The Most Precious Treasure: Our Time

I have to admit. Time is something I am wrestling with these days. Only in our second day of 2009 and I am already wondering how I can get everything done. I am DETERMINED to lose the weight I want to lose. So time is required each day to exercise and to fix healthy meals. Time is needed to blog and to write and to work on all of the writing projects I need to and want to. I need time to be able to spend in quiet reflection and prayer with God so I can hear from Him on what He wants me to do. I need time to spend with others – building friendships and relationships with people in our church, in Wives of Faith, with my writing friends, and of course with my family.

I’m not quite sure how to fit it all in. And I really don’t have any words of wisdom today. Just sharing with you what I’m thinking about. I think about all of the military wives who are hurting today and I want to have the time to be able to help be an encouragement. I think about the fact that 2010 is not so far away and I wonder how much time I will have when deployment visits our house again.

I suppose it comes down to priorities. And good time management. But time management sounds like what you find in a factory, and life does not always operate on factory terms. When people talk about finding “more balance” I used to agree wholeheartedly, until I started to think about the word balance. Evenly divided.

But should everything be evenly divided in our lives? Should the time I spend with my husband and my son equal the time I spend on a writing assignment? Should the time I spend doing church activities equal the time I spend with God? Not necessarily. So “balance” is not necessarily true.

In fact, maybe my entire focus should be solely on God. Because if I am seeking His will and His thoughts each day, then everything else should fall into place. Or out of place, depending on whether it should have had my attention to begin with.

I don’t think this issue of time will ever truly be solved. But by keeping one appointment each day, one set amount of time, with the One who is the most important, the rest I know will follow.