Our lives are often judged and measured in moments of time.
Think about the nanoseconds that often stand between you and pain of fame.
Details are always nice.
If you trail five feet off someone’s bumper going 60 miles an hour what makes you you’ll have time to stop when his break lights come on? Or did you forget that he takes his foot off the gas pedal at least three seconds before his break lights come on to alert you? In three seconds you’ve traveled fifteen feet with your foot still on the gas.
Too close, too fast to ever know what hit you.
Dialing five seconds sooner would have made you caller number three and winner of the vacation cruise your local radio station is giving away. Butterfingers.
If I’d pulled out of the corner gas station thirty seconds sooner I’d have been the third car that went through the green light as the drunk driver went through the red light.
If I could have run fast enough to take even three seconds off my time I would have had her hand before it slipped from it’s death grip.
If you’d been born 60 seconds sooner your birthday would have been today instead of yesterday.
Time shapes us. Life is based on the clock. No matter how far you run away, no matter what number or metric system you use, any where and every where in the world, you cannot escape. Escape is not the answer. Dealing, deciding, using time wisely.
If you’d gotten out of the water two minutes ago like your Mother said you’d have missed seeing the playful dolphins – or not been stalked by the shark.
It all comes down to the decisions we make with our time.
It’s not time and chance. It’s not fate. It’s how we make do with our time. It’s what God leads us to do with our time. It’s about the choices we make. To obey or disobey. To drive safe or take a few minutes off our time by speeding. By waiting or going. By missing or knowing.
We do the best we can and leave the rest up to God but please – make wise choices! It can save lives in a moments time.
The blink of an eye and your life can change. The blink of an eye and you can change someone else’s.
I saw a couple of twenty year olds together in a pick up truck on the side of the road watching the sun set that was lighting up the sky last evening. We all just passed them, we had schedules to keep, but they drew our eye and then we noticed the brilliant red and purple and pink sun set. They did something yesterday for who know’s how many people passed in the ten minutes they were there. They stopped to smell the flowers and maybe a few more than just me are thinking about them today and wanting to follow their example.
Be an example of wise choices in using your time.
