Immediately?!

"At once they left their nets and followed him."  (Mark 1:18)

How fast do you do something?  If you are like most people it depends on who is asking (telling?) you to do it - right?  Sometimes, even when you are talking to yourself, it depends on what it is that needs doing. (Yes, I talk to myself - even tell myself to go do something.)  This can, however, lead to the habit of putting things either "off for later" or ignored completely.

The readings, today, are about doing what we are called to do.  Jonah is, finally, going and doing what God has called him to -- going to Nineveh. (Jonah 3:3)  Paul is telling the Corinthians time is "passing away" so be paying attention to what God is asking us to be doing. (1 Corinthians 7:31) The Gospel reading is Jesus calling the Disciples, this time Simon, Andrew, James and John, and the response they give - "at once they left their nets and followed." (Mark 1:18)

So.... Is that what we are doing?  When God is asking us to do something, change something, try something - are we?  As Caregivers we are already doing A LOT, and schedules are pretty busy, but are we doing what God is asking us to do or are we "putting it off, ignoring it, or (like Jonah) going in the opposite direction?  Something to think about.......