11/24/08
Today I was up early today, though I had no real reason to be I woke up and knowing that I was behind in some stuff was unable to shut off the mind and go back to sleep. There was a special blessing to what might have otherwise seemed an aggravating lack of sleep, I looked out the window and saw the most beautiful sunrise I’ve seen n quite awhile. The pink glow seemed to cover the sky with a beautiful radiance, so I stood waiting for the sun to be fully up in order not miss any of the beauty. Then I got busy catching up on emails and other writings that I had neglected due to busyness of the previous few days. Even though I got quite a bit done I wondered do we ever really catch up. Isn’t it a fact that while we are trying to catch up on things not done in their seeming proper time, the things we would otherwise be doing are not getting done. Oy, the eternal conundrum, redeeming the time, can we really buy back the time we’ve not used wisely? Is it possible to stuff enough actions into a time span that we can actually get done everything that could possibly be done? I admit to feeling better getting caught up on what should have already been attended to but I didn’t at that point stop to think about what I would have been doing if I had no need to catch up. Another posit surfaced in my mind, does redeeming the time have anything to do with our actions? Do we not redeem time when we are simply spending it for eternal purposes? The Scripture says to ‘redeem the time for the days are evil.’ On that premise then walking righteously eschewing evil should be redemption of time not some sort of actions. We redeem time by being more fully in the moment (I know sounds New Agey) by being present in the world in which we live as well as with Yeshua being seated with Him in the Heavenly place. This is not accomplished by doing but by being. I suddenly realized that the catching up I needed was not getting things done but being caught up with Him no matter what I’m doing. In that kind of catching up, Abba makes sure I have time to do what needs to be done.
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