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Time. Everyone seems to have a love-hate relationship with it. We all crave more. It drags when you’re a kid counting down the days to Christmas. It flies by way too quickly with each passing year. Wishing there were more hours in the day doesn’t help. No matter how much we wish, pray or work, every one of us gets the very same 24 hours each day.
Like everyone else I’ve searched on and off for ways to use my time more effectively. From grade school on we’re admonished to develop good time management skills. “Time management.” It’s an oxymoron if ever there was one! No one can truly manage time – it keeps ticking away regardless of our best efforts. So that can’t possibly be the solution. In fact, I find that all those wonderful time management programs just make me try and cram more and more into my already jam-packed days.
Then I remember being told I needed instead to manage myself – to choose the most effective use of my time and energy by setting goals, prioritizing and following through. There’s definitely some merit to that, but it certainly isn’t the answer either.
Recently I came across the premise that we must learn to balance and manage the sources of our energy – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Again, there’s definitely some truth to this and I’m sure if I made a concerted effort, I could improve, but still, I don’t see this as “the” answer to the dilemma of not enough hours in the day.
I picked up a book by a pastor about – what else? – time management. He shared some interesting information that I think just may be the answer! Albert Einstein proved light is the only unchangeable thing in this universe, just as God, Who is light and also is unchangeable (James 1:17). He said that the only thing that could possibly cross the threshold of the speed of light would be called eternity. He proved the relationship between light and time. The closer you get to light speed, the more slowly time passes. A scientist in California explained this principle by using a mathematically proven model:
If astronauts traveled at 80% of the speed of light, flying away from earth for 15 days and then 15 days back, they would only have aged 30 days, but the people on earth would have aged 60 days. If they made the same trip again, but at 85% of the speed of light, they’d return to find the people on earth had aged 10 years to their 30 days! Finally, if they did this once more, only this time travelling at the threshold of light speed, which is as close to the actual speed of light without going beyond it, they’d return to find the earth had aged 30,000 years to their 30 days!
2 Peter 3:8 says: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. Literally!! So what does all this have to do with adding more time to your day? We are told in several places in God’s Word that we are to: walk while we have the light (John 12:35); live as children of light (Ephesians 5:8); and walk in the light (1 John 1:7).
So my solution to the whole time management problem is to consciously learn to walk in the light every day. Walking in the light isn’t complicated or just for Bible scholars – it is simply practicing His Presence, being aware of Him continuously throughout each day. It’s talking to Him about every thing you do, every problem you come up against, every choice you must make and every conversation and appointment on your daily calendar. Granted, I try to keep that running dialogue between us mostly in my heart so as not to attract too many puzzled stares. Taking a few short minutes at night to plan the next day, asking for His direction and then committing the day to Him first thing in the morning has made all the difference in the world. When interruptions and problems rear their ugly heads, I’ve found if I stay in peace and discuss it with Him, I end up accomplishing much more than if I fumed, stressed and strained.
So, try simply walking in the light and see how much more you accomplish in your allotted 24 hours.
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Hi, i bought the game my health coach for ds but i lost the pedometer while i was walking. Please tell me where i can buy another one online.
Thx
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