I think my greatest “problem” is that I’m interested in almost everything. It’s crazy. I can find something that intrigues me in just about anything. For instance, I’ve spent some time a couple of days ago looking through a beekeeping catalog and I’m about ready to start beekeeping. Bees are fascinating. Then again, most things are. The list of things I want to try or do are almost endless. There’s photography and motion graphics and learning another language and art and science and travel and a thousand other things.
When I go to the library I want to read almost every book in the building. (I’m talking about non-fiction books. Fiction doesn’t do a lot for me.) There’s just so much in this amazing world that our Heavenly Father has wonderfully created and crafted. I want to see it all and learn more about every bit of it.
Now, before you start to think that I’m out of hand, I’ll quickly add that I understand the need to focus and I have to discipline myself to not to try to go in every direction at once. At the same time, I think that this insatiable curiosity is actually a gift from God. It’s because of it that many, many sermon illustrations develop in my mind. I tend to see God’s hand in all these things that interest me. In other words, I think He designed me to be interested in almost everything.
At the end of the day, perhaps we’re not curious enough. Maybe God wants us to dig deeper and explore more. Maybe He designed this place to be a bit more of an adventure than we realize. I’m sure that if we would just take the time to truly look around us or dig a little bit beneath the surface of things, we’d find insight from Him and, at the very least, His fingerprints.
I am right there with you Tony. I know we have had a conversation about it before. Unfotunately, it drives my wife Nuts!
Chad, people may misunderstand us or even laugh at us but one day we’ll rule the world. :)
I have no desire to keep bees, but I’m the same way. I enjoy so many things, and want to try so many more. Though I haven’t come to terms with this being an asset, yet. I find it to be more of a distraction. I allow myself to be pulled in too many directions that I fail to be singularly focused on the ministry that God has entrusted to me.
I blame the internet. It’s now too easy to learn about anything. I rarely have to be content with simply not knowing something. The information is just a search away. As a result, I think I ought to know more and do more. But what I really need is to be content doing what God has called me to do, and doing it better and better.
I met you via Twitter and enjoyed reading your posts this morning. I so relate with your comment about having multiple interests, ” I can find something that intrigues me in just about anything.” In fact, I dubbed this kind of person a “creative eclectic.” Thanks for brightening my day.
Tony- Maybe you could write, Proverbs-part 2. The tagline could be: “What Solomon started, Tony finished.” ;)