Friday, September 10

My Time

I have found that time is quite an interesting thing in my life.  I may be wrong, but I have come to realize that it perhaps is the thing which I most pridefully attempt to possess.

"It is the unexpected visitor (when he looked forward to a quiet evening), or the friend's talkative wife (turning up when he looked forward to a tete-a-tete with the friend), that throw him out of grear.  Now he is not yet so uncharitable or slothful that these small demands on his courtesy are in themselves too much for it.  They anger him because he regards his time a his own and feels that it is being stolen.  You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own.'  Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours."-C.S. Lewis, the ScrewTape Letters.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interuppted by God."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together.

Who is the Lord of your time?

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Brian Owen's picture

Ouch!

Jamin,  this hits WAY to close to home for me.  As a soon-to-be father (we're adopting from Ethiopia!) of one or two (or three, if my wife has any say in the matter, and she does) children, my life is about to become regularly interrupted in ways I can't even fathom.  Though I'm excited about being a father, I find myself wanting to hoard the remaining time that my wife and I have with just the two of us.  And I find myself growing more "stingy" with "my" time as I've gotten older.

This was a reluctantly welcomed reminder that I am not the Lord of my time and that I can rest in the fact the one who is Lord of time has an infinite amount of it.