I find that this is the time of year, with the summer holidays and changes at all workplaces, that one of the great problems raise its head - boredom.
We can become so bored that we can start making boring things interesting (snail racing, rain, being ill, etc.). Holiday time is meant to be a time when we are to rest from our work; yet too often I hear people talk about time off as 'I have to...' rather that 'I am looking forward...'. What's that all about?
What to do with boredom? Maybe it's time to understand ourselves better and try to know what it is we need in our time of rest. Viktor Frankl, author of 'Man's search for Meaning', spoke about the existential vacuum: when all that we regard as normal in our lives are, temporarily or permanently, taken from us (It's known as The Sunday vacuum - which makes sense no matter how ever you view it).
I struggle with this, more so since I left college; I can have the ants in my pants and mopy moments, like anyone. But if we spend time, each day even, away from it all, and listen to a still small voice (1 Kings 19:12), we can see the world, and our place in it, a little more clearly and enjoy it all more.
