A testifier last Wednesday night at church shared a new angle on not having enough time to get things done.
She said in effect that Einstein said there was no time, so that means we live in the now. She went on to say that when she feels rushed to get lots of activities done in one day, and she’s hurrying off to the grocery store, for instance, she slows down and tells herself, “I have plenty of now.” She quits rushing and enjoys the trip in prayerful peace.
You have plenty of now too. Enjoy it calmy!
Happy day,
Well now…. Isn’t this a pleasant way to start the day!
On a spirituality.com chat about ‘having enough time,’ the speaker brought out 3 helpful ideas:
1) Often, she said, when we feel we have too much to do and too little time and thus don’t know where to begin, she expressed that it’s never really an issue of needing more time — time is limitation, a mortal measurement. Rather, the need is simply to give our consent to whatever it is that is required of us. When we give our consent, we’ve opened our thought to accomplishing the duty more efficiently and we often find it demands much less of us than we had thought.
2)The second idea in regard to fulfilling different demands requires listening. This means shifting thought away from the disorienting confusion of too much to do and turning to God to hear His direction, to yield to His control, to glimpse our role as reflection, not human reactors. Listening requires practice. We need to cultivate listening – quieting thought, stilling complaint and respond to the spiritual intuitions coming directly from divine Love.
3)No matter what demand is placed upon us, do it with love! Just absolutely love the moment you are in, fulfill the demand with love, love, love. Even if it’s folding laundry, if that direction is impelled by God, then just love doing it. And move throughout your day, loving each and every quality of God you are expressing in each moment. Then, at the end of the day, we don’t have to measure our success simply by how many things we crossed off our list, but by how it was that we accomplished it — with love, joy, gratitude, expectancy!
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
I was told recently that fear, stress and anxiety are of the future, and we should be so grateful we only live in the Now. If we live in the now then those things can’t touch us. Thanks for this reminder.