I am writing today’s article because I need to hear the message again myself…even though I just heard it on Sunday. The minister’s topic at our church service was “The Time of Your Life.” The following are insights that he shared with us.
“Do not squander your time, for time is the stuff that life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin.
There’s lots of things we can do with time. We can spend it, save it, take time, make up time, manage time, kill and waste time, we can have free time, extra time, too much time, lose time, gain time, prime time, then there’s doing time, hard times. At some point each of us will run out of time. Time is the raw material of life. The way you spend your time is the way you spend your life. If you master your time, you master your life. We each get the same amount.
Time doesn’t need managing. What we need to manage is ourselves. Our body has a limited shelf life. What am I doing with my opportunity of a lifetime?
The minister gave three suggestions to better enjoy life:
1) Take time to become clear on what is important to you. Wasting time is a clear sign that you don’t know what’s important to you. Identifying what is important to you forces you to make some choices. Decide how you want to spend your time while you are here. Where are you seeking? Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Why are you here? Think of a time 3 years from now. It is your funeral. What will your family, friends, co-workers, members of your church community say about you? What would you like people to say about you? At the end of your life, what would you like to say about you and how you lived your life? Listen to what your soul is calling you to experience.
2) Take time to heal the things that need to be healed within you. What is frustrating you, broken, damaged, holding you back? Take time to fix or heal it. Quit complaining and take time to fix it. Go in and do the healing work. You don’t think you are worthy of something that great.
3) Life is now. Time is now. Take time to live now. It is all you have. There is nothing stopping you from feeling joy now but you. An old Buddhist saying is “Take care of this moment and you take care of all life.”
Take time to become clear on what is important to you. Listen to what your soul is calling.
WOW, now I need to print this out, keep it where I can see it, and pay attention to his wise words. How about you?
