I have never seen the movie, but I have heard that “The Truman Show” was a movie about a man’s life being a T.V. show. Sometimes it feels like I am living my life as a soap opera. “Days of our Lives” has been taken, but it feels like that very often.

We all live in an ever quickening lifestyle. What used to take days to do, like sending a letter via snail mail, now only requires the pushing of the “enter” key and away it goes. Leftovers had to be reheated in the oven, now it is the microwave. Scientists and engineers are always looking for ways to make things quicker, cheaper and easier.

Let us return to the days of yesteryear and a simpler way of life. When I was a kid, back in the 1900’s, some of my favorite toys were stick guns and bed sheet parachutes. It didn’t take long to learn that a bed sheet parachute did not have enough time to work or enough chute to slow me down when jumping off a ten foot wall. It did take a while to come to grips with what I live day to day and this new thing called sitcoms. Gilligan’s Island was always interesting. Here were these folks out for a three hour tour who then found themselves on this deserted island. Somehow every week professor found some new way to keep things going with a coconut or his divining rod.

Thurston Howell lll and Lovey were trying to maintain there upper crust lifestyle in an thatch roof bamboo hut. Of course they packed ten years worth of cash for a pleasure cruise. Then you have Ginger and Mary Ann as polar opposites sharing their hut while Gilligan is the comic relief. The poor skipper has a major guilt complex and is frequently using Gilligan as a whipping post. Here is how I see this in today’s life.

Life imitates art, right? Well I think so. We watch television shows that take minor problems and fix them in twenty two minutes and still have time for commercials to fill out the half hour. More weighty themes will take and hour to resolve, actually forty-three minutes and the rest of the time for “our sponsors.” If we are not careful we can easily fall into the “sitcom trap!”

I have observed this phenomenon many times. When something happens, I expect that it should be resolved immediately if not sooner. I remember once praying for patience, I was soon given MANY opportunities to gain patience. When I get frustrated with my own growth, I often find it easy to blame someone else for my faults. I know that that last sentence sounded awkward but life turns out that way. Awkwards!

God’s timing is ALWAYS perfect, I admit it is not always convenient by my standards, but He is absolutely never late. I remember this old saying, “Ah, too soon old and yet, not soon enough smart.” Think about this scripture from the B.H.N.V. (Basic Human Nature Version) “Worry about everything but pray about nothing.” Better yet, in Philippians 4: 4-7 it sounds more like this. “Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean revel in Him! …Don’t fret or worry, Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.” Amen. Have a Blessed Easter. Tim