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Savor the irony.  I’m on a deadline, late for publishing this post (which becomes a column in the printed newsletter).  The topic is about the new message series, “Time for Life.”  The core truth in the messages is God wants us to make time for what really matters.

Why am I late?  My workday was sliced on Monday by printers at home that wouldn’t work and children who had to get homework printed out for school (No longer can we say “The dog ate my homework” - Now we say “my inept father couldn’t get the printer to work”).  My son had to get his senior picture re-taken.  Daughters had to be taken to dance.  Tuesday was working on schedule until I found out about an unexpected surgery I needed to go to.  I went and decided to go ahead with my hospital visits.  My ever efficient assistant called me and asked if I was on my way to my 2:00 pm appointment - AUGGHHHHHHH!  I had forgotten - so I dashed out of the hospital, drove frantically back to church, apologized profusely, went home, took my daughter back to school for a cross country meet, went back to the hospital for the visits I didn’t get to make, went back to the high school for the meet itself, made 10 phone calls during the trips, got supper ready, went to Walmart (because a day without Walmart is like a day without punishment for sin), picked up a daughter from dance, ate supper and tried to write a column while everyone else in the family was focused relaxing - so no, I didn’t get my column done the first two days of the week!

Confession time - I need this series as much as anyone!  The truth is, unless we make time time for life, life will take over our schedules, our energy, and our priorities.  I don’t think this is how God wants us to live.

Can you imagine a person with more demands than Jesus?  He always had people who needed him - they needed healing, feeding, teaching, and saving.  Yet you will notice Jesus never - never! - hurries in the gospels.  Do you think this is one more reason we need to be like Jesus?

So make time for Time for Life.  And let me encourage you to be a little early for each service - we’re trying something new - some interactive questions to get the service started.

Time for life - It’s time to make time for it!

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