Yesterday, we launched our new series called "Life in the Margins." The central message from yesterday was that each of us were created to connect with others, but we have, in essence, sucked the life out of living by trying to maintain hurried and harried schedules. We simply don't have time. Many of us have uttered these words, "If I only had more hours in the day." I believe that the problem with our days is not that we don't have enough hours, but that our hours are crammed with too many unimportant things.
I was recently reading from a book called "The 4-Hour Work Week." In the book, Timothy Ferris, makes this observation:
"It's easy to get caught in a flood of minutia and the key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities."
Most of us do not want to hear this because we do not want to think that our priorities are out of order, and we may not even believe them to be so. Our competency for the week is STEWARDSHIP - I believe that everything I am or own belongs to God. If we have been given 24 hours a day, how well are we stewarding that time?
If fun flies when you're having time, then how are we doing at having time? What parameters are we placing on our families to ensure that we have time? What does it mean to have time? And what in the world would I do if I did have time?
These are some of the questions we will be discussing over the next couple of services. If you missed yesterday and you want to hop into the discussion, listen to the message here.
We have told our kids they can only do one sport/event per season so that we don't get over scheduled. They are very young now and this may not work as they get older, but I think it is a start toward making time.
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