Exactly

recently I stumbled across a video of the pastor Rob Bell. It's called "Shells" and it's number 20 in his nooma DVD series. It's crazy sometimes how life works or I guess even more crazy, how God works. This video of his that I did not even intend to see was the exact thing that I've been needing to. I've hit some rough patches recently in my current relationship because of how busy we are, and that's exactly what this video was about. He tells a story of how him and his family are at the beach and they're picking up sea shells when all the sudden they see a giant star fish bobbing in the water. One of his sons runs out to get it, and after many attempts he gives up. When they ask him why he can't get it, he says "because my hands are full of shells". So often in life we get wrapped up in doing things and constantly on the move that we have no time to stop and reflect on why we do things. We rush through things and by doing that we rob ourselves of the experience of life, all the while we think we are experiencing it. I'm going to be as bold as to challenge you to stop and think. Really just think about "Why?". Because...that's exactly what we need.