A word on time and change

I went to church today and there was a reading from the Book of Kings. It was the story of how Ejlah is taken up to God leaving part of his sprit with his student Elisha. It got me thinking about change. Change is the only real constant in life. Nothing ever remains the same. One hundred years from now the world totally different then it is today, just life the world is totally different now then it was 100 years ago



Change can be broken down into two types fast change and slow change. Fast change is like a building being ripped down, you see results immeditely. I remember when Ohio State ripped down the old student union I went by it one day and there it was, and went by there a couple weeks later and there was a hole where the union use be. Fast change doesn't usually make a big difference. It might seem like it makes a difference but it just shock value. The slow change is the change the really makes a difference. Most personal change is slow. Very rarly something will happen that changes who you are as a person. More often all of a sudden you will look back and say whoa I'm not the same person I was 5 or 10 years. Over the years your life exprinces have changed you, it's nothing you planned out. You might be the same at the core but the way you express yourself might have changed. What we exprience in life make who we are. Like if Elisha had not some of the expriences in his life he might not been able take some Ejiah's Sprit. It's funny when a meet follow disabled person we tend to have similiar personally traits, that's because we had simliar life expriences.

I've been thinking about changes in history you can see what led up to certain changes nothing happened overnight. Like the US revolution we didn't just decide in1776 we were going to tell the brits to take a flying leap, there was 20 years worth of events leading up to that. Also the Civil War was brewing back in the 1830"s. There was a big lead up to both World Wars. Granted Pearl Habor kind yank us in to WWII but FDR wasn't playing golf with Hitler and Emarbor of Japan before that either. With the Civil Rights Movement there was a long build up until it climaxed in the 1960's. I've always been interested in time travel, I think it would cool travel back in time to see what it was like. Lately I've watching this show on ABC called "Life on Mars" It's about this cop who gets hits by a car and find himself in 1973. It really cool, I wonder how I would react if something like that happened to me? Anyway, it really late need to go to bed.