“Time doesn’t hear and time doesn’t care, time doesn’t wait, no time isn’t fair. Time is a healer, time is a thief, and everything it steals it keeps, and it just moves on down the line and there’s nothing left behind, nothing but time.”

Those lyrics come from another little known, favorite song of mine, by Doug Stone. I love this song, for it has so much truth and meaning to it.

What do we do with our time? Since my husband died I have had many things that tug at me. Go here, go there, take care of this, take care of that and coupled with that is upkeep of my car, personal business, work…….and ’round and ’round it goes. A never ending activity list, with no time to think about what I was doing nor where I was going. No time for meditation on His Word, and by that I mean, taking time with His Word, and you can’t do that when you are in constant motion.

One day after being pulled in so many directions I stopped and asked myself. What is important to me? Which things take priority in my life? Are they necessary? Where am I going? Is God first? It was then that I started eliminating things that just weren’t priorities in my life. I’m sure that some of you feel the same as I. You just want to stop the Merry-go-round and get off. Too many things, too many places to go, just too much of everything, and along with these activities you get irritable, frustrated and tired.

I then remembered Martha in Scripture. “Now it came to pass, as they went, that He entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard His Word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to Him, and said, Lord, dost Thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, But one thing is needful and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:38-42

I believe at one time or another we all identify with Martha, I know that I do. We get so caught up in the mundane things of this world, that before we know it, we are on that merry-go-round of activity and place spiritual matters at the end of the list, because we are just so caught up in this world.

I went back and eliminated activities that were unnecessary. My priorities are: God first. Others second and Myself, last. ….and even now I still have to say no to activities that are of no profit to my soul and to keep that list short, for people will pull at you from every direction demanding time, but, we are human and cannot do everything, and it is then that I have to tell them no. Meditating comes first, along with prayer. It is there, during prayer, that I gain the strength to face the day and gaining peace from Him as well as comfort and I am calmed.

“Be still, and know that I Am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalms 46:10

What are your priorities?

“…..and just like dust we settle in this town. On this broken merry-go-round…. And ’round and ’round and ’round we go, where it stops nobody knows…..And it ain’t slowing down this merry-go-round.”

Eileen Light