REALLY Important
Am I the only girl who feels like I’ve lived two months in the last two weeks? If I could only have time in a bottle! I’m talking everything from REALLY important meetings to my sons REALLY important football games to my daughters REALLY important homecoming festivities to traveling to be with my little sister, who’s receiving REALLY important intensive care for cancer, to hosting my REALLY important sons 30 year birthday celebration all while enjoying time with my REALLY important daughter in love and my two AMAZINGLY important grandchildren; embracing a new season of investing into my REALLY important self by way of a Life Coach (scary)… stewarding appropriately ALL the follow up from our REALLY important Arise Conference, along with time management of my REALLY important staff…WAIT did I mention tending to my REALLY important husband (whew, full time job in itself)…this coming weekend is now my sons REALLY important homecoming and my first borns REALLY important 33rd birthday! Trust me when I say that there’s sooo much more that I’m not sharing for lack of awaking within you your very own personal PANIC ATTACK…phahaha!
In a life coaching session filled with more questions than one would care to answer, one word continued to surface as the effective tool that will actually govern the next 12 months of my life. A word that will turn concepts into tangible, practical tools effecting both my life and the girl’s lives I’ve been given stewardship of. Drum roll please…… the word is “intentional!” On this girls best day I’ve had some crazy good intentions, hence ran around like a chicken with my head cut off, accomplishing things that have definitely benefited my family and hopefully others as well, but often times left me frazzled, undone and definitely not cute!
For me it comes down to intention versus intentional! Let’s be honest, for all the variables of this life the thing we all have in common is 24 hours in each day, 7 days each week and 365 days each year… how much have I unintentionally squandered by not simply being INTENTIONAL!
Time is the equalizing factor, the starting line for each of us!
A wonderfully brilliant man, Leonard Ravenhill, who’s name we chose for our own son Wesley Ravenhill, once shared with me that he calculated the length of his days with sheets of paper representing each one. Upon entering his impressive library, there was a large stack of blank papers set on his very large and busy desk. The last thing he did before going to bed each night was to take the top sheet, crumple it up and throw it into the rubbish bin (he was English…from England)! He did this as a tangible way of numbering his days and to remind himself that he was disposable. I never forgot this and do think of it often as this man was an accomplished man, a man who was the epitome of the word intentional! I want to be this kind of girl and the beauty is I can and so can you! What will our marriages, families, churches and communities look like if by the end of just one year of living life on purpose, with purpose?
“Teach me to number my days carefully so that I may develop wisdom of heart” -Psalms 90:12
This process of culturing involves time . . . and time consist of days. By God’s grace I will be most intentional this year, day in and day out.