Looking for Misplaced Time

"The sooner I fall behind the more time I have to catch up."

What luxury if that statement were really true. Last winter I bought a sweatshirt from http://www.signals.com/ catalog with this idealistic statement on it. The problem is, this past six weeks I've lived my life as if this statement were true.

Because of a myriad of unusual things going on, I decided at the first of August to put all my writing and work (that didn't have immediate deadlines) on hold and concentrate on other activities—which also included cleaning every cabinet and drawer in my house. I thought by mid September we'd be through with our other activities; I'd also be through with cleaning; my life would be perfect, and I could start back on writing projects.

Oh, dear. What was I thinking?

Life doesn't work that way. We can't put life on hold until there's a Utopian time to do things. We don't just work on one goal at a time. Life is many goals: eat healthy, uplift people more with my words, keep my closets more organized so that I don't waste a third of my life looking for things, get my writing projects done not only on time but ahead of time so I won't be frazzled.

It's easy to do something well when we have tunnel vision and neglect everything else we should be doing. God gives each one of us the time we need. We have enough time to do everything that we should be doing. If we don't seem to have enough time, we need to evaluate what or how we are doing things. Sometimes we spend all our time being stressed because of all the things we have to do but aren't doing because we don't have time! Make sense?

Will I ever learn to be more constructive and less harried with the precious moments God has given me to use? Gradually, I'm getting better. If I can only live to be 875 years old, I think I'll learn to organize my time as I should.