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images (3).jpgDO YOU SUSPECT that your daughter might be more devoted to Facebook than physics, or have you been searching so avidly online that you suddenly realize you haven’t looked up from your screen in hours…?
A few handy websites can help you keep your eye on the clock. Productivity Meter, free downloadable software, is available at fruitfultime.com. You tag your favorite websites “productive” or “unproductive,” and the program registers and graphs your time. Download the program data onto a portable flash drive so you can track your usage on any computer.
For about $10 a month, Slife Web (slifelabs.com) sits in the background of your screen, quietly watches your online activities. You can restrict your time in particular areas such as news, e-mail, and games. The family pan on rescuetime.com tracks how each member of your clan spends time online, and it plots the data by hour, day, and week. The site, which also offers individual plans, even allows you to block distracting websites from your loved ones–and yourself. Reader’s Digest,”Gadget Mania,” March 2011, 97
KneEmail: 22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Galatians 5.22-24
Bible reading for 02.23.11: Mark 4.21-41; Numbers 7 – 8
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Time

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I’VE BEEN NICE…
I want a good present.
Have you heard anyone say this lately? Everyone’s focus is on buying and getting presents. With all of the hurried shopping going on, I wonder how many will learn the lesson of time. Children are so eager to receive their favorite gift. In a few weeks, they will want the newer models. It seems like 2010 began yesterday and now it is Christmastime.
As we celebrate the holidays, let’s be mindful of time. Along with the good gifts, it is wonderful to have a good present. The past is gone. The future comes at a quick pace. We cannot rewind or speed up life. Make memories and enjoy each day.
Modern technology allows us to accomplish so much in little time. On the other hand, technology can also slow down time. Have you ever replayed a decisive moment of a football game on television? We all have unique life experiences. Patience has not been my attribute. I am still growing and learning. As one day ends and another begins, time cannot be relived.
We may look back with regret, anger and resentment at all our dashed hopes, at all our “if onlys.” At times, we may consider the future bleak and want to rush past it. But we cannot alter time. Enjoy your present. What we have is God’s gift of today and freedom to choose how to live it.
Paul gave us an example when he wrote, “Forgetting what is behind … I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13, 14.
Take your time today as a gift from God. Choose to use your present wisely and be grateful for your gift. Worrying about the past or the future keeps us from taking joy in the present. This is the season of joy. You deserve a good present. Enjoy. Donna Avera at: http://savannahnow.com/effingham-now/2010-12-08/i-want-good-present
KneEmail: “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.” Philippians 3:13
Bible reading for 12.08.10: 3 John; Daniel 8 – 10
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Look

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Samaritan WHY ARE SO many of us like the priest and the Levite…?
Why do we look away from hurting people? We have many reasons. The hassle. The dirt. The risk. The cost. The commitment.
The Samaritan interrupted his schedule and emptied his moneybag. Because he was an outsiders, he ran the risk of the wounded man’s family seeking him out for vengeance when he took him to an inn. One scholar said this about the risk the Samaritan took: “An American cultural equivalent would be a Plains Indian in 1875 walking into Dodge City with a scalped cowboy on his horse, checking into a room over the local saloon, and staying the night to take care of him.”
We instinctively know that love leads to commitments, so we look away when we see a beggar. We might have to pay if we look too closely and care too deeply. Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.
Jesus is not just offering good advice. He tells this parable to disrupt our “safe” world so that we can begin to see people and stop looking through the narrow lens of “our group.” Unless we do that, we won’t be able to love.” Paul E. Miller, “Looking Shapes The Heart,” Love Walked Among Us,” 33-34
KneEmail: “But when he saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.” Matthew 9:36
Bible reading for 07.20.10: Acts 22; Psalm 26-28
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Game

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images (1).jpg ONE DAY, MY husband and I took up racquetball…
Knowing I needed the exercise, I also ventured into the little box that was the court. It seemed a trifle small for the two of us, but it was fun. Having played tennis years ago, in the days of my youth, I managed quite well. However, being thoroughly out of shape, I found myself running furiously in every direction for about twenty minutes and then suddenly collapsing in a whimpering heap in a corner of the court.
My experience reminded me of many Christians. Starting off with great enthusiasm, they leap frantically around, chasing the ball and running themselves into the ground, ending up beaten in a short span of time. This is not the way to play the game. Watch an expert racquetball player, and you see he paces himself well, knowing just where to put his feet. He even finishes a vigorous game with steps left over. The idea is to plod with God, rather than to race through space. Jill Briscoe, “The Other Side of Redemption,” Here Am I, Lord…Send Somebody Else!, 79-80
KneEmail: “But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31
Bible reading for 06.03.10: John 13:21-38; 2 Chronicles 19, 20
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Brief

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age.jpgCONSIDER A FEW excerpts from Tom Heymann’s book, “In An Average Lifetime…”
Mr. Heymann has analyzed several aspects of life and has calculated what an individual does in a typical lifetime. The average American individual:
Spends 3 years in business meetings
Spends 13 years watching television
Spends $89,281 on food
Consumes 109,354 pounds of food
Makes 1811 trips to McDonalds
Spends $6,881 in vending machines
Eats 35,138 cookies and 1,483 pounds of candy
Catches 304 colds
Is involved in 6 motor vehicle accidents
Is hospitalized 8 times (men) or 12 times (women)
Spends 24 years sleeping
With all of this activity, or lack thereof, it is important to remember that life is brief at best. Are we doing the really important things with the time we have been given?
KneEmail: “Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” James 4:14
Bible reading for 09.09.09: 2 Corinthians 2; Proverbs 6, 7
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Time

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clock.jpgEVERY MORNING GOD doles out a limited amount of time to every soul on the planet…
86,400 seconds, 1,440 minutes, or 24 hours–depending upon how you count time. We can do what we want with this daily allotment: spend it, use it, waste it, kill it, invest it, or just ignore it. Whatever we do it it, our time for that one day will be gone There is no way to save any of it.
KneEmail: “The day of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away.” Psalm 90:10
Bible reading for 08.26.09: Romans 8; Psalms 119:89-176
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Number

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images.jpgI READ OF an old Norwegian who had kept very careful notes of his life in a series of notebooks he kept on the shelf of his business…
On his eightieth birthday he went to the store and pulled the books from the shelf and began to compute his life. He was surprised to find that he had spent five of his eighty years waiting on customers. He had spent six months tying neckties, three months scolding children who had been running around the store, and eight days telling his dogs to lie down and be quiet.
THOUGHT: Some stuff is pressing (i.e., urgent); some stuff is consequential (i.e., important). We need to learn to distinguish between the two and then act accordingly.
KneEmail: “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90:12
Bible reading for 08.25.09: Romans 7:20-40; Psalm 119:1-88
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