Overwhelmed

Today Griffin and I were playing with the two bins of MegaBlocks my mother-in-law picked up from a garage sale. We were kinda just messing around, stacking small columns and building odd-shaped stacks. Sometimes its just fun to have no agenda and no plan.

Then I had a bright idea. I thought it would be fun if we built a tower, 2 blocks deep by four blocks wide. We started to build and Griffin would hand me blocks and I would continue to stack them. Sometimes he would take bits of the tower apart and bring them to another part of the living room and build little odd structures, but I just kept on building. Soon the tower of power out grew Griffin, then it got to the point where I now longer had to lean let alone bend over in order to stack the blocks. The tower grew taller and taller. I was on a mission to use every block in the two bins and get the tower as high as we could, as high as I could.

Griffin lost interest.

As soon as the tower rose too far for Griffin to reach the top, he was done, that is until he found out how much fun it was to tear my labor of love down into pieces. I know my my mother-in-law didn't buy these blocks for me, yet I took what Griffin and I were playing with together and started in on my own agenda. Our tower became my tower.

Right now I feel like Griffin. Life seems to be getting bigger and bigger and its not that I'm losing interest, but I'm getting overwhelmed. I don't want the feeling of being face to face with something so over my head to trigger apathy or worse yet abandonment. Maybe its the weather, maybe its the tasks at hand. Maybe its God moving us in another direction, to another group. Whatever it may be, I'm glad this blog will help trace the steps we're walking through.

For the ears: They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon) - Sufjan Stevens
For the mind: The Five Points of Calvinism - Edwin Palmer
For the heart: Knowing God - J.I. Packer