What it is
A good time is the time that you purposefully choose to set aside in your daily activities to enable you to relax. You consciously decide to clear your mind from anything that regularly concerns you and frustrates you with your inability to fix it. You forget all of your past failures and don’t give any attention to worrying about future threats to your peace and safety. You focus the attention of your thoughts on activities that you are confident will enable you to relax and to get refreshed by some time, several moments or even hours or days, that you will spend having a good time.
It may be playing a digital game on your small computer that your competitive spirit assures you that you can win again. It may be watching a good team of athletes compete in a dynamic contest of skills that you can enjoy watching their personal struggles. It may be listening to a favorite musical concert or letting your mind rest in a good story or uplifting article. It may be turning your home into a entertainment center where you can relax with your family or even with some friends in some activities that you know you can all enjoy doing together, like eating some delicious food or playing some table games or just talking with each other as you share positive words of encouragement with each other in face to face conversations. It may be going with your family to a distant place for an extended vacation away from your normal work responsibilities where you can enjoy some beautiful sights and physical and mental activities, like sitting around a campfire making and eating smores and then going to bed covered with a blanket of fresh air surrounded by members of your loving family. It may be going to your favorite beach and playing in the surf as you enjoy the caresses of the waves or surfing upon them. These are all activities that could give you a good time.
For a report of how the initial groups of Christians had a good time, I invite you to check out this statement on my website: https://www.christianityetc.org/fun.php. Note the specific ways in which they chose to have a good time and relax.
Let’s talk about this
What impressed you about the ways that these early Christians had fun and a good time in their daily lives? What are your favorite ways of relaxing in your daily life? What makes them to be a good time in your daily experiences? What can you do to provide more opportunities for a good time in your daily experiences? Let’s talk about this.