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Make Time Good
By Andy on 7 September 2006 evening timeCategory: Personal
Time is precious. We all know that. Don’t we? No matter who you are, where you live, what your responsibilities are, or how much money you make, we all have the same twenty-four hours.
And my, how those hours seem to fly by! The Bible says, “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away” (James 4:14).
How do you spend your precious time? Some, believing that time is valuable, rush, rush, rush because not a minute should be wasted. Others, also believing that time is valuable, slow down and take it all in. Interesting. The same belief produces two completely different attitudes.
I sometimes waffle between those two attitudes myself. One example of this is when I’m commuting to work. My commute is a necessary evil right now. I don’t like it. I’d rather be spending an extra hour and a half a day with my family, but it’s not something I can change right now. We’re fervently praying that our house will sell.
So, I’ve often approached my commute as a race against the clock. Just wanting to get it over with, I’d find myself getting stressed out, losing my cool, and teetering with frustration. And what did it get me? I may shave five minutes off my drive and be a slightly ahead of yesterday’s split time . . . if I’m lucky. Is that worth it? Not hardly. However, when I slow down and drive with the traffic flow while doing something like listening to good music or a sermon, praying, or just being quiet, I arrive feeling calmer and better about just about everything in life.
Instead of trying to make good time, I now try to make time good.
I didn’t come up with that last statement. I wish I did because it’s really good. Nope, I read it while going through a Defensive Driver Safety Course that I had to take because I got in too big of a hurry.
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