Whatsoever thy hand finds to do, do it with thy might. ~ Ecclesiastes 9:10
Every year each person has 8,760 hours, or 525,600 minutes to spend. Most of us will spend about one third of the time sleeping, another third working, and a generous percentage eating. We will be busy, but even so, all of us will have spare moments. These are ours--to waste or to use to enrich our lives.
On a sundial in Tunbridge Wells are the words, "You can waste me, but you cannot stop me." How true! And you can waste your spare moments or you can give them to the Lord.
One way to stop wasting time is to study the things in your life and correctly evaluate them. Is the time you devote to them out of proportion to their importance?
Even in this rushing world you can find a wealth of moments in which you can pray. Those times when you wait for others, you can pray. Or if you walk to work, to church, or to school. And at night when sleep comes slowly, prayer will soothe.
You can enrich your life by making the moments valuable.
Prayer: Dear Lord, only one life, it will soon be past. Only what is done for You will last. Show me how I can make my moments count for you.
--Dorothy C. Haskin in "God in My Home"
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