“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.” ~ Harvey MacKay quotes

Haloes! J

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.” ~  Harvey MacKay quotes

Jeremaia 33:3 

“Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not…”

Psalm 121:7-8

“The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and 

going both now and forevermore…”

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 to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.  How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to 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 ' on television?  I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gas up and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.' And my personal favourite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because we cram so much into our lives, we tend to schedule our headaches.  We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!  We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet... We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more 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 gets 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 my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord..  My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach 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. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?  ~ Forward email

Is jou skedule een van daardie waar jy moet beplan, om te kan ontspan??  Dan is hierdie stukkie hierbo NET vir jou (en vir my!)…  God gee elke dag aan ons die wonderwerk van tyd…  Wat ons daarmee doen, hang egter van onsself af…  Dis maklik om in “autopilot” al die take te doen wat gedoen moet word…  Hoeveel van jou dag is egter verrykend?  Hoeveel van jou dag spandeer jy tyd aan jou geliefdes?  Hoeveel tyd van jou dag spandeer jy om gelukkig te wees, en innerlike JOY te ervaar?  Hoeveel tyd spandeer jy om jouself te bekommer oor dinge waaroor jy geen beheer het nie?  Hoeveel keer in ‘n week sê jy vir die mense in jou lewe wat saakmaak dat jy hulle liefhet en dat hulle vir jou baie beteken?  Of leef ons maar van ons MOET doen lysies?  En sit alles wat ons nog wil doen op ‘n ander lysie?  En dis waar alles bly – op ‘n lysie… Moenie spyt wees oor dit wat jy nog altyd wou doen wanneer dit te laat is nie!  God sal die dinge in plek laat val soos wat dit moet wees, wanneer dit so moet wees… Al wat van jou verwag word, is om die oomblike en geleenthede wat aan jou daagliks gegee word, te BENUT en te waardeer en VOLUIT te lewe!  Mens is meer spyt oor die dinge wat jy nie gedoen het nie, as die dinge wat jy wel gedoen het…  LEEF – jy is NOU hier!

Blessings!

Anelli**