Back when I was in high school my youth pastor gave this message about the things that really matter in life. He was a man of illustrations whether stories or pictures or example or whatever. This has always stuck out to me. Its the important vs urgent graph. I realized today that my life is very un organized. Not in the I'm a messy and have papers stacked high in my room and in my car so no one can enter my room or ride in my car and I have no time to clean up sense. In the sense that I prioritize things really weird.
when I was working with the youth all of my time was compass and Church it was all important, but not necessary urgent (don't tell Joseph his lists of lists aren't urgent) and I lived very much in that box with the rare oh no impotent and urgent thing coming my way.
I think there are some things in my life that are urgent that haven't been getting done. Things like spending serious time with Jesus, not in quanity but in quality. I want to be able just to soak in the Lord's presence and dance around for hours on end. I think God wants me to do this. It just didn't ever fit into the box I was living in. I definitely didn't have time for things that weren't important or weren't urgent. I kinda like doing those things though. I did some today. today is my day off. I am house sitting for the dawsons. The dogs woke me up so I went and fed the horses at 8am. I have nothing to do till 6pm. Sure I have a 3 page essay to write and laundry and my car could probablly get cleaned out but those are in the important, not urgent box (my paper isn't due till the 29th) Today was going to be my not important not urgent day. I resolved a few weeks back to stop watching all television and movies, chantoll and cameron now own my DVD collection. However this morning I decided to watch x-men 3. I asked Jesus first. He said it was ok. I read a chapter of blue like jazz first though. It was very relaxing, not having to do anything. It feels weird though. I've always been the type of person that has a million things going on. Having a not important not urgent day is weird to me. I did give in and do my essay though and I will probablly clean my car as well. I feel like I'm just blabbing away, I'm not sure if the coolness of my chart really got across, but hey it was life changing for me at least.
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