Okay so it’s been awhile and I know it but cut me some slack it’s been quite busy and I have personally been going through some heavy stretching. Now that is out of the way I can move on…
How many of you have a problem saying no? How many of you ever get to the point to where you feel so overwhelmed you might explode? Or maybe you feel like if you only find the time to do (this) my whole life would be different? Well you’re not alone welcome to the club. I have had more conversations lately on the subject of time and the management of it. Currently I am working on some ministry concepts, recently felt lead to teach a class in our school, and about 10 chapters into writing a book and all this while working a very busy 40-60hr work week. Now right off the bat you can see the work week is an area of concern because 40 is acceptable but the extra 20 is probably me saying yes to thing I should have said no to. While all this is going on I keep asking myself why isn’t anything being completed and where does the time go. (Which of course leads to me get ticked off at others even though the problem lies with me) I just finished talking to a young man I’m real close to about this time management issue and I jumped into the cheesy “ let write it down and see where all your time goes.” As we wrote the time spent and the time remaining I realized this gig wasn’t so cheesy after all it actually started putting perspective on things. Once we figured out where the extra time was we made plans to spend it doing the things we truly desired to do and that was study and zoom in on the things we are aiming for.
This entire subject still has to do with learning to say no so you can accomplish the things you already said yes to. All of us have a destiny and that creates a desire which create mission which requires steps. Once we have accepted the call on our lives and begin to discover our destiny’s it is up to us to keep our eyes on the prize. Rob Bell’s latest Nooma series number twenty called Shells is a good teaching on the subject, for those who don’t have these teachings 1. Get them and 2. Get them. (www.nooma.com ) I will give you a blurb out of this one about his family at the beach collecting shells and his son sees something he really want quite bad and when given permission seems to have some issues acquiring it. The problem his son states is he can’t grab it because his hand are full of shells. Wow how many times have we been there? I was moved by this store because that is where I find myself as well as others around me wanting to do something so bad but because we can’t say no to certain things (time management) we fill ourselves up preventing us from accomplishing anything we want.
I’m sure there will be more on this subject to come so stay tuned. Remember to share your heart with some near you the you feel you can trust it is amazing how you will discover we are all a lot alike, more than you could imagine. All this reminded me of a song from some time ago that just seems to fit, “If I could save time in a bottle”…