Roundabout

What is the saying about a cat chasing its tail? It goes round and round and gets nowhere.

Life is never straight forward, well not for many of us it appears. Some days I just seem to go around in circles and accomplish very little which usually means they are filled with requests from other members of my family requiring my assistance. So on these days it’s not that I haven’t achieved anything but the things that I wanted to do are not being completed.

When I was younger, and the children were smaller, it seemed that morning would arrive and its was get the kids to school, get to work, come home, get dinner, kids to bed, housework and fall into bed yourself only to repeat the exact same round the next day. Weekends only varied by the fact that the work factor became what housework wasn’t finished during the week and getting kids to school was replaced by sporting events or church.

Our first bill for the year arrived today which means that we are again on the treadmill of paying for the things in life that we find so necessary. I think that is just as well God didn’t give the seasons a voice or what might we hear. “Oh do I have to come around again; I did this last year at the same time”.

It would appear that even King Solomon realised that life was a bit of a roundabout at times. “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.” Ecclesiastes 1:2-4. I’m just grateful that God is the beginning and the end and is moving forward.