They Thought The Had More Time

I have to apologize to you for seemingly deserting this blog.  I have been dealing with some time consuming and moderately debilitating health issues.  It has been something of a struggle trying to balance doctor's appointments, treatments, and a 50 hour a week job plus still be part of my family and church.  Quite honestly, I'm not sure that I've done any of them well but that's not what I want to talk to you about.

I want to talk to you today about why I'm back.  First off, (that's one of those phrases we use down South) because if there are only five of you out there who read this blog or if there are 5,000 of you, you're each one important to me.

Second, I'm reading a book called "They Thought They Had More Time".  Now it's about the second coming of Christ, but, as much as I love to talk about Christ’s second coming, that's not what we'll talk either. No, it's the book title that struck me about the way I'm spending the days of my life. I could let this health problem control the  way I spend the days of my life or I can control them and continue to do the things that are important.

The name of this blog is Southern Comfort, and the idea was to give you comfort and the assurance God's willingness to stay with you in the middle of your problems and the first thing I did when problems came into my life was to be "too busy" focusing on the things going on in my life.  Sorry!

Don't get me wrong.  Your health is important and it needs your attention as long as your attention can have positive effect on the health issues of your life. There comes a point though, in every issue where what can be done has been done and the constant attention to the issue becomes a distraction to the living of our life.

I recognize that every issue, every distraction, is not the same and the immediate time they claim is not the same but we must not let them become time vampires of our lives.  

Another marvelous little booklet I read in college was called "The Tyranny of the Urgent".  The premise of the book was that we tend to let our lives become dominated by tending to the urgent things in our lives instead of doing the truly important things.

As the days of my life pass (and all of us are watching the days of our lives pass) I don't want my legacy, the things my children and my friends and even you remember about me, to be my problems or my health issues or the TV shows I watched or the video games that I played or that I wasted my life on frivolous distractions.  I want my legacy to be how much I loved my God and my family and helping people find their way in our crazy world and I have to get back at that now because I don't want to find myself in the group that "They Thought They Had More Time".