Too Busy for What?
Comments (0) “And he was saying, ‘Jesus remember me when you
come in your kingdom.’”
Luke 23:42 (NIV)
Most, if not all of us have been busy doing something and someone started to talk to us. We have found their speech an interruption to our concentration on the task we were performing. Perhaps we simply ignore the person’s chatter. Then, we might find their speaking to be extremely irritating as we must turn to answer them and lose our focus on the work we were trying to do.
On another occasion we might be in great pain and we wish for a quiet, dark room to lie very still and not be disturbed. If someone interrupts our peaceful situation we easily become angry with them and ask them to go away. Trying to cope with pain that is severe is hard work and requires all of our concentration. Any interruption however small is very hard to accept.
Then, if we are interrupted at the time we are in dreadful pain and the person asks us to help them with something we may respond in a fury of words. We wonder why they cannot see how difficult our circumstances are, and they do not seem to understand that we need help. Why should we give someone else help when we are so desperate for assistance ourselves?
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