Making Time

When something is important we need to be willing to drop whatever we are doing to attend to it with everything we've got. It is so easy to be distracted. It is so easy to glance at that text or email popping up on our smart phone or to take that call that will only last a moment (or ten). It is easy to be busy, it is much harder to make time and to really let that happen. It's not about responding to the interruptions in life, though that may be part of it, it's about setting aside what obligations you might have and focusing, prioritizing, engaging. There are many things we should make time for. Play and being silly. Adventure. Prayer. Exercise. Sleep. Study. Friends. Vocation (perhaps the difference between saying, "vocation" verses "work" is that your vocation may not be your work and even if it is when your vocation if right it may not feel like work to you). We should make time for all those things, but aside from those we need to make time when things matter, not put them off or give up on them because they are inconvenient. We all have moments in life that simply to to be given over to. We have times that we need to set aside all else and be in that moment. We all need to make time and give ourselves permission to say yes and in saying that to say no to something else.