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| Walnuts and Sand |
| 03.11.04 (8:56 am) [edit] |
If you trust the Lord,
you will never miss out on anything good.
[b]Psalm 34:10b (CEV)[/b]
[LINE]
Spanish test, science lab, honors band, basketball game, homework--[i][b]Aaaaarg![ /b][/i] As I look back on my day, I'm surprised that I remembered to breathe. I check the clock. [i]Is it midnight already?[/i] Then I remember the devotion I was supposed to read for youth group tomorrow. I groan. It's the third time I hav forgotten to read devotions this month.
As I like in bed, I remember that once, during the children's time at my church, a woman taught us how to always have time for God. She pulled out of her tote bag a jar, a bag of walnuts, and a bag of sand. "This jar is your daily life," she explained. "The walnuts are the times you spend with God, an the sand is all your other activities." Then she poured the sand into the jar and tried to add the walnuts. We could all see they wouldn't fit.
"If you try to do all of your other activities first and the squeeze in time for God, you run out of room. But," she said, dumping the sand back into the bag and pouring the walnuts into the jar, "if you spend time with God first, all your other activities will slid into place." As she poured the sand in, it slid into the spaces between the walnuts; and she was able to close the jar.
If we put God first in every day, all the rest will fall into place.
[b]Carol Caudill, 18[/b]
Charleston, West Virginia
[LINE]
[b]Try it:[/b]
For the next
week, begin and
end each day with
prayer. Be intentional
about putting God first
in everything you say
and do. See if you
find time for all
that is impor-
tant to you.
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