I've been thinking a lot this past week about how I spend my time.
How other people need my time.
How our world tries to demands how I spend my time.
How I choose to spend it... what I'm doing... what is it benefiting... who is it for.
Some of this is good, some of it is not so good.
I am trying to be intentional about my time and learning to manage it well.
Shutting my phone off, leaving it inside when we're outside. Not turning on the computer unless my boys are asleep, and setting a timer when I do. It's easy to waste an hour, or two, doing absolutely nothing, when there's so many other things I need to be focusing on.
Spending time in the Word more frequently, without distractions. Keeping up with the messes the boys make throughout the day, instead of letting it all pile up. Staying on top of laundry, dishes, meals. Being a better friend and live life with people. Being a better wife. To love without expectations.
So many times in an effort to be productive, I multi-task. Then I find myself struggling with not giving 100% to something, but giving 50% to everything. Is there a happy medium somewhere in that struggle?
I want to learn to soak in the beauty of silence. To throw away the hustle & bustle of this life, and find complete rest in Him.
3 years ago
Wow. Good stuff. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I think I'm going to start being more careful about this!
ReplyDeleteLOL....I just hit publish on a post where I said that I feel like I've got a million things on my to-do list, and I'm not doing any of them well, lol.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the answers, but I feel ya!
Agreed! If you want to work on the "spending time with people" part, you can always come visit us. We'd love to have TIME with you :)
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