No Time

 

It's been a frustrating week. I've been going to work quite early, in part to deal with the heat and often getting home late. I'm exhausted and disappointed that I haven't had time to get to my writing.

I still want to finish the articles on the issues surrounding Kirk Cameron's movie...I've got a couple more parts to finish.

I've got an article going on Syria and Russia and the new geopolitical realities of the post-Cold War world...and why many in the United States are unhappy with the new/old arrangement.

I've wanted to write about Mandela's birthday and how Western media has completely revised history with regard to South Africa. In the late 1980's, Thatcher was still referring to him as a terrorist.

For weeks I've wanted to write a couple of pieces on the Kenyan Church bombings and what's happening in East Africa, and a piece dealing with the mess in Nigeria.

Apart from this, I have at least another one hundred articles and essays ready to be written. I have the notes ready etc... These are on various topics...

·       Christian attitudes toward economics, our life in Babylon

·       A host of political articles, dealing with law, the courts, etc...

·       Current Events (Victor Bout, China, the Eurozone)

·       I have many articles I want to critique...with notes ready to go. I could write them today.

·       Dozens of historical pieces. Originally I had intended to write far more about Church History. These articles do take a bit more time. I've been sidetracked.

The bottom line is...I just don't have the time. I started this in the summer of 2010. Currently there are over 400 blogposts. In the early days I had a lot more in the way of links to stories and articles of interest accompanied by short commentary. I don't even have time for that. I've been focusing on just writing longer pieces.

All told, there are over 300 actual essay style pieces totally around 2500 pages, perhaps quite a bit more. I've been also trying to go back through, clean some things up and review what I've written. Again, there's no time.

I feel like I'm just getting started. I've only begun to skim the surface.

Basically at this point, to do what I want to do would require my full time attention, which is impossible. I don't make a lot of money to begin with (well below the US poverty standards for a family of my size)...which is fine, but it makes it difficult when sometimes I have the pressures of needing to work some additional hours etc... Also, I live in a rural area (my choice) which has its perks (very low housing costs/quiet/natural beauty) but also lays on a heavy burden.

Gasoline, vehicle wear and tear, lots of miles, and often 1.5 to 2 hours a day traveling to and from work, which for me changes all the time. It all takes its toll. For the past several years I've averaged 32-35,000 miles per year. That's a lot of gasoline, a new set of tires every year, brakes etc... In fact all told, when the dust settles, our vehicle alone eats up almost 1/3 of our income. We would have to have one regardless, but... the nature of my work makes it far more costly.

This morning I'm sitting here with a hurting back and again no time.

It's all in the Lord's hands but it has prompted me after a lot of consideration to write the following:

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