Are You Too Busy for Your Own Life?

. Have you ever noticed how your to-do list is always bigger and growing much faster than your list of things that you have accomplished and finished ? It seems to be happening to everybody , and I don't know about you , but to me it seems like it's happening faster , in a greater proportion , than it ever has before .

I was sitting at my desk and looked up at the calendar and I realized that we are almost in the middle of the year . Where did the first half go ? Just poof , it's gone . Then I asked myself well , what have you accomplished ? And I've only accomplished just a few of the things that I felt were important for me for this year . As I thought about that ,

I remembered a phrase that I'd heard quite a while back . It said never let your plans for the day keep you from experiencing God's unexpected blessings . Let's not forget to take the time to enjoy the life that God has given us , and I've forgotten how important that really is .

Psalm 90 , verse 12 from the message says this oh , teach us to live well , teach us to live wisely and well . We need to learn how to do that better . And a bunch of notes that I have , I found this one article called Time . I don't even know who actually wrote it , so hopefully they'll have some grace in me for reading it this morning .

It came from a man who said this my wife and I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy seize the moment . Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it , don't have it on their schedule , didn't know it was coming , or are too rigid to depart from their routine .

I got thinking one day about those people on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back . From then on , I've always tried to be a little bit more flexible . How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out for dinner until after something had been thawed ?

Does the word refrigeration mean nothing to you ? How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched Jeopardy or the hockey game on TV ? You need to take advantage of those opportunities . You need to seize the moment .

He said my wife cannot count the times that she's called her sister and said how about going to lunch in half an hour ? Her sister would gasp and stammer and say I can't . I've got clothes in the laundry , my hair is dirty , or I wish I had known yesterday , or I had a late breakfast , or it looks like rain .

And then there was my wife's personal favorite it's only Monday . My wife's sister died a few years ago and they never did have lunch together . Because we cram so much into our lives that we tend to schedule our heartaches ,

we live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect and we fail to seize the moment . We'll go back to visit the grandparents when we get Stevie Toilet trained , or we'll entertain when we replace the living room furniture . We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get the two kids out of college .

Life has a way of accelerating . As we get older , the days get shorter and the list of promises to ourselves get longer . One morning we awaken and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of I'm going to , I plan on and someday , when things are settled down a bit .

When anyone calls our seize the moment friend , he is always open to adventure and available for trips of any kind . He keeps an open mind to new ideas . His enthusiasm for life is contagious .

If you sit down and talk with him for five minutes , man , you're ready to get up and climb a mountain or go on a road trip , or even find the nearest place to go bungee jumping . I have not had ice cream in 10 years . I love ice cream . It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my gut with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process .

The other day I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker . If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home , I would have died happy . Now , go on and have a nice day , not something on your should-do list . Seize the moment . What are the conversations with your family and friends that you've missed because you were too busy ?

What are the opportunities that you have said no to because there's been too many things on your schedule and you decided it was going to be too much trouble ? God has given us this life for us to experience his full goodness , his blessings , his joy . We need to embrace the opportunities that will make our lives even better .

It's the people and experiences around us that God will use to bring joy and peace and comfort into our lives , and may Psalm 90 , verse 12 , be our prayer . Oh Lord , teach us to live well , teach us to live wisely and well . Have a wonderful day , my friends , and we will talk again tomorrow . Wonderful day , my friends , and we will talk again tomorrow

. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday , right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac .