Eight more sleeps!

Eight more sleeps …

Do you remember counting up the sleeps to some important event in your life? Christmas. Birthdays. Vacation. Finally getting out of school!!

Well … in our house we are counting the days down to February 11th , the day that Marilyn and I leave for Florida to do a four day retreat for pastors and their spouses. Did you catch that? It’s in Florida! We have a lot of work to do down there but it’s down there! In Florida!!

The only problem is living in the days that are between now and then: staying focused, doing good work, attending to life, etc. When you have some big thing you are looking forward to … if you are not careful … you can wish away the days in between and literally waste them.

And all of us only get so many days, don’t we? There is an unseen clock of life that keeps ticking even if we ignore it. To waste any days is to waste life. We don’t get those days back to live over.

So the Bible tells us “to number our days” for a reason. God wants us to get the most out of life by wasting the very least of it. And He wants us to make use of it wisely, productively, and redemptively in a world that could use some wisdom, some productivity and some redemption.

So even if you’re not going to Florida next week number your days and redeem the time. And if I can remember, I’ll bring you back a shell and a handful of sunshine! (How many more sleeps is that now!?)

…just thinkling