Today

WE are on baby watch now. Paul and Lauren are almost there. The due date is the 15th and we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of grandbaby #4$!!! and their first baby. It was just a few blinks ago that Paul was a baby, and just yesterday that he graduated from college and then got married. Wasn't it?
Time is a funny thing. It holds still for no one. What I do with my time today matters. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not yet here, so what I do today does matter. I won't get today back again, this is it. I'm not talking about watching time, and being a slave to the clock, but rather watching how I live out my time today. Do I love and reach out to others? am I living a life of integrity? am I generous? living my values? is my life today and the way I live it going to add to mine and others tomorrow in a positive way?

I love getting up early in the morning and grabbing that cup of coffee, I take some time alone to snuggle up with God, His word, and my journal. When I go to bed each night I am already anticipating and looking forward to the time the following morning. It is in this time first thing where I build on the foundation of my life, Jesus Christ. I can't do my day well without it. There was a day when I began by pitching myself into the day, rushing around, and at the end would throw myself into bed and get up to do it all over again. It wasn't a good time of my life, I was stressed and had no peace. Then in 1990 I began a practice of spending the early hours of each day with God. Reading, listening,seeking direction, and praying.....I found peace, true love and rest. It is here that I experience God in a way that words do not express. For me it is the single most important thing I do with my time because it is from my time with God that the rest of my life flows.

"Come to Me all who are weary and heavy laden, and you will find rest for your souls"