The Gift of Time
Written by Lynn on April 4th, 2007Time is more precious than gold. Once spent, it cannot be gotten back! I don’t think I really respect that fact like I should each day.
Robert Orben said:
“Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”
The navigator. That’s powerful. My place for the largest part of each day is of the highest authority in our home. I am the navigator.
I am responsible for not only what I do with the time I am granted today, but also for what my children do with this day.
Left to themselves, my children would easily squander the entire day with video games. Perhaps allowing them to do so would give me some valuable time to get some important things done. But what is that doing to them??
Worse still, what if I allow them to squander the day playing video games so that they are out of my hair while I squander the day playing on the internet?
With that, I’ll close. A good picture book is close at hand. Breakfast as a family awaits. A yard full of nature begs to be admired. Some quiet time of meditation and re-evaluation and journaling are necessary to bring order to what we will do with this day.
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