Doing. Doing. Doing. The work just keeps piling up that we do not even have time for life. We are human beings you know. We just do not do things. We are beings.
I have heard that the more we do, the more we become. So what is the link between doing and being? The more we do, the more we be. Like the song by the Beatles, "It's been a hard day's night. And I've been working like a dog."
Yes soon we'll become a dog. Or we watch too much television, soon we become the television. We watch each other eventually. Or we play too much computer games, so much that the games take control of us. Every moment we are thinking about the game.
Also like between a couple meeting each other day in and day out. Day in and day out, they are thinking of each other and in their minds, the image of each other consumes them and fill their hearts and minds and dreams. Soon you can see they almost look alike.
The other thought also is whether it is true or not:
Without doing, there can be no being.
To find being, it involves you doing.
Too much of doing, you may lose being.
Too much of being, you may lose doing.
I am confused myself. Nevertheless, we need to build on doing certain things like reading a book together, walking the park together or dining together. These all need each one of us to be being there. In so doing, there is being. Life brings about purpose and meaning.
Yes I desire to grow in the knowledge of God's word, like Ezra in the Bible*. So there is a need to devote time to study and observance of God's law and to teaching. This involves intensiveness and discipline doing and dedication.
No other way.
* Ezra Chapter 7, verse 10
For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.
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