Our Time is Limited
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley and the Scripture is Psalm 90:12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Branny Ware is an Australian nurse, and she spends most of her time in Hospice with people that are in their last days of their life. She asked these patients of hers if they had any regrets. She began to hear a pattern, so she wrote them down. The second most common regret is that "I had worked too hard." Every single man at the end of his life said this. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but many of them were from an older generation and had not been bread winners. This means that if we don't learn to number our days that we will misspend our time and life and we will have a regrettable and avoidable regret. When you think that you have all the time in the world and then you suddenly realize that you don't have all of the time in the world, you can't go back. These are men and women that are numbering their days because they cannot avoid any longer that their days are numbered.
So what are you going to do with this wisdom you now have that comes with living as if your days are numbered? What are you going to do with that when you look at your current schedule, pace and limits?
"But Andy, if I don't do as much as I can I will never make it."
What is "it"? You better make sure that you have chosen the right "it" because you could spend your whole life trying to make "it" and get to the end and realize that it was the wrong "it".
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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