It is not just about amassing all these things that we one day leave behind. Live life
that is grateful for all you have. A thousand voices crying for attention but only
able to listen to one.
It depends on how we view things. When we are young and believe that we have a
great deal of time on earth, we can be extremely impatient. When we are older with
less time left, we tend to be more patient. The world does not care about our time
preferences to complete a project. It demands our time now. We all have the same
168 hours a week that we can use for whatever is important to us. Deadlines rarely
bend for our personal convenience.
What is the single most critical task that will move our project and narrow our
scope? Doing the work and accepting the friction with ways that can set better
boundaries to keep others from hijacking our time. All projects require time. Will
the time spent be profitable mentally, physically, spiritually, or emotionally with
the finite time we have and use?
Sometimes we need to choose the goals of others to have harmony, but we still
need to look at our timeline of 70 – 80 years as one of our most valuable assets to
be and do that which is our calling and dream knowing the calling and dreams of
others are of value too.
Stuff comes and goes throughout life but let us value the real intrinsic importances
of; Family and friends, community and nation, God our Father, Jesus Christ our
Savior, the Holy Spirit that guides and directs our path to have a life of value, to be
blessed and sheltered, able to be kind, being content,
A Bible verse to meditate on, Philippians 4:8,
“whatever is true, whatever is noble,
whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if
anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things”.
Bruce Miller
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