This morning I was just thinking about Time. We all have a predetermined amount of time allotted to us by God. He sets the parameters of our lives, when we are born, when we will die. All those days are written and recorded in heaven.
So if you think of time like a bank account, you have an amount in the bank that you can use however you want. You can spend it, you can invest it, or you can give it away. Ultimately the decision is yours on how you want to use your resources. Time is the most valuable resource you have. Yet we don’t think about it as being finite. It is limited. We can use/or draw on our account however we want to. We can indulge in self comfort, luxury. We can invest our time into other people’s lives, volunteer for a worth cause. Regardless, when we choose to spend time with someone, it is because we value that person with our time.
Recently I had the honor of spending a whole week with 3 old friends. Yes we are all the same age, but I refer to the amount of time we have known each other. We went on a cruise together. We invested our limited and valuable time on each other. I remember thinking, I really love these ladies as I watched them speaking. Then it dawned on me, how amazing it was that each of us had taken not only our resources of money to do this, but that we were willingly giving a whole week of our precious time to share with each other. Each of us has busy lives, families. We could have used the time with grandchildren, our spouses, etc. Yet we choose to focus this week on being together.
Truly this was a gift of time. Precious time, each of us only has so many years left on this earth, but we valued our friendship enough to say ” it is worth my time to have this uninterrupted time to share an adventure and sit around a balcony with a glass of wine and just talk”. This was special to me as I enjoyed the experience, but as I ponder that week, I now recognize in a new way just how valuable and precious it truly was. This was a gift of a lifetime to have this unique time together. I will always cherish it, and hope we can do something again in the future.
I hope you will take the time to focus on what you spend your time on. It shows what you value. What is important to you. You only have so much time and no choice can be returned or replenished. Once it’s spent, it is gone. Choose wisely, choose what matters, choose the things that make your life have purpose and give you pleasure. You only go around once, so enjoy the ride.