Finding Time

My Runner's World thought for the day was simply this: 

We find time for the things that are important to us. Period.
~Scott Douglas

And today's verse of the day is:

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
~ Psalm 90:12 

As we start another year, I'm sure most of us have goals or resolutions or plans.  Many of those plans, by the end of February, will be put into the "I don't have time" pile and discarded.  Before you get to that point, look closely at your time.  It's amazing how much time we can find if we really look!  Don't have time to read your Bible, but you're reading this blog? (Ha! That wasn't really planned when I started thinking about this post...)

Earlier this year, Les and I started a home Bible study with Jose and Maylee.  We would go to her mother's house on Thursday evenings and it was working out great.  Les had a job change that turned his commute into 75 miles each way and bam! Thursday evenings were no longer available.  We missed several weeks and it really bothered all four of us.  Finally, the only time we could get together was Sunday afternoons just before church.  Yes, it cut into my Sunday afternoon nap.  Sometimes it seems like we just get home and eat and it's time to turn back around.  But it has been worth it.  We finished the formal Bible study and are continuing on, digging deeper into the Word.  It's important to us.

Les had an exercise he did when he was coaching Bible Quizzers.  They frequently "didn't have time" to study.  It didn't take long to figure out that they had time for basketball, the mall, phone calls and goofing off.  Once they looked at their time, the excuses were gone.

I can't tell you what's important to YOU, only you can figure that out. Take a little time to find time.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
~ John Howe