Days of Our Lives, Part II

If you know me, then you know my godbabies are my heart...a 3 year old goddaughter and a 2 year old godson...and it seemed like just yesterday they were laying in cribs at Delta Regional as we welcomed them into the world...now they are driving us crazy on a daily basis, and I say that with love...the little girl explaining to me how the world works and the little boy climbing on me, wrestling me down, both calling my best friend's (their mom) and my name every 28 seconds...I think it's a conspiracy to wear us down...lol!!! But as much as they can drive us crazy, they cause our days to be filled with joy, laughter, and are rays of sunshine in our lives, true blessings...we wouldn't trade them for the world...and as I looked at them last night, growing up so fast and learning so much so quickly...I am reminded of another statement my Grandad used to make all the time (if you remember from part I, it was "Time has a way of changing things")...this other statement he frequently said was "Time waits for no man" and that sounds so simple but yet look at again, say it to yourself...no matter what children learn or don't learn, no matter what they do or don't do, no matter if you enjoy the moments or you don't enjoy the moments with them, whether it's tough times or great times, time will NOT stop!!! That's why we take time to enjoy the moments and the days with them!!! They will one day be adults...and it is the same way with our lives...time does not wait on us...the day does not stop because you decide you don't like what someone did to you yesterday, and you wake up with a bad attitude...the day goes on without you, whether you decide to participate or not...it goes on...If you haven't learned to maximize every moment, I urge you to do so...start TODAY...this is YOUR DAY...because HE has given it to you...this doesn't mean you have to spend it busy with work, or running here and there, or spend every moment talking (I need sooome help in that area, whew!). It even means that YOU CAN maximize your resting time, your vacation time, quiet moments with your loved ones...Remember the devil comes to do three things: Steal, Kill, and Destroy and  a lot of times it's not a direct attack, it's an indirect attack...if He can still a day at a time from you, then He can still years from you...and his strategy is to tell you if you lost yesterday, then you might as well give up on today....THAT'S A LIEEEEEEEEE!! You could have had the wrong mindset and behavior for 30 years, but if you wake up ONE day and choose to change ONE thing for the better, that's the beginning! What a difference a day makes!!!!  And today I present you with even better news: You cannot get time back you have lost, but you can redeem the time!!! What do I mean by that? You remember when you didn't finish pursuing your education, you remember when you didn't start your business, you remember when you didn't lose that weight, you remember when you didn't take that much needed vacation, you remember when you didn't obey God...unh huh...yeah, you remember, because I clearly remember what I didn't do just yesterday... think about it...it will come to you...seek God and His will, and guess what? All that time you wasted, I believe He will let you make it up if you're obedient...and God's make up session goes much faster than man's...I'm a living witness...because I don't know about y'all but I can MESS UP some stuff...I have messed up "a many day" got some areas in my life now that I'm having to stand back and evaluate the mess (that's another blog) but I do know some of my wasted time is being redeemed even as I type this... remember Ephesians 5:15-16 from Part I of this series...the King James Version says "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." And v. 17 says "Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is." Now only God can give us some days, we mess them up, didn't do what we were supposed to do with them, and then He gives us more time to do what we didn't do and speeds up  the process so we'll have time to reap the benefits, enjoy the results, only thing He asks us to is be obedient and exercise the wisdom He gives!!!  Now if you don't get excited about that...I ought to slap YOU through this screen! *SSSSLLLLAAAAAPPPP* That's for the folks that still don't get it.......Let me put like this I AM GLAD THAT GOD ISN'T A GOD OF A SECOND CHANCE, BUT A GOD OF ANOTHER CHANCE" ....I passed my second chance thousands of chances ago!!! He gives you another day everyday for a reason!!!  Psalms 90:12 says "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom" ... Tell God to show you how to use each day wisely so that you will have the life He wants you to have, a life of abundance...so you know that degree you didn't get it, you can get it, you know that right relationship you don't have, you can have it; you know that soulmate that's intended for you, you can have him or her; that business you didn't start, you can start it; those pounds you didn't lose, you can lose them; that bad attitude you can't seem to get rid of, you can get rid of it; that life He promised you that you don't have, He will give it you!!! These are YOUR DAYS, these are MY DAYS, these are the DAYS OF OUR LIVES....I'm determined to maximize the moment, you should try it!!!!!!!!!!!  Have a great DAY!!!!!!