Busy Life

NO ROOM IN THE BANK

Is your life full and busy? If you're like me, maybe it is too busy.
Sometimes I fill my life so full doing things I think I should do, I don't
have time for the things I want to do, even if some of those things are
important. It seems that I have a thousand deadlines to meet, and too
often I can't find enough time to write, I skip my exercise routine, or I
neglect uninterrupted time spent solitude on meditation.

But it helps to remember a story about a young girl and her piggy bank. The little girl's father had just given her a silver dollar to put into her bank. She excitedly ran off to her room to “deposit” the coin. However, within a few minutes she returned and handed the silver coin back to her father.

“Daddy,” she said sadly, “Here's your dollar back. I can't get it into my bank.”

“Why not?” her concerned father asked.

“It's too full,” she said, obviously disappointed.

Her father accompanied her back to her room and sure enough her piggy bank was too full to accept even one more coin. It was stuffed with pennies.

Is your life ever like that bank? So full of errands, obligations and
activities of no lasting value that there simply is no room left for what
is truly important - the silver dollars?

Author Grenville Kleiser once said, “To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.”

Have you made room for a few large coins in your bank; for something you believe to be worthwhile? If not, you may have to take out a few pennies, but I suspect you will never know they are gone.

By Steve Goodier

Read and meditate on these scriptures:

Jeremiah 29:11-14 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD...”

Isaiah 26:3-4 “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.”

Philippians 4:8-9 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.

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