Importance of time.

"There's a very positive relationship
between people's ability to
accomplish any task and the time
they're willing to spend on it."
- Joyce Brother


In the morning I am running around trying to get myself ready for work. I keep glancing at the time, trying to see how much more can I squeeze into those last minutes I have left in my apartment before I have to run to catch the bus. Each minute that goes by only means I have to make sure I use it wisely so I tell myself Gaby, you will have to make sure today you are not that long on your makeup because you have to prepare your breakfast. Then I glance at the time and see oh I have 4 minutes left, perhaps I can pick up my messy room a little bit. Then the watch hits 8:18 and run out the house, counting my minutes because the bus gets here at 8:38. At that point even how I walk will matter, will I gallop my way to work or will I have to speed walk? Will the bus be early or will it be late today?

What is my point you ask? As you saw my morning was constrained by time. Every minute I had was accounted for. If I decided to not do something or change my plan it would change my course of the day. The world we live in is surrounded by time frames which are determined by society or the particular goal that you or I may have set for ourselves. Some of these time frames are positive and some may not be. When it get's to the goals in our life there are certain things that will require more time. How do we value the time we have in this world? What are the things that take up the most time in our life? I have decided recently to really take the time to get to know who I am. Take time to work on my personal goals and dedicate time to those goals in order to accomplish them. The quote above was on my google homepage this evening when I went in to open it. It got me thinking about the amount of time that we dwell on the NOT so positive things.

Joyce Meyers in her message this past week was talking about the time we spend as woman on our personal appearance and how if we were to spend as much or some more time on the important things like bettering our internal self perhaps we would discover some great things about who we are. As I live this life I learn that every moment we have or share with others is important. When I look back to life how can I accountable for the time I have spent on this world? Did I make the time to love myself and value the person that God has made in me? Sometimes we live our life trying to substitute an emptiness we feel by consuming our time with unimportant events or habits. My life and time is worth more than just wasting it. We are called to first become ministers of our own life before we can become ministers to others of their life. Every second matters in our life, even those that sometimes we fail to see.

I know sometimes we are chasing time, we want to race towards certain moments in our life or even back to certain things in our past. We think that life needs to be programmed to where we want it to be at the moment but if there is something we learn is that patience is the key. When awaiting certain moments in life we need to learn to be patient and let go. Live each day for what it is. Appreciate your today as much as you sometimes value your yesterday and worry about your tomorrow. Count the blessings of today and allow for time to show you the importance of living in the present. If you have any goals set for yourself today remember to make the time for them, your relationships require time, your education, your well being, top of it all your spiritual life requires time. May we learn to prioritize our time and know how to manage it wisely because at the end time is of essence in our lives.