Pastor Scott's Musings

Grandparenting is great. I spent the day with my 3.5 year old granddaughter this week. She is so full of energy! And she has a very short attention span. About every ten minutes she shifts her attention to something new. One minute she wants to watch a movie. This week's choice was Toy Story 2. After a short bit of viewing she's off to another room playing with dolls. Ten minutes later, if that, she's playing with play dough. (It's exhausting for Opa. Opa is my German grandpa name)  No sooner than she's chose one activity, she moves on to another. And I can't keep up. It's feels like flipping though channels on a radio station, but without the annoyance of commercials. I love her dearly and I truly believe being a grandparent is helping me to become a better person. For instance, she loves to play and pretend. We have fun together with little figurines. We move them with our hands and make noises for them with our mouths. Sometimes we speak for the toys in...

I need to be writing. Writing is good for my soul because I connect to that creative part of me that needs to find expression. When I write out of my love for God and for humanity, I sometimes get in touch with that spiritual sphere in me, out of which God moves and speaks. So writing is both a creative act, that connects me to creator's character within, and and act of love and service to God and to my fellow travelers. I am a very task focused man, sometimes to the exclusion of everything and everyone else. What's great about being task-focused is that I can zone in on the task at hand with a laser sharp focus and be very productive.  I can block out the rest of the world and really get after what I need to get after. Being a bit of a procrastinator, there's nothing like a deadline to motivate that task-focused side of me. (grin)  The dark side of being task-focused is that I can be blind to other needs. Other people have needs. A good servant should be sensitive and li...