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Golden Time
04/02/2010
Some additional thoughts on 'Golden Time'...
The only way I can seem to move forward at the moment is to ‘throw a Mary’...
Here's an account from Luke's Gospel, chapter 10 - at the home of Martha and Mary.
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"
"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
I share a similar concept on our time management programme - embracing it within a concept I call ‘Golden Time’ - that time of day when we are at our sparkiest. Stephen Covey puts it in another way - the need to put ‘first things first’ and he tells the story of filling a jar with rocks, then pebbles, then sand, then water. The story then gives the alternate ending where you put the items in but in reverse order. They won’t fit... even though they can. It seems there is only one way to make it work: to carry out our golden activities in golden time - rather than saving treasured activities as rewards at the dog-end of the day!
Like Martha I have been constantly worried and upset about many things - many urgent and important matters! However life comes from filling our ‘empty bowl’. Sitting quietly, walking in nature, giving time to learning and conversation, to music, to art... all these are opportunities for something ‘outside’ of us to come in an fill that inner emptiness that we all feel from time to time.
If you are reading this today - give yourself (and perhaps someone special in your life) the gift of 'Golden Time'. These are the good old days, just wait and see!
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