Where did the simple days go

I haven't written on here in AGES....I don't know what happened. But I think I am about to copycat a wise friend and ditch the world of Facebook, for an undetermined amount of time. Maybe I will write on here more...Maybe I will get more done at home. Maybe I will enjoy my kids more.

WARNING: COMPLETE AND RANDOM SUBJECT CHANGE AHEAD. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

I want to go back in time. Seriously. I don't mean I wana re-do. I mean I literally want to take my family, and some friends who would be willing, and go back in time. To before TV, before computers. Perhaps we could have record players because I SO enjoy music. But I want to be in a time when everything wasn't so fast paced. When we weren't always trying to get everywhere and do everything as fast as possible. Before fast food. I said once I would love to go and spend a few weeks with the Amish. As an Amish. I know some people will read this and think, are you crazy? Well, maybe. But I would love to live in a community that was about relationship. Where all the women would get together and talk and laugh and be crafty. They would cook meals together. Weddings were a community event... everything was. and I know there is much legalism there and not much grace always...but still. they have some things right. Maybe it would be better to say, give me the mid eighteen hundreds. In the glory days of Jane Austen.... The dresses, the dances, the sharing of life. Simplicity. I know it might be a case of "the grass is always greener" but sometimes I just want to get rid of all the stuff, ya know? To just wake up and spend time with your family and yes cook and clean.....but everything was slower paced. Everything was more focused on people and relationships than stuff and things....

In some ways I had that when I was in YWAM. I went 2 years with barely any TV other than movies. ANd you know what? I didn't miss TV. Relationships were the focus. We lived life together. We shared together and were real, and life was relationship... In face most non-western countries are still that way. Like Mexico. People may be late, there might not be so much scheduled, but you know what? There is always time for family and friends. ALWAYS. And isn't that what it's all about anyway?

I am sorry to ramble on. But I think I need to get away. Far away. And gain a new perspective. Or recapture an old one.....maybe it is as simple as going dark... at least on Facebook. We will see......