525,600 minutes.
525,000 moments so dear. 525,600
minutes- how do you measure, measure a year? (From the musical “Rent”, yeah, I’m
a musical junkie)
A shout out to my pastor, Pastor Bill, you gave us a little
something to think about this week.
There are 10,080 minutes in a week.
How many of those minutes do we use to serve God or just try to do
something good. Now I’m not going to go
all preachy on you, not my style. But it
has set the wheels a spinning and those hamsters in my head seem to be training
for a marathon.
If you think about it, if you work 40 hours a week and let’s
say you are one of the lucky few that actually gets 8 hours of sleep each night
plus getting ready for work and fixing supper each night (guessing and hour for
each) , that’s 6,600 minutes just working, sleeping, eating, and getting
dressed. That leaves you with 3,480
minutes of your week open to a variety of things. Now if you are a mom and have
kids, that number is pretty much gone before you know it. Plus if you are trying to get healthy and
adding an hour each day to get sweaty, well there goes another 420 minutes,
which brings you to 3,060 minutes filled with what is your daily normal life!
(By the way, I had to use a calculator; I’m not a math whiz at all)
Isn’t funny, how we think we have all this time, and then
when we take just a few moments to catch our breaths and focus on the present
we realize that it goes by in a flash.
Now I work out 6/7 days a week for at least 40 to 90 minutes each time
come heck or high water. I think if I
skip just one, it’s a slippery slope to skipping another, then another and
before I know it, I’m back to where I started.
I know me and I know how my brain and I used to come to terms, it would
“suggest” working out and eating well, and my body would agree, but the
laziness genie would pop out of her bottle and somehow grant my unspoken wish
and before I realized it she had granted me out of my original goal and
replaced it with her easy, who cares if you can’t zip your jeans, your sweat
pants still fit and you have a man, so why go through all the hassle! That genie is tricky, because all it used to
take was a few “minutes” sitting, thinking I’m going to get up and do that, and
before you know it an hour has passed and you no longer have the gumption to do
anything. Well that is no longer my m.o. (method of operation)
We are blessed with a new day every day! Now I will admit to
you I didn’t wake up this morning singing to the birds or dancing, but I did
wake up and started chatting with my kitties as they twirled around my legs
acting as if I haven’t feed them in a month.
But if I don’t get up, they come and get me. The one minute where my son, still half asleep
bundled in a blanket, said, “Thanks Mom, love you too much”. Just the one minute where my hubby decided to
make me smile and gave me a kiss and wished me a good day. Or when a co-worker gave me hug or is always
willing to supply me with any goodies I desire in order to make my day a little
better. This is not something that takes
a lot of time. Minutes, sometimes, only seconds
to smile or hug someone and to you it’s just a minute, to the person who
receives it, it’s so much more.
I think everyone “deserves” to feel like they matter! I smile to people I don’t know, I wave to
people at the stop lights and have even had the impromptu dance off at stop
lights, which I have to tell you was a surprise but extremely fun (and if you
catch me jamming to my tunes in my car, feel free to wave and honk and even
hold up a napkin with the number 10 on it to tell me how awesome my car dancing
is). I talk to people on elevators and
smile to those I pass on the sidewalk and on more than one occasion I’ve been
known to strike conversations with complete strangers in the grocery line only
to leave them with a smile because let’s face it, I’m quite the
conversationalist and love to leave on a laughing note.
So even though our days are filled with kids, work, commitments,
sports, working out, and life in general, sometimes if we just take a MINUTE
out of the 10,080 we get each week and chose to use it on someone else, just
because, not expecting anything in return, we gain so much in return. I know some of you are out there saying, “I
don’t have a minute to spare?” Seriously
you don’t have a minute to spare to smile at someone, wish them Good Morning,
tell them they look nice, hold open a door, wave, send a text, give a hug, or
just say hey? Well it has taken you more
than 2 minutes to read this blog, and I’m willing to have you sacrifice reading
the rest of it in order for you to look up from your device of choice, and
smile or say Good Day to someone!
As someone who has lost many people close to me from a young
age, I know too well that time is short.
And there are only so many minutes in day, a week, and a year. So I love that you take time out of your busy
schedules to read my rantings. I realize
it only takes you a few minutes, but when I see how many have viewed my blog, I’m
elated. When you take your “minute” to
tell me in person how much you love to read them, I’m through the stratosphere.
So you see just by you reading this, you are giving me a minute of your time
and YOU are giving me happiness! Which
makes me want to write more and make you smile, so you can see the amazing
circle of goodness that can be created.
So make every minute of your day count! 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.
So I wish you a peachy rest of your week. I hope all your minutes are filled with
happiness and hope.
Until next time my friends!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment