It's time #1

It’s time


In Boston, starting tomorrow, is a Microsoft webdesign event. You can check it out at http://www.remix07boston.com/Default.aspx. What’s unique about it is that it sports not only new software, but notes the need for interactivity as developers. Of course, you can keep up with it all on Facebook (remix07). And there are funky presenters. One is “President and Chief Experience Officer of Experience Engineering, Inc.,” (that reminds me of Luckenback Texas, where Hondo Crouch, the Grand Imagineer once lived) Another, is all about “creating highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites for the global community.” My nephew is leading this breakout: “Go below the surface of ASP.NET AJAX and see how the Microsoft AJAX Library and the ASP.NET AJAX server controls come together to create a rich platform for developing more immersive, responsive and interactive Web applications.”

This group is techno-value added and future oriented. There is nothing holding them back. Their big problems are flight connections and delays, and figuring out how to publicize and sell. So they focus on words that appeal and gatherings that tantalize (tonight there’s a special gathering with food, drinks and a view of the River Charles.

Another I recently spotted has a different sense of time and a different reality with limited hope;

Last night the white noise in my office was the Discovery Channel’s story about the California Prison System. It seems the idea of “three strikes and you’re out” (2nd felony doubles the sentence and the third felony means life) has caused an over crowded prison, gang control within the walls. One inmate commented, “When you come in here, you need to learn to do jail.” That means, an inmate has to learn all the details and desires of gangs, groups and the man. People look at time differently in prison—it’s all about surviving until you get out. About 1% of the inmates gain a GED while doing time.

Lots of folks feel stuck. You might feel stuck right now. Are you wanting something better?
It’s true that if you open you life to God, God will respond. But it’s also true, I think, that God is looking for us with an open hearted welcome. You might read about Zacchaues.

There once was a man named Zacchaeus who combined these two worlds—wanting a value added life while being stuck in survival mode. The tension in his life was palpable. So he climbed a tree to get a view of the newest traveling healers coming to town. He thought, “It’s time to see this Jesus.”


Luke 19
1He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. 5When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” 6So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. 7All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.” 8Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.” 9Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. 10For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”