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"Life and Newtonian Law"

8/6/2019

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As you know by now,    life is not lived in a vacuum.

Our lives are affected not only by our own decisions but    also by outside forces, be they for, against or ambivalent    to us. Everyone from the neighbors (whose first names we   can’t remember) to family members living in our own   homes can change the course of   our day. 

An emergency phone call.

 A juicy bit of gossip. 
A complaint about something.
 
An email. You know, one    of those emails.

 A request for immediate assistance.
 A passive-aggressive text message.
 An invitation.

It can become day after day of frustration to think about   how off-center from your own objectives you can get when   you consider all of the external impact others make into   your life.   
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Unless…

The interruptions are the point.

C.S. Lewis once wrote this to a friend.

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the   unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending   one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination.”

(from a 1943 letter from C.S. Lewis, included in Yours,   Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis)

Perhaps the interruptions, the outside impact of others inour own lives, is the point of life. What if the best future forus as humans is to continue to evolve into the potential   community we are best designed to live in?

How many times has your life been changed because ofthe interruption you caused in someone else’s life? Whenyou collided your journey with someone else, how did you   change? Even in less than ideal situations, hasn’t each   encounter made you smarter, stronger, better for what you   experienced and went through? 

 As   you  move  with  haste  and  purpose  through  this  week,   
here’s to your next collision with someone else’s life,   whether you initiate it or they do. May your impact upon   one another be seen less as a burden, and more as a way   the universe has bent into our favor. We are our best   selves when we live with each other. We can best learn to   create harmony only when we are near enough to each   other to see each other closely.

Here’s to Newtonian Law working in our lives.

Dave
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Associate Pastor @ North Scottsdale United Methodist   Church
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