Time is a funny thing. When things are bad it feels like it is dragging by like it’ll never end. When you feel like you are winning it is so fleeting that you don’t feel you have time to enjoy it. Time and Life are so closely intertwined in those respects.
We as a people need to understand the importance of both. When it comes to your life what are we doing with our time? Are you spending it how you need to, how you want to, or how you were called to? We’ve all heard the adage “no one lying on their deathbed says I wish I had spent more time at work.” For most I believe it’s true for others maybe not. I feel like most of us fall into two categories when we should find a way into the third.
Most of us spend time how we feel we need to. We go to work and work too hard at a job we need to provide for our families. Most of my time is spent just like this. Forty to eighty hours a week to make sure my kids have everything they need and most of what they want. Unfortunately during this time maybe the thing they want, time with me, suffers greatly.
We generally find time to spend doing what we want to. For each of us this is different. Some shop, or go to the movies, go out with friends, or just veg on the couch in front of the tv. For me it is riding my motorcycle, shooting guns, listening to music, or getting tattooed. But what time we don’t spend doing what we need to do we fill with doing what we want to do.
The area I am working towards now is spending time doing what we are called to do. No matter what you believe everyone has had a feeling of being pulled to do something. Like there is a task that you should be doing even when you can’t explain why. Sometimes these tasks are so far out of your character they can be scary, troubling, or even painful emotionally. These callings will drag you out of your comfort zone and force you to grow, to be a bigger person, a better person. They will reveal things that you can do that you never thought you could. If you are called to do something and you do it with a gracious heart you will be qualified to do it before you step foot on the field.
I think if we spend more time doing what we are called to do then we will find more time is available to do what we have to do and what we want to do. If we do what we are called to do then we will find more happiness than you can imagine, you will feel rewarded beyond your wildest dreams, and you will be able to help all of those around you more than you ever believed possible.
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