Trip to Gabs: day 3

I spent the day at the hotel today and didn’t really do much yesterday. I find that once my school is finished, and the televisions start to loop, there really isn’t much to do. Fortunately there is internet here and so I was able to do some internet surfing. I’m not going to write about that because that would be boring for everyone.

No, I wanted to write about what got me thinking today. I heard somewhere that our lives are made fulfilled by two things: 1, God, and 2; the work that we’re given to do. But what are supposed to when we don’t have anything to do? I am puzzled. Because when you have finished your work (in theory) you shouldn’t have any more work to do.  I wonder then why I feel so incredibly bored. Perhaps I am over thinking this, but I have been plagued with this thought for a while.

Perhaps it’s because I was alone all day, or it could be because of the fact that I’m used to practicing 5 different instruments a day, or it could be that my muse (I write stories) is… difficult to access if I can’t get into the proper mood. Whatever the case, boredom is a place that I try to avoid (like the plague).  Now, I just want to clarify, it’s not like I can’t be bored, I just don’t like it. It just doesn't feel right.

So as the son of a pastor, I had to ask “what exactly the bible has to say about it”. I thought of Job first, but was inflicted by much more than boredom, Esther- nope just in mortal danger, Daniel- no only politics; but Solomon.  Ecclesiastes says “There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him, God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.”

This tells gives me the impression that one should keep busy, so I wonder- how do I apply what I think I’ve found? I’m not sure. I do enjoy the work that I do, but do I do enough? Or is it that in the times that there is nothing to do that I’m supposed to wait, practice patients (Romans 5:4; “And patience, experience; and experience, hope”). That still, I don’t know, what I do know, I will have to pray about this and ask for guidance. And in the mean time, I’ll continue to wonder.