Time (Don't Say Manana if You Don't Mean It)

 If you’re like me … you want to save time because time is the one thing you can never get back!

 

Money … you can always make money … you just gotta be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen and bring the cash in.

 

Relationships … they come and go … but, with a little effort, you can always rebuild a broken relationship … especially if you’re the one who created the brokenness. If it’s worth having, it’s worth putting in the sweat equity to earn it back.

 

But time … no matter what we do … or don’t do … we’ll never get back time. It’s the one commodity that’s a limited resource in this life.

 

How do you spend your time? Or, maybe, how do you waste it? How do you invest it?

 

The prophet, Jimmy Buffett, sang, “There’s a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.” That thin line is time.

 

Think about it … what do you really do with your time?

 

The sacred text of Ecclesiastes states, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” (Ecc. 3:1 ESV). To what matters do you devote your time? Are they an investment or a waste?

 

Riddle me this: “I’m always moving, but I never run. I follow you wherever you go, but I’m not your shadow. What am I?” Time!

 

“The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?” Once again … time!

 

One more … “I am free, but priceless. You can’t own me, but you can use me. You can’t keep me, but you can spend me. Once you’ve lost me, you can never get me back. What am I?” You guessed it … time.

 

So, I’ve been attempting to find a means by which to maximize my time. Time is something everyone has, but no one can lose. Sometimes it’s long. Other times, it’s short. I can “buy time” but time really isn’t for sale, is it?

 

Time, my friends, is the great equalizer. It is the devourer of all things: birds, beasts, trees, flowers, friends, businesses, powers, governments, ideologies, life … and some might even suggest … death (but if you’re like me, you know death isn’t the end of time … it’s just a speedbump on the road towards eternity).

 

Any who … take some time consider time.