intersting thought progressions

'Do you love me? Then feed my sheep.'

Interesting.

As children we evaluate people by how much time they spend with us. I see you all the time, therefore you must be my friend. Yet, the way we lose friendships at that age has the same volatility, do this or i won't be your friend anymore.

By the time we are older, we've designated a plethora of arbitrary guidelines of things we look for in friends. Fair enough too, not everyone can be friends with everyone. It takes a special someone, someone with skills. Someone like Jesus maybe, and yet, he was not friends with every one.

So how is that we often expect to be friends with everyone? Its impossible, we offend to many of them without even really trying. So then what are we to do? Basically, be a friend to those we can be, to the best of our ability and love the others just as much, if not more so. Imagine Peter, back in the day. When Jesus asked him if he loved Him and then He replied 'feed my sheep', what would have gone through Peter's mind? 'I'm a blinking fisherman, what the heck would I know about feeding sheep'?

Sometimes we care too much, say too little and offend too seldom. We should be building those around us, teaching each other about life and all its wonder. We weren't put on this earth just for the hell of it. We are here to do something, so we may as well help each other out along the way. We need to be open to the input of others that we admire and trust, and also be willing to return the favour. Trying not to get too excited and go on a offensive spree of telling everyone and anyone what their faults are, but knowing where the bounds are and sticking to them.

'Feed my sheep'.

This world is becoming a world of speed. How fast can we do things? How soon can it be done? Hello, goodbye, in the same breath. Who did you last spend quality time with? By quality i mean, did you gain something from it? Anything, no matter how insignificant it might seem? It is becoming apparent that this generation is indeed becoming the "single serve" friend generation. No longer do people have time for others, so they have a standard set of conversation starters, continuers and stoppers that they like to pull out at any one time. What ever happened to caring about what the answers are? Stop using formulaic questions. Care. The rest will follow.

Jesus didn't get followers because he was the coolest person around at the time, it was because he loved those around Him. So easy to forget in a fast paced neo-globalistic world, how to be there for people. Shallowness abounds everywhere, get over it, learn to swim. Its about time you fed some sheep.

hmmm.