Blog 827 – 11.27.2017

The Life Of A Traveling Man – or it is safe to stand still a minute, God still loves you.

I have loved Rick Nelson’s Travlin’ Man song most of my life. And here is a link to my version of it for your listening pleasure, I hope:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HM7aWHayhA0HwKeBRtBXmSi06LgQepnY

If you clicked on the above link you might have noticed a long pause before the song started. That pause and long titles, like mine for today’s blog, might be annoying to many people in our fast paced, immediate gratification society. My day job for quite a number of years has been as a contract oil, gas, welding, and utility inspector. You might have read me saying I believe that I have the best job in the world –

“Getting paid to watch other people work.” Sometime ago it dawned on me what an inspector’s job really is – it is to slow people down so they can “Do it right the first time.” Many people think “doing it fast” or “taking short cuts” or even better still “multi-tasking” is the best way to work. It is not, all three of the above are just recipes for “messing up a lot of things and fast that you have to spend a lot more time fixing, or somebody else does, or else your product or service suffers in quality.

I know what I am talking about, I have worked in the “quality field” for over forty years, and one thing I know, doing it right takes time, and if we do not take that time, the quality of our work, and of our lives suffers for it.

Someone is always offering a faster, cheaper, way to do things to “maximize profit” and to “free us up for more leisure time.” More profits and more leisure time is not and has never been what we truly need but more quality in our lives. Slow down and enjoy each sunset and each sunrise and behold the wonder in your own inner child’s eyes. We seldom meditate or pray or intend. We are way too busy for that mostly screwing things up and having to fix them. Even our planning is mostly fretting and worrying about what we are going to wear, eat, or do. There seems to be so little time left for just “being” me and you.

I love my life as a traveling man. Though there are a lot of lovely girls that I have met and continue to meet along the way, they are not waiting just for me. I would not want them to, nice as that might be. I just do not have that much energy left after singing my songs and writing my blogs. It is here, I hope that I give the best of me, trying to help all my friends and family realize that it is okay just to slow down a bit, and relax. God still loves you – and you have nothing to prove to Him/Her or anyone.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

Trying to slow down and enjoy the journey,

David White