We can’t manage time but we can mark it and carve our initials in it.
When we awaken and begin our day we have a choice to say “yes” to this day our Lord has provided. Will you mark the moments by showing love, grace and mercy to your isolated neighbor, the person that narrowly missed hitting your car in his rush to get wherever he was going, the exhausted individual caring for someone you hold close to your heart, or the loved one with whom you’ve become exasperated?
Will you carve your initials in the words of praise and gratitude that leave your lips? On the heart of one you’ve chosen to forgive, thus having theirs marked on yours as you in turn are forgiven?
We cannot manage time and conform it our will; but we have the power to choose how it affects our lives. We are almost half way through this month and it has not evolved into what we had planned. By this time, we should have been in our second week with family and friends back home in south Texas. Our Lord decided differently. We have been unable to mark time as we had hoped but we were given an opportunity to carve our initials in its passing in other ways.
Today may not unfold as you had envisioned. How and where will you carve your initials in it?
Psalm 90:12
Teach us to number our days, that we gain a heart of wisdom.
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