There are less days in 2014!

More than enough people said to me before Christmas, "Where did this year go? I cannot believe it is coming up to the end of the year, again!" or "This year has gone way too fast!" And I have actually sat down to check my diary as to whether was a month or two that was missed - but nup! That was 2013, all 365 days of it. I can even remember the mental note I made at the end of 2012, that that year had gone too quickly, so 2013 - well someone has adjusted a small dial somewhere to speed up the treadmill! Who is it? I want to know! Because quite simply, it's not on!
The truth is, as I reflected this morning, that for most parents, let alone adults, if we are to achieve what we need to today, then you shouldn't have gone to bed until 11.30pm last night, then you needed to have got up at 2am, strapped the smartphone on to your head for a direct feed of all emails, texts and social networking comments and replies, the landline gaffer taped to your ear whilst your elderly parents tell you they've had such a busy day driving to shop and back, with one hand on the hoover, the other hand putting a load through the washing machine, the other stirring a pot of food, the other hand cleaning shoes, the other hand dusting, the other hand writing cheques for children's school costs and after school costs, the other hand washing up, and all this whilst driving the children from A to B to C, whilst popping into the supermarket, then on to D, and then back to A. Oh and then you also need a direct feed of the freeview or sat box into the brain so that you can catch up on all the fascinating programmes that you MUST watch. And that's only half the story!
It's amazing as I zip round attempting to clear up what I find in my journeys: a piece of toast and some DS games down the bottom of the sofa. I've developed this technique that I thought quite clever, based on my engineering days, which is to move things from where they have been dumped back towards the approximate place wherein they belong. By the time I've gone up and down stairs 10 times I have the stuff vaguely on the right floor, maybe even in the right zone. Then it needs completely putting back - thats another story. But the wierd thing is that I'm sure things then get moved back - well it's beyond me!

So, are we living far too busy lives? Yes! Are we enjoying life less? Yes! What's driving us? Not sure! who says that life has to be like this? Don't know!

Jesus said something quite potent on this from the sermon on the mount: "Don't worry about tomorrow, today has enough problems of it's own!" Actually that's the warm up line! The truth of the context of what Jesus was saying is "Trust in God!" and not in yourself.

As for the key question - are there less days in 14? Yes, everyone knows that. It's obvious. It is in fact March 2014 already - wake up because Christmas is coming!