14 July 2001
Subject: As I Live Each Day
Dear Ones,
Can it be that another
Saturday is here already? Can it really be time to take
another marble out of the jar? My, where has the past week gone?
In thinking on life, in general,
and each day I live, in particular, I am amazed at how fast time seems to pass
as one gets older. I only have to look at my jar of marbles to realize that.
The passage of time seems most
evident when we watch a sunrise or sunset. One late afternoon as I entered my
office, I saw a beautiful, orange "ball of fire" sitting just above
the horizon in the Western sky. I gazed intently at the sun as it quickly sank
below the horizon. I didn't time it on my watch, but it was only a matter
of a couple of minutes.
That little experience set me
thinking about how one spends one's time. Then, I went back and re-read
something I had seen before:
If you had a bank that credited $86,400 to your account each morning, carried over the balance from day to day, allowed you to keep no cash in your account at the end of 24 hours, canceled out whatever part of that amount you failed to use, what would you do?
Try to spend every cent, of course! Well, everyone does have such a bank, and its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
The next morning at the same hour it rules as lost whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance and allows no overdrafts.
If you don't use the day's deposit, the loss is yours. There is no going back, no drawing against tomorrow.
How do you spend your daily surplus? Best wishes for an Enormous Return on your investment Today.
It makes one think not only about the passage of time, but asks the compelling question about how we spend our time on this Earth. May we all strive to answer that question in this manner....
If you had a bank that credited $86,400 to your account each morning, carried over the balance from day to day, allowed you to keep no cash in your account at the end of 24 hours, canceled out whatever part of that amount you failed to use, what would you do?
Try to spend every cent, of course! Well, everyone does have such a bank, and its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
The next morning at the same hour it rules as lost whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance and allows no overdrafts.
If you don't use the day's deposit, the loss is yours. There is no going back, no drawing against tomorrow.
How do you spend your daily surplus? Best wishes for an Enormous Return on your investment Today.
It makes one think not only about the passage of time, but asks the compelling question about how we spend our time on this Earth. May we all strive to answer that question in this manner....
As I live each day
may I do my part
to make one difference,
to touch one heart,
and through each day
may it be my goal
to encourage one mind
and inspire one soul.
Have a blessed day!!
Don
If Tomorrow Never Comes...