Time and Time Again....

Time.....
how can what was made to bless us have been twisted into such a curse!?
When you need it, there is never enough of it. When it is the only thing standing in between something you anticipate, it is your greatest rival! I have noticed this in a couple areas of life over the last month, relationships and sleep!
How can too much time spent in slumber be so detrimental to your mind? For me (especially coming out of my Starbucks employment season) less sleep has proven to be my greatest strategy. Although, as last night proved, there is always a minimum amount! How do you deal with waking up at 3 wide awake when your head hit the pillow less than 4 hours before??? HA! Yeah not fun :).
So we move onto relationships,
when your away from someone that you find joy spending time with, the clock moves at half the speed it used to. When you are finally with them again, it plays a cruel trick and the minute hand and the second hand switch places! Where is the happy medium when it comes to this youth defying concept? How do you start to enjoy what seems to bring you down?
Well..... after much thought I have found the answer.
A wise man once said to his student, "Do you think that you could go one year without sinning?" The student replied, "no sir I don't think I can." Again the boys mentor looked at him and asked "Do you think that you could go one month with out sinning?" The boy hesitated to respond with "Well, no sir I don't even think I could go a month." Once again the teacher asked a question "How about a week? Could you go one week without sinning?" The student really had to ponder it but responded quite honestly with " No I could not go one week without sinning." And yet another question was directed to the boy "Could you go a day without sinning?" This was proving to be overwhelmingly humbling for the young man judging the expression that came across his face as he answered "No I could not go a day without sinning" For the last time the well aged man asked his student "Could you go a whole minute without sinning?" This time, as if he had been waiting in anticipation the boy answered confidently "YES! Yes I could go a minute without sinning!" The mentor said to the boy "Then live life by the minute".
This is exactly the solution! Live in the moment of every minute of your life! Be where you are! Don't get caught up in anxiety and worry. Who is it that created time? (just incase you were wondering it was God). How do you find the blessing in it? By enjoying every minute and not just the ones we call "highlights".