details

I make list after list after list. Apparently theses lists have value,and at least they help me sleep at night. There is some encouragement that with lists, the day of nothing will pass by in some form of productivity. And that every single one of the 19 individual cover letter's I have typed could be a potential job. Or that one of the phone calls I make will put money in my pocket instead of taking money out.
But truly, is that the purpose of all things? I struggle with justifying the details. I have no greater purpose at the moment then to write lists, and to turn those lists into cover letters and phone calls. But why? For what end? And with what purpose?
I simply want to love God and her creation! So why must I put fingers to keyboard and ink on mechanically digested trees in the homes of taking printed value from one system and investing it in another? What good is that? And where does it actually lead?
The details seem pointless. The process is an endless chase of frustration. Each hope crushed by the empty inbox and silent telephone. And what are the hopes for anyway? How can I love God in the details?

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  1. EnnsplaceMay 16, 2010 at 7:41 AM

    The details- those tiny spaces between the now and then- maybe these cracks in time are how God keeps the world glued together and why The almighty must reside within them. Whether stuff comes or goes because of our details, can it be that in the intentionality of our movements God is blessed? And is the telephone silent or merely just not ringing?

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