How will you use your time?

Ann Voskamp writes:

You have absolutely only one decision to make every day: how will you use your time?

If someone would just give you a number — say they told you that you had just 2 months left – you’d know how to live:

You’d go hike the Appalachian Trail with the kids, laugh louder than the waves with them at the ocean, sit with them under holy stillness of the Sequoia trees, take their hand and feel their skin again next to yours, and you’d look them in the eye and whisper to them of love and glory and eternal, forever things, things that time can never touch.

No one can tell you how much time you’ve got. But as long as you’ve got time, you can give this time all you’ve got.

Live everyday like you’re terminal. Because you are.
Live everyday like your soul’s eternal. Because it is.

In every thing give thanks:

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus

concerning you… 1 Thess 5:18.

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Never stop hoping

Ann Voskamp writes today about joy and hope:

Time can’t dictate dreams or hijack hope or determine destination.

Time may have hands on the clock but it’s arms are too weak to rob anybody of hope, steal anybody’s prayers, destroy anybody’s joy.

And So what if time’s got hands on a clock — it’s God who has His Hands on the universe. Every little thing is going to be okay because God is working good through every little thing.

All that’s happening is just happening to make miracles. There are miracles always unfolding under the impossibles.

“Joys are always on their way to us,” writes Amy Carmichael. “They are always traveling to us through the darkness of the night. There is never a night when they are not coming.”

Because there is never a night where joys are not coming to us, there is never a road that can’t arrive at Hope. Circumstances can go ahead and run out of time — but the courageous refuse to run out of hope.

We can always hope because there is always joy traveling to us down the unexpected roads.

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