Idle Hands

Several years ago, there was a 33 year-old man by the name of Larry Walters that became bored.

One morning he got up and went down to the local army surplus store and bought forty-five used weather balloons. That afternoon he strapped himself into a lawn chair, to which several of his friends tied the now helium-filled balloons. He took with him a few items, one of which was a BB gun, figuring he could shoot the balloons one at a time when he got ready to land.

Walters assumed the balloons would lift him about 100 feet in the air. Now he was caught off guard when the chair soared more than 11,000 feet into the sky, smack in the middle of the air traffic pattern at the Los Angeles International Airport. He was too frightened to shoot any of the balloons so he stayed airborne for more than two hours, forcing the airport to shut down its runways for much of the afternoon, causing long delays in flights all across the country. Soon after he was safe on the ground, he was cited by the police.

Then the reporters asked him three qurestions: "Were you scared?"

"Yes," he replied. "Would you do it  again?"

"Abslolutely not," he answered.

The third question was, "Why did you do it?"

He said, "Because i was bored and I just couldn't sit there!"

God doesn't want us to get bored. He has given us so much to do. Just look around. There is so much good that we can all do. Maybe just a visit, or just a phone call.

We can surely find more profitable things to do than strapping ourselves to a lawn chair with helium balloons tied to it.

Solomon said, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might: for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)