Precious time……

I will be in airports all day today, getting in home around 10:00 p.m. this evening. Days in airports could be the biggest waste of time in your life, but it doesn’t have to be.  One bad thing about our lives today, is they are jam packed with have-to-do lists!  When you’re stuck in an airport you have to find things to do until your plane leaves.  It offers up time for thinking about more important things than the to do list!  A few years ago, actually a decade or more ago, I read a great book called The Second Half.  It dealt with what a man does with the first half of his life and what he should do with the second half.  The books premise was that many of us, maybe most of us, spend the first half of our lives trying to get ahead, establish ourselves professionally, make money, buy things, and have fun!  Somewhere around middle age you realize that while none of those things are intrinsically bad, they are not what is the best we can do.

The second half is best spent thinking outwardly towards others and less inwardly about self.  It’s probably pretty hard for a young man to do this, it takes a measure of maturity that doesn’t usually come along early in our lives.  At sixty six, and very soon to be sixty seven, I am definately in the last quarter of life.  I want to spend more time looking outwardly!  This is how I plan to do it;

1.  Stay in the Word of God and learn from Him.  I know nothing that is suggested for my life there will be anything less than the best.

2.  Stay on my knees in prayer and fellowship with Him.  I know that I will never get off track if I’m listening to Him in my spirit!

3.  Giving my very best to Sherelene, my adult children and my grandchildren.  Putting others first.

4.  Asking the age old questions in everything I do;  What would Jesus do, and and I doing unto others as I would have them do unto me!

5.  Finding the joy in life, and appreciating all the incredible gifts from my God!!!  

6. Develop a “Thankful Heart”!  Spend some time everyday considering just how fortunate I am and how much God has shown His love to me.

7.  Know how blessed I am with such wonderful friends, and be sure and be that kind of friend right back!

So in 10 or 11 hours I will be home, plenty enoguh time to pray about this list!

Blessings,

the pilgrim