The Eve of new things( Or the last day of summer!!)

Tonight I sat in our newly made over yard with the candles lit creating chalk pictures on the flag stone's.  I started to feel a little sad, thoughts like 'its the last day of the holidays', 'back to work and school' and 'back to routine's and meetings' then I thought 'why do I have to think of it as the last day of everthing I could think of it as the eve of a new term or the eve of new things!'
Just because I am going back to work doesn't mean I have to stop sitting out in candle light or catching up with friends or going out for treats!  

This summer I have read a great book called When the game is over IT ALL GOES BACK IN THE BOX!! by John Ortberg its a great book very challenging I am going to share a page from it ( am i allowed to do that in a blog? Please tell me if I am not as I am new to all this!!)

Fill each square with what matters most

 

The board that you and I play on comes in the shape of a calender.

It is filled with squares, and each square is another day. We live

one square at a time. A very wise Dutchman by the name of Lewis Smedes wrote this several decades

ago.

 

I bought a brand new date book yesterday, the kind I used every year, spiral bound, black imitation leather covers wrapped around pages and pages of blank boxes.Every square has a number to tell me which day of the month I'm in at the moment.

Every square is a  frame for one episode of my life. Before I'm through with the book, I will fill the squares with classes I teach, people with whom I ate lunch, everlasting committee meetings, I sit through and these are only the things I cannot afford to forget. I fill the squares with things I do not write down to remember, thousands of cups of coffee, some lovemaking, some praying, and I hope, gestures of help to my neighburs. Whatever I do, it has to fit inside one of those squares on my date book. I live one square at a time. The four lines that make up the box are walls of time that organize my life. Each box has an invisible door that leads to the next square. As if by a silent stroke, the door opens and I am pulled through, as if by a magnet, sucked into the next square in line. There I will again fill the timeframe that seals me fill it with busy ness just as I did the square before.

As I get older, the squares seem to get smaller. One dat I will walk into a square that has no door. There will be no mysterious opening and no walking into an adjoining square. One of those squares will be terminal. I do not know which square it will be.

 

 

The author goes on to say we live such busy lives that we never seem to have the time for, important things like God, Joy and People and he encourages his readers to put them first and fit everything else in around them as everything else is tempory. I want to live like that not to cram as much in my days as I can to accomplish what is on my to do list at the cost of spending time with family or friends

Today on my list was to much out my youngest bedroom then spend the afternnoon with both boys I was interupted by a phone call hmmmmm our interuptions our God's opportunities I think that came from a Godly lady who liked to tick of lots on her to do list!! That phone call ended up me listening and praying and I felt more blessed that the lady who called me!!

I want to be an invester of what is important!!

Happy Eve of New things!! x