You only get 24

How do you slow down? Maybe the better question is do you slow down? Time, like many things, is limited. The way we spend it says what our priorities are. Sometimes our time is demanded by things outside our control, but most of the time that is just an excuse we make. We choose our schedules. We choose to say yes or no to the things that require our time. Sometimes we over commit. We think we can do it all. Maybe you can, for a season, but probably not long term. Sometimes we spread ourselves so thin so that we don't have to stop and think. Hard to reflect on things if you are moving at 100 mph all of the time. Sometimes we stay busy so that no one really knows us. We offer five minutes to people. We can appear to have it all together for five minutes. If we invest hours into someone else, then those cracks might start to show. We don't want to stop and examine those weaknesses and we surely don't want to expose them to someone else. We run full speed ahead. We are "on" all of the time. We don't ever fully invest in the relationship. We don't stop to hear God. We don't make the time to invest in others. We simply keep running at full speed until we collapse. We multi-task, which really means we don't fully invest in anything. We think "I am doing this so I will just combine it with this and cover both of them". Really though you haven't given yourself to either. Having a conversation while texting and taking that third phone call really doesn't count as time invested in someone else. Oh, you spent time in the same area, but have you really invested in them? Have you told someone they are priority and then shown it by investing some of your 24 hours in them? How are you going to spend your 24 hours today? It is limited and valuable. Use it wisely on the things that matter.