What to do with your 24th hour

Months and months of waiting and watching have concluded as the bless'd season of Fall is upon us. I celebrate because I have 2 days a week filled with football I could watch if I choose...and because there is a chill in the morning air which demands my lungs to breath in deep...because the pumpkin spice latte is back at Starbucks...because this time of the year is like the beginning of a long roller coaster ride. It is like sitting in line at 6-flags for an hour and a half just to get on the ride...and now I am just happy the coaster is moving!


Fall is my favorite time of year. It holds the the best of my memories from my past.


There is a price to pay for this amazing season. With fall comes so many more options in your life, things you can do with your time. As you get older, it seems like the many options suddenly become many commitments...and though fall brings a beauty to it...I am finding that it also brings a weight to my life.


There is much I want to do. There are many goals I want to reach, many tasks I must complete, many relationships I wish to develop...and I find myself butting up against...well...the 24th hour of the day. I am going and going and doing and doing, and suddenly I look up and realize that there is only so much time left in the day, and the time that is left will not suffice to reach my goals and complete my tasks and pour into my relationships.


With that reality in mind, I just ask a question: What do you do with your 24th hour? When you are left to acknowledge that you will not get done all you had hoped to get done...what gets your "last hour."

I ask this because I feel like every day I am faced with this question.

Do I give my last bit of energy and time in the day to my friends? To my work? To cleaning the house and maintaining it? To watching another episode of Lost or Studio 60? There are so many things to do...and yet each day I cannot get to it all.

I would write more...but I want to leave room for you to comment....and the roller coaster is about to start again. =)

Father God

A simple thought, probably not new to most of you.

I have been thinking recently, and I believe God is revealing this to me for a few reasons, that the key to human relationships is God.

Perhaps that seems like a very general, unhelpful statement. If so, let me put it in a way that is extremely clarifying and helpful. I desire relationships, connections with other people. I am starting to realize with a new intensity that the key to having the best relationships is knowing more of the God who is Father over these people.

I have been thinking about this, because it is also true in our human relationships with parents. The way to understand a child is to understand their parent. The key to knowing the heart of a person is to know the heart of their Father, which has helped form their own heart and passions.
More specifically, I have been thinking about this when it comes to guy/girl relationships. When a guy wants to pursue a girl, he pours a whole lot of his energy (if not all of it) into trying to win her over and woo her heart. This isn't bad (necessarily), but here is my thought...if I learn more of humanity by knowing the heart of God (The Father)...than perhaps I should spend some time and energy trying to know and understand the heart of an earthly father in order to win the heart of his daughter.

I am not saying this is the way it MUST be. I am just suggesting that maybe this is the best way...not to mention the fact that it makes a man interact with authority figures early on in "the pursuit."

Just a thought.

The formative thoughts and practices of a parent help shape the way a child will think and interact with the world around them.