were no chemicals. I don't honestly know.

Like today on a lazy day, what did people used to do on days when they had nothing else to do? I have grown up with television, so I tend to turn to television when I get bored. But before television what did people do? Perhaps they actually talked to each other?

Am I actually saying that I want to live in a different time period? Not really, but I just wonder how things were different. For instance, yet again, we have the internet. The internet has changed how we do a lot of things. The internet puts us in direct contact with people all the way around the world in an instant. We can successfully find out news on the internet before people in those countries may know about it. This can be a problem, though, since there truly is no privacy anymore. Yet again, just something that I was thinking about.

An Update

I just noticed that it has been two months since I updated my blog. The last post that I had was regarding the loss of my grandfather. Therefore, that is where this one will pick up from.
I went back to Illinois for the funeral. I knew that the time would be coming, so I was kind of anticipating it. I think it was really good for my mom to have all her children back home. It is always hard to lose people in life, but if you are surrounded by people you love and who love you I think the pain is lessened. The time at home was good, but was sad based on the circumstances.
The pastor at New Life has started a new series on the book of Hebrews. Some of the sermons hit me really hard and they don't hit other people at all. It is amazing that that can actually happen. With the College and Career group at NL we are going through The PeaceMaker still and it is causing me to do a lot of thinking. Do I really have a list of people that I am utterly trying to avoid at all costs? I tend to think not, but there are always those people that we don't consider that we have hurt. I will try to think harder about this in the future. This past week we went through a chapter about confronting your brother. It is interesting to see reactions when you confront someone because a lot of time they become standoffish. This should not be the behavior we are to take, though. If I have done something wrong I want someone to tell me. However, I guess, most people are not like this and they think that you are personally attacking them if you want to resolve an issue. I think it is just human nature.
The last thing that really comes to mind is what all surrounds the death of my grandpa. I have to applaud my mother for maintaining her composure through this all. She has done most of the cleaning out of the house but really has nothing to show for it. One day the rest of my family showed up and pretty much took everything they wanted, no matter if it was actually on their lists or not. I am realizing that greed reigns supreme in this world. I got a set of pots out of the deal, but that was it. My dad went to repair the garage door the other day and couldn't do it because all the ladders and all the tools were gone. We learned how much my grandpa's car collection (5 cars from the 50's and 60's) was worth and I was quite shocked. However, not all the cars are allowed to be sold because one of my aunts wants two of the cars. Message to people reading this blog: Word your will strongly to avoid having greed reign supreme!