Several writers have pointed to the cultural shifts that are happening around us. For the past century, there has been a distance between work and home, between career and family. We go to work, we go home and we know the difference. In the commute between home and work there is a space between; the marker of a boundary. We have gotten good at maintaining the balance between the family time and work time by keeping them separate.
André and his family lived more than an hour from his office where he worked. His commute often cost him more than three hours of his day. He and his family made the decision to move closer to his workplace and found a home in a new subdivision. The first day in his new schedule André said he enjoyed the extra time with his family, seeing his children off to their new school.
Then he went to work. He arrived in about five minutes, but then he found he had to sit in his car for another fifteen minutes. He said it was because he wasn’t ready to go into the building.
But now electronic messaging and social media have blurred the lines between work and home, career and family. Emails pile up before breakfast and important announcements sound from the smart phone during dinner.
Do we have to respond to them all? The old strategy of leaving home to go to work and compartmentalizing our lives will not be successful in a world where all facets of our lives are on the Internet.
The spiritually healthy person finds way of integrating all of life together.
Grace and Peace.
