Using the Present

14th October 2006, Singapore - And so it goes...Time and tide waits for no man. It feels like a trillion years between now and when I last signed into Blogger. Time like the wind just passes us by. I was on the issue on Time Management on air yesterday and I suppose it was reflective on an inner desire within me to apportion my time better, not just so I can blog more frequently (a penchant of wordsmiths; though I hope you appreciate shorter time lapses between each entry where I record my thoughts). But more so, that I will never have to belt that oft' heard excuse, "Sorry, I don't have the time". Be it time to catch up for tea (the long-lost), time to offer help (the needy), time to clear up my room (the mother), time to serve Abba Father (thru ministry).

I confess to having a get-up-and-go spirit, restless and having to do something all the time, but ironically, that doesn't make me immune to idling and flushing away precious hours, minutes and seconds. The tricky bit is how one differentiates between idling and resting.

I've only just come up with my thoughts on TIME, stripping away each letter and voila! A home-made prayer along the lines of a rhyme:

The vault once opened, never to be closed, fleeting and flying, making hay or holes
Innocuate me Lord, less idleness and wanton waste
Make me the poorer of the 'present' that's prone to pass in haste,
Ever to give to others and self more value of 24-hour days.