Time

TIME

As we go on with our daily lives, we continuously watch the time. When the alarm goes off, we reach to shut it off or we hit the snooze button. This is the moment we start watching the time for the day. When we do this small gesture, do we stop and think about time for each other? How many times during the day do we stop, and say to ourselves, we need to tell our children we love them, the significant other, or our parents? Do we ever stop and tell our friends we love them? Most importantly do we take the time to tell God we love him and thank him for the blessings he has granted us?

I am as guilty as anyone. I get up, check my email, shower, dress, and holler at the kids to get up and get ready. Not once do I stop and realize what a blessing the Lord has giving me. I have two wonderful children, loving parents, and friends. As I drive down the road to work, I meet the same people, in the same vehicle. I judge at that moment the time. I meet them sooner, I am early, or they are early. Later meeting is one of us is running late. This is when I do take a minute to look around notice the sun is coming up. Birds are flying around, rabbits are out eating grass, and squirrels are running in the trees.

I think back to what I have learned through the years of my life. God created the world in seven days, yet in a few minutes you can see most of what he has created. After a few days of seeing this, I started thinking about the thing that is with us every day.

TIME

Do we use our time wisely? Do we stop and think about what we do daily? Do we tell the ones around us that we love them? Do we give a stranger a smile to make their day brighter? Do we take the time to laugh at something funny to brighten up our day? Do we take the time to care about the people we work with, or do we just do our job, and care about only our problems? After several days of soul searching and analyzing myself, and the people around me, I have found several answers to my questions. I realized how the world has changed around us. I also realized how the people around me has changed. When I saw the changes, I realized, I had changed over the years to match the changes the world has made. But then the question came to my mind has the world really changed or is it still the same? Yes, the world has changed, but the world changed with our help. It didn't really change overtime by itself. There is that word again, TIME. Everything revolves around time.

So, what will it take for us to enjoy the time around us? When God created the world, he didn't add streets, buildings, vehicles, power lines, or anything else to help us survive today. Can we survive today without all the changes in the world? I realized my children depend on the electricity just as much as I do. Could they survive without the TV, the radio, the electronic games for the computer? If we had to, could we again, raise our own food, cook with wood, wash clothes in the stream and dry outside, or even learn to walk to work.

The more I thought about the changes in the world, I see how we have become dependent on things that make our own lives easier. Drive the car other than walk. Use a microwave other than wood. Turn on the air other than we use a hand fan. Throw the clothes in the washer and dryer, other than heating the water, hand washing, and hanging our clothes outside to dry on the clothesline.

Would the cost of things around us go down, if we weren't so dependent on the things that would make our life easier? Could we all change your life to better include the time we use? Could we take the time out of our lives again to help our neighbors? Could we take the time to tell our family and friends we love them?

I started to change myself. I decided if one person changed, and maybe guided the people around them, maybe things would change with time. I smile when I greet people face to face. I waved to the people I meet on the road daily. I also learned that how to say I love you to the people I care about. If I didn't tell the people I care about, I love them, would they know? If I was to get killed in a car wreck on the way to work, or the way home, who would know I love them? Slowly I realized that I had to change myself and the way I was.

I decided to raise my kids with a touch of the old ways, as well as, the touch of the new ways. I have prayed that through the time of raising my children, they will learn the old ways of hard work and respect. I want them to be willing to help the neighbors as well the family. I learned with time, that when the older family members pass away, you soon only have your immediate family to lean on. I have instilled this in my children, to love each other, because they will only have each other after the older generation passes on.

Though the new generation is totally different in its mannerism, I have taught my children the old ways. Nothing is as important as the husband respecting the wife or doing small gestures for her. I always and morals for a lady. Though today's society has been pulled away from the old ways, I hope and pray that the love and respect for each other will obviously remain with each change in time.

In any relationship, there must be a mutual trust, and understanding, built as a solid foundation through time. When either of these are broken, sometimes it is hard to repair the damage. I have found out from a bad marriage that it takes time for each of the persons involved to heal. Though some of the scars may never heal. When a person is verbally abused, the pain will heal with time, but they are never forgotten. Six years have passed, and the scars I carry from my marriage have healed with time. Yet they will always be there. With the help of my parents', friends, and the church, I have learned how to deal with the hurt and the pain.

Now with the help of time, my children, as well as myself, have healed. We now can laugh, tease, play, love, and most of all be loved.

Dear Lord, I pray that time will heal all that is sick or hurting. Lord, please guide us on our path and show us each place we should put our foot to step your way. With the love in my heart, help each of us use the time we are granted, to help us enjoy the ones we love. Amen

Now I understand the meaning of the word TIME. TIME surrounds us. We live with that every day. I also known now, to thank the Lord each day for the time he has granted me. For without the time in our lives, where would we be now? I use my time wisely, and I never miss the opportunity let the loved ones around me, know how I care about them, because tomorrow may run out of the most precious thing that is around me. TIME