You don’t have time?

We will NEVER have “enough” time. Because we can’t “have” time. Time is not something that can be had by us humans. Time isn’t even real! It’s just something we humans created to make our lives more convenient.

Time is like a handful of sand…the harder we try to grip it, the more it slips through the cracks between our fingers.

So…if we can’t have time, what can we do?

Well, we can make time. The truth is that we are the creator of time.

Are you too busy to return calls, to fold the laundry, to spend time with folks instead of being on your phone or computer? Maybe even too busy to get 8 hours of sleep?

When we ask people “How are you?” the reply is often “I am busy…I’m swamped…etc.” Rarely do we hear “I do a lot of things that I enjoy”…or “I need help as I’m feeling exhausted.”

When we say that we are too busy or have no time, it just shows that we don’t have priorities!

We could become more aware of how often we claim to be busy. We could limit our multitasking. We could delegate. We could limit the distractions from our gadgets. We could even get enough sleep!

Since the only “time” is right now, we cab choose our focus-whether it be on

• a goal we are pursuing,
• a connection we wish to strengthen,
• a subject we wish to explore.

Faith is trust?

“Faith” is trusting the process. We know that SOMETHING is making our heart beat right now, our lungs function, the grass grow, and the planets spin. So whether we admit it or not, what we have is FAITH. We have faith that our heart will keep beating and that we’ll wake up tomorrow morning. We […]

Vacation complaints…

Vacations are a national tradition (as is this perennial childhood complaint!) This post is of actual complaints received by “Thomas Cook Vacations” from dissatisfied customers. I think you’ll be as amazed as I was by them! “We booked an excursion to a water park but no one told us we had to bring our own […]

The “gift” of our breath

The phrase “take a deep breath” is misleading. The breath isn’t something we can just “take.” Breathing is a gift, a miracle, offered to us over and over again. Yet much like our health, we often take it for granted right up until the moment we no longer have it. “Remember to breathe” means remembering […]

July 4 humor!

Bringing you some humor for this special day of days. (And if it seems like it came from one who used to be a teacher, well, you’re right!) Father William, the old priest, made it a practice to visit the parish school one day a week. He walked into the 4th grade class, where the […]

The tide does come in!

No matter how bad our current situation appears to be now, nature guarantees a turn for the better. Change is always happening. Nature’s cycles are dependable. We can’t rush a seedling; pulling on it to make it grow faster will cause it to die. We can’t rush a baby; whevever possible, we have to let […]

A child’s story…

A little girl in second grade underwent chemotherapy for leukemia. When she returned to school, she wore a scarf to hide the fact that she had lost all her hair. But some of the children pulled it off, and in their nervousness laughed and made fun of her. The little girl was mortified and that […]

No pun intended?

The pun (also known as paranomania) is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term for an intended humorous effect. You can decide if you think these are funny or just punny! Writing my name is cursive is my signature move. I lost my job as a stage designer. I left […]

Which will you choose?

Before Thomas Jefferson said it, Epictetus (the Greek Stoic philospher) said that every situation has two handles-one that is an effective way to bear it and the other a way that is unsustainable. We choose, he said, which handle to grab. We choose whether we will try to see the best in people or the […]

Rule Number 6

Rule #6 is one of the fundamental rules of life…Do you know what it is? Have you read The Art of Possibility by Benjamin Zander? If not, you should! Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man burst in, apoplectic with fury, shouting and stamping and banging his […]