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Are people truly as busy as they say they are?
Are they busy or are they lazy? Do people desire to spend time with others?
Do they desire it and do it or do they just talk about it but then never do anything about it?
Is someone busy when they want to sit home and watch 1 - 2 shows every night on television?

I know that I desire to get to know people, to spend time with people and truly get to know them - not superficially. I want to know their thoguhts, dreams, hopes, fears. Do others feel the same or am I alone? Because lately, it feels as though I am alone. People say this but then do the opposite - by sitting home watching television instead of meeting together and talking and spending time - good quality time together. This is just a rambling because my thoughts have just started swirling over this. Over the past 3 months we have asked about 10 different people to come over for dinner.....and not one has been able to make it. They are all "too busy".

Of course, now my thoughts go to it must be me. They must not want to spend time with me. I may be annoying or embarrassing or something. Do I need too much social interaction with others? I don't know.....maybe.

After these experiences, the thought of going into ministry scares me. My desire is to get to know others and to build into their lives and for them to build into my life - so that together our relationships help us to know and love Jesus more. Can this happen? How can one care for people who are "too busy".

I think - I work 20 hours a week from home, have three kids under 5 (homeschooling one of them), do all the housework, shopping, cleaning, and do a lot for my husband who is "too busy" because of his schoolwork......I don't feel too busy to meet with people for dinner. Shouldn't I be too busy also? Am I not doing enough?

For some reason God has put this huge desire in my heart to be with people.....to talk, to learn about them. It has to be there for a reason. I will not let this discouragment discourage me. I will keep plugging away trying to find someone who is not "too busy". There has to be someone out there who is not too busy! :-) Isn't there?