ants

"It is not enough to be busy,

so are the ants.

The question is:

what are we busy about?"

~ Henry David Thoreau

i have been pondering Thoreau's thoughts on busyness & TIME for a bit now.  

it makes me reflect and wonder what is true & real about the concept of TIME: the decades and years and months and weeks and days and hours and minutes and seconds that God gives us to glorify him through.  

i keep seeking real understanding on what a Christ-like perspective on the topic of TIME really is... and what a the Lordship of Christ has to do with the choices i make with the TIME that God has given me to steward.  

i feel confident this is the route to understanding what i am to truly be "busy" about.  i plan on discovering that i have more things to learn and will be compelled to dream, think and act... to live life more fully ~ a fullness that has more to do with quality, not necessarily quantity.  

i anticipate the quality of my relationships will deepen, i imagine my need for things will lessen, i plan on my hope increasing, i hope that my love will lose its prejudices and unwillingness to be extravagant, ... BOTTOMLINE: i desire to decrease so that Christ can increase... and with that in mind, that he'd INCREASE the way i use the TIME that he has lent me.

the idea of TIME (what does "my time" really mean?!? is there even such a thing as "my time"?!?) has been on the forefront of my mind for the last year.  there is much more that i desire to discover... to learn about a Christ-like perspective and action with TIME.  this is just something i'm chewing on ~ more thoughts to come...