"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" John Lennon
Please join me every Sat for discussions on stuff...
Saturday Stuff-It Chronicles have, since inception, typically been about objects-stuff...items, products...but what other definitions are there for "stuff"? www.Dictionary.com outlines verb-stuff...
stuff
verb (used with object)
- to fill (a receptacle), especially by packing the contents closely together; cram full.
- to fill or cram (oneself, one's stomach, etc.) with food.
- to fill (meat, vegetables, etc.) with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter.
We can stuff our stuff with stuff, stuff our bodies with stuff, and even stuff stuffing into our stuffy stomachs...the latter bringing drool-y responses to images of fat, moist chunks of breadcrumbs browned in turkey orifices...And to think it's only 345 until the next Canadian Thanksgiving! [Did you know that at www.daysuntil.com you can find out how long it is until just about any holiday occurs??? Though a bit of mathematics was necessary in this instance because apparently only American Thanksgiving counts as the true holiday.]
Among the many things we North Americans can really lay claim to red ribbons for being (you know: brazen over consumers, greedy, and obese among the ranks) is calendar-stuffers. Crammers. How much can we compress into our lives before we explode, or implode?
How much stuff can we stuff into our daytimers? How many things do we think are physically possible to crush into our lives?
I find Debbie Mielewski's article entitled "How to Cram a Life into Your Crazy Schedule" How do you give enough to your job and your kids (without cutting out important stuff like, say, sleep)?
www.webmd.com and I cringe so deeply I nearly knock myself out of our roll-y desk chair. Not that I am condoning the stuffing full of our lives but should we not be cramming things into our LIFE rather than vice versa? Is not our life the framework? The basis to which we add the bonuses?
What bargains and trades are we making? How do they affect our lives? Our families? Our spiritual time with the Lord?
Why? For what? For ulcers and tension headaches and high blood pressure and oodles of tums and tylenol and other such "relief" fighting for space in our medicine cabinets?
Janet Luhrs in her book The Simple Living Guide shares
Why are we so afraid of discovering US? (As in "us" not as in the US!)
Try this experiment: quit stuffing stuff into stuff ...cram into your life one hour - one measly hour - with absolutely nothing planned...and see how you feel? What happened? Did the world explode? Implode? Did YOU?
"Be still and know that I am God" Psalm 46:10
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