APRIL 12 “THE BUSIEST GENERATION”

They say this is the busiest generation that ever lived. Today's average adult functions at the same pace of a corporate CEO of 20 years ago. We have schedules for schedules, the day is filled with multi-tasking and there is rarely any down time. And work is more stressful, more demanding than ever before. We are producing more productivity at work with less employees. Families are further apart yet we are still maintaining contact through added travel. Road trips are constant, sporting events never ending, games, fund raising and tournaments. Everything work, family and church event seems to be mandatory, pressure to attend the extravaganza, hyped up birthday parties for 5 year olds, never seems to end. Bar-mitzvah, kindergarten graduation parties, that seem like post graduate school celebrations. The pre-bridal shower to the real bridal shower to the wedding shower to the wedding practice to the wedding ceremony to the, gender reveal, to the baby shower to the welcoming home shower. The staff parties to the staff meetings to the work luncheons, teacher's conference, meet and greet at school, graduations, ceremony practices, church group meetings, church services, church board meetings, church home group studies. Out of town family visits, business trips, family vacations, community functions, camping trips, dinner engagements to Zumba , TYBO and cardio all at 6. Men's retreats, woman's retreats, family retreats, marriage retreats, get-a-way from the retreats retreat, cruise ship get-a-ways, school field trips, church youth field trips, Christmas Banquets, Thanksgiving parties, must show banquets. College, work and second jobs, concerts and big ticket sporting events all around to attend. Amusement parks and summer vacations, spring vacations, Valentine's Day vacations, I saw the ground hog vacation, CHRISTMAS vacations, mardi-gras celebrations, New Year's Eve celebrations. Dinner there and lunch meetings here. Laundry to be picked up there, kids to be dropped off, kids to be picked up, grandchildren to watch and the list never ends. The phone never shuts up and the car engine never cools off. The malls are always full, the gas stations always crowded, it's go go go, ' till I can go no more. Your texts are screaming at you, your voice mail is beeping at you and your phone is ringing' all at the same time. This is the busiest generation that has ever lived. We would only dream of having a life so easy of what a corporate CEO had 20 years ago that he or she, actually thought was a frantic pace, that any adult and even some teens today, would hardly consider hectic. We are the busiest generation that has ever lived.

If Jesus told his generation over 2000 years ago that many would fall away by the cares and distractions of this life, what in the world, would Jesus ever say, to the busiest generation that has ever inhabited planet earth?


Richard P Swift

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