Buckets

We all have priorities and needs in our lives, some of them crucial , some of them small…

We all have lots of things pulling us in lots of directions.

Sometimes people talk about “buckets”, let’s use that to describe those things. Your time, your energies, your money, your heart and soul go into these buckets.

You have a bucket for yourself, one for your kids, one for your spouse, one for your parents, one for your friends.

One for your job. You have a large number, but limited number of buckets.

What about the woman you don’t know who lives 1.2 miles north and 3.4 miles west of you? Do you have a bucket for her?

Probably not; by the time you’ve put your time and energy and money and heart and soul into your buckets, there isn’t really enough left over for a bunch of someone else’s buckets!

It sounds pretty normal, but in reality isn’t that a terribly selfish way to live your life?

The song says all we are is dust in the wind.

That woman who you don’t know who lives 1.2 miles north and 3.4 miles west of you is no less a speck of dust than you are. HOW DARE YOU believe that you are the most important speck of dust? That you shouldn’t be concerned about her? Do you have the right to focus on yourself and your nearest specks of dust in this wind, to the neglect of ALL the other specks?

You don’t need to make room for a million more buckets.

But make room for one more. For your unknown Windmates.

We’re all in this together. Be a team player.