Time is your greatest gift

"Mama, will you play with me? Mama, stop typing. Please play sand with me."

Those sweet little words from a three year old revolutionized the way I view time. What am I doing with each second? I'm certainly not living in each moment the way a child does. He lives in each moment with reckless abandon; after all, the present moment is all he experiences. Children live in the present, the here and now.

His words made me stop. I froze. I thought about time and the way I use it. I want to be more like him.

Time.

It's one of the very few things that money cannot buy.  You can't hurry it up, slow it up, get rid of it, or get more of it.

But you can waste it, squander it, cherish it, savor it, soak it in. You care in control of how you use it.

You cannot ignore time; our lives are set by it. We awake each day by a clock; a clock dictates our work day, our eating schedules; we make plans with a clock at the center. "I'll meet you at 6 at the pub." "Your doctor appointment is scheduled for 10:30 am." The clock rules our lives.

But only if you let it.

Why not... try something different. What if YOU controlled the clock? What if you told the clock how it would work for you, not the other way around? How, you say?

By never wasting one second. Time cannot be your enemy when it is your friend. And it all starts with a simple mind set change. Rather, than see time as a cruel master driving our day, what if you looked at time as a gift. A beautiful wonderful gift from God. And beautiful wonderful gifts are not enemies; we cherish those gifts and make sure no harm comes to them. The same goes for time.  

It is a gift.