Beeep beeep
I heard it as soon as I got out of my car in the HEB parking lot. Where is that sound coming from? Oh, just another car alarm. As I strolled right through the automatic doors another "Beeeep." How can it be going off when I just got here? The oranges looked great but I didn't grab an orange and if I did why would I carry it into the store and would the orange have a sensor in it? I got my usual lunch a power bar, diet dr. pepper and a fishing magazine, paid and then headed out. As I stepped into the general area of exit another "beeep." I turned around looking for someone to hear my plea of innocence and show the contents of my bag and a cashier non-chalantly waves me off. Wow! I should have grabbed a bag of chips.
Then, I thought what if I ignore the alarms in my life. I had just experienced 3 alarms in about 10 minutes and they had caused no extra attention. Yet the alarms are there for a reason we've just gotten used to them and blocked them out as a malfunction. Am I indifferent to the "alarms" in my life, too? They are all over our lives set up in our conscience by morals, character, integrity, holy standards… There they are, a little red flag waving here and there warning us of danger. It's like yellow caution tape not to be crossed and yet…we cross, thinking "it didn't mean us," "someone else will do something" or "just this once…" Will I notice the sounds today? I know one thing I need to listen and hear.
April 19th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Hey,
I live in Turkey, but my husband, kids and I will be returning to CFBC in June for 7 months. I enjoyed reading your blog entry. Everytime we go to the local mall here we have to walk through a metal detector. It always beeps…and they wave us on through. I often wonder if it would make a different sound for “dangerous metal”. But you are right. I don’t wonder if it will beep or even notice if it does beep anymore. Nor do I pay attention to the security guards. I just walk on through. Thanks for the reminder to pay attention to the “alarms” that God uses to get our attention. We need to pay attention, because if we don’t we will stop hearing the warning sounds and that is when it gets dangerous!
April 20th, 2006 at 3:41 am
It seems that what people care about matters more than what they know. The information alone is not enough. I mean who really changes when they hear the facts of what Jesus did… I don’t see that. His reality must affect them; how they feel about him matters.
My alarms are so tied to my knowledge of rules and regulations. But to really allow them to alter me, I have to be truly tied to him mind and emotions. If there is no hunger for him, I can pretty much ignore anything.
Drink a DP for me. Hey, D, check out “Amsterdam” by Cold Play.. dead on the surface but screaming underneath.
Foster Dreamers, T
April 20th, 2006 at 8:11 am
It is the relationship that causes the alarm. Knowing what God is like and what pleases Him make it happen.
Did you know there is a new DP, Berries and Cream?
April 21st, 2006 at 10:00 am
sounds like a shampoo
April 24th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Don’t drink the berries and cream! What fishing magazine did you buy??
April 25th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Berries and Cream wasn’t too bad but it isn’t Dr. Pepper. I bought a Gulf Coast Fisherman? or Angler? trying to find where the trout and reds are.