What's In Your Head?

Last summer I spent a week doing Zumba everyday with my wife. Let me tell you it is quite a workout.

For those of you that don't know, Zumba is an exercise program designed mainly for women. The music, the moves and so on are all designed to appeal to women. At least that is my experience. It was a really tough workout. I did enjoy it. After a couple of days I started having fun with the girly songs and tried to have as much fun as possible with it.

Anyway, these catchy songs get stuck in your head and this was certainly the case with me. One of the songs had a line in it that went, "La, la, la". It was so stuck in my head that I finally texted the instructor and said, "La, la, la GET OUT OF MY HEAD". Luckily this did not stay forever. I am back to "normal" now, kind of. 

My journey so far through diaconate formation has been good. I realized last night that God seemed to be stuck in my head. It seems that everything going on around me suddenly reminds me of God.

Last night we were trying to get my son to practice his guitar. He like the guitar but because practice was going to interrupt what he was doing, he came back with, I don't like guitar, I never liked guitar and so on. I was getting frustrated with him and then it dawned on me that this is the same way we treat God.

Oh God, I love you and will do anything for you. At least until it interrupts what I want to do. I love you, God but the big game is on. I love you God but I have to work more to make more money to buy more things. I can only imagine how frustrated God must be with us when you emotions and devotion can just turn on a dime. We can easily fall into the trap where we only want to follow God when it is convenient for us.

The good news in all of this is that God is way more patient than I am.