A Walk with Friends

I've just got back from heading out into the night on a stroll with a couple of friends. These stroll's used to be commonplace a number of years ago but have recently died out - it was about time they were resurrected.

I often find the best thinking is done walking. Either walking alone, with friends, with much talking or with little.

We talked about houses a lot. Where we live we have a lot of big - sometimes very big - houses. Some are so big they are ugly. It can be quite disturbing to see that size of house... The interesting thing we noted was how we used to think about our idea homes when we were younger. A common ideal was to have a room dedicated to whatever our hobby may be: library/reading room, sewing room, music room, etc.

That led me on to thinking about idols, things we put above God, and how we discern them. A pertinent point was made to me recently that in order to discern our idols we need only to think upon what we daydream about. Another way would be to consider what we most easily spend our money on.

What do I daydream about? What do I most easily spend money on? Alarmingly easy questions to answer.

How do we reorder these things? Maybe a walk would be necessary to work it through......