Negotiating the clock is a major challenge in this present age. The calendar is no easier. Communication galore carries with it great value and, then, constant threat. We are blessed to be in touch. Relationships strengthen through being in contact. We are also threatened by numerous distractions which pull us away from necessary labors.
Interruptions are a profound part of our daily pattern. The phone rings or the iPhone beeps. And occasionally that old-fashioned introduction by a knock at the door occurs. Whatever the tool, surprise communication bombards our days second by second.
As we try to accomplish intended goals we find ourselves in a fight for the ability to simply focus. Yet, we must...or else go nuts.
How can we simplify in a complex time?
We learn to say yes those things that seem to be our God-assignments and no to the many opportunities which beg our attention. Saying no is both the challenge and the victory.
Surely your emails and texts light up with requests. And just as certain, our hearts wish to expand that others--the many legitimate needs of these very wonderful others--may be encouraged. We are all about blessing others.
There must a be a seriousness, though, that we may (or have) become spread too thin. Of course, I get it. Such admonition is precisely what the lazies want to hear. But I speak of the servants among us. We must run our schedules and not the other way around.
Just as our food-intake would be blessed by a disciplined diet, so would our activity-intake benefit by our disciplined scheduling.
If we are going to be a people of efficiency and productivity, we just must focus on the items where we serve well while abandoning the need to please men by our endless offers to cover too much ground quite ineffectively.
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