Sometimes humor can bring home a truth better than the most carefully prepared lesson or the most eloquent lecture, or the most moving sermon. Turn the shadows of the evening Into sunshine all the day. In one cartoon, a husband and wife are discussing her telephone habits. I want to use up every minute I paid for on this calling plan. But the truth is it's not time that's being killed but the opportunities, dreams, hopes, visions, activities, relationships, etc., that are being ignored and left unrealized or realized only in part.
Time is precious.
It's one of the great gifts of God. And we have the freedom to determine how we use most of them. Within these segments we must make a living and make a life. Typically, we assign 40 hours a week, somewhere around 2,000 a year, to the former and the remainder to making a life. That is where we usually place rest and recreation, and where relationships are nurtured.