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Endless repetition

Or, a few questions on daily living.

OK, not much is going on at this blog lately and I have nothing substantial to offer...so how ‘bout a meme?

There aren't enough of them, you know.

Feel free to answer in a comment or on your own blog to pass on. Or not at all:

1) If you could abolish one element of daily life, what would it be?

(my answer -- the clock)

2) If there were more hours in the day, what would you do with them?

(A) sleep (B) straighten up the house (C) try to get more involved with a service/mission project (D) play more games with my kids (E) practice my trumpet (F) read/study (G) keep in touch with more people (H) put more effort into my cooking. I’ll stop there.

3) If there were less hours in the day, what would you cut out?

Some blogging/reading, perhaps some of the kids’ activities, some of the “stuff” I do at church (*gasp!*)

4) If you could add one thing to your daily life, what would it be?

Good, deep, solid discussion, of this type:

In him I found a dialectical sharpness such as I had hitherto known only in Kirk, but coupled with youth and whim and poetry....we had endless arguments on [Theism] and every other topic whenever we were out of the line.

– C. S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy, speaking of his friend and confederate Johnson.

Comments

(1) Washing, drying, and folding laundry
(2) Study!
(3) Sleep--if possible.
(4) Face to face meetings with friends

Posted by: Hannah at January 9, 2006 10:11 PM

1) Sleep.
2) Get more reading done/serve more in the church/write to and call more people
3) Bloghopping.
4) Regular deep conversation with other believers.

Posted by: Manders at January 10, 2006 11:08 AM

1) Getting up in the morning. If only I could simply be up!
2) I wouldn’t know where to start…more prayer, more music, more fun with DH, a bit more sleep, more commuting time to be able to live farther away from London…
3) It would probably have to be much of my blog-reading.
4) Children.

Posted by: Atlantic at January 10, 2006 4:05 PM

1) I have to agree w/Atlantic w/wanting to do away with the process of getting up. I don't mine being up, but it's the getting up that works me over. You know, an object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by another force. (Feel free to correct that refrence if needed.)

2) Honestly, if I had more hours I would probably squander them like I do too many of the ones allotted to me now. If I could manage to use those hours productivley I would pursue creative endeavors...scrappin', writing, making spreadsheets, Dewey Decimaling my library, etc.

3) If there were less hours I would cut out my 2 hour/day workouts. (Joke, there.) If there were less hours then maybe God could do away with some of the options for question one. Like giving us low maintenance fur instead of the need for clothes. (Does that mean laundry is a by product of original sin?) I honestly don't know, probably computer time, which I'm currently working on streamlining.

4) Consistency in the things I want/need to do.

Posted by: Lexie at January 12, 2006 11:49 PM

1. Decay - moral, physical, and spiritual

2. I am so convicted. A number of possibilities pop into my head, all of which would not be entirely impossible now, if I put the effort into them.

3. some blog hopping, and I would try to consolidate my errand-running

4. I completely agree with the given choice: good, deep, solid discussion. What would be better?

Posted by: givengrace at January 17, 2006 9:15 AM

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