Time?

This has been an aspect of all of our lives, since we were born.  As a newborn, your eating depended on what time it was and how long since the last time you had eaten.  Then as your got older you had to be at school on time, and soccer practice, and even church.  There is a time set for everything.  It seems like the day we are born a stopwatch starts and we are in a race.  Now, don't get me wrong time also benefits us in so many was.  It is how our world stays on course, or on schedule.  It is how we know to go to work and to leave work and go home.  

 

In 2001, after 9/11 I went into the military with no idea what I was getting me self into.  I went from just graduating and sleeping on my moms couch until noon every morning, to getting screamed at all day long.  I was forced to put this whole time thing into motion.  Not only did I have to be on time for school, but we had to wake up at a certain time, we could only go to the bathroom at a certain time, and we could only call home we were told it was time.  We have been forced into a race to see who can get the most done in the time alloted to them.  

It almost takes sitting down and letting things slow down to realize the little things that we miss on a daily basis.  We miss the small of things, the way certain foods taste, I think we even forget the things that we love to do.  Free time is nomore.  It is something we have to make time for.  I have taken on a lot lately, more than the usual a lot, I have noticed that there is not much time for anything.  So not procrastinating should be my focus.  Although I am aware of this goal I still fail.  I fail to get things done ahead of time and then I have cut into the already busy schedule to make less time for something else.  

There is enough time it is just learning how to mange the time you have not have and not let the time manage you.  I have let time manage me for so long that it seems natural.  Today I am writing this to mainly remind myself what is feels like to be over welmed and that have myself to blame.  I have a final, a paper, a powerpoint, and some labs due in a class today.  Of course I have not finished them all but I will work my brains out to get them finished and once again tell myself that this will never happen again.

Manage time, don't let it manage you.

GOD is LOVE

Justin Abercrombie

Carpenters Church 

Children's pastor