40 Hours, the name of this blog, reflects one of my theories of relationships. Some of you saw the title and understood it immediately, but I know others will want an explanation so here goes:
Over the last couple of years, I have recognized that as we get deeper involved in the art of living a productive American life it becomes increasingly difficult to acquire and maintain meaningful relationships. So I began to spread this idea of 40 Hours to significant relationships. Now I have done no conclusive study that this figure is a real figure . . . it is purely theoretical, but I choose it because it is basically the number of hours it takes during High School or College to hang out for a whole weekend with one person and to make a lifelong friend.
In post college life and in the midst of career and family is is very difficult to ever find 40 Hours to dedicate to relationships. It takes a lot of effort and concentration, and so most of us live without the experience of significant and influential relationships in our lives - the kind of relationships that "spur us on towards love and good deeds" (Heb. 11:24-25).
So the name of this blog is an expression of our desire as a community to know one another at great depths, to be involved in the levels of each others lives where we experience unconditional love and where we experience giving unconditional love. And where our love will be evidence of Jesus to others.
So there you have it, an attempt at an explanation.
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