Time budget. 24 hours a day. What do I do with it?
Time management is more crucial than ever.
Things are going full swing now. Tutorials will be starting next week and so does the PASS group. Discovering Jesus will be on this coming Thursday. Assignments are already due!
During leadership training Val gave a talk about the stewardship of time. I like to think that I can use my time wisely, but I still have a long way to go. There are so many things that I want to do, things that are important to me, but there are always urgent things that I need to attend to. There are assignments, classes, things-that-pop-up-unannounced, and ICF-related things. Most times I wish I'm like a super-machine being where I can work and do the things that I want to without having a breakdown. I've been surviving on 6-7 hours of sleep for the past couple of days, and I'm slowly starting to feel the strain. I can't wait for Saturday because I can wake up AFTER 7:30am.
The ironic thing is it's not even my time. It's God's time. God created the concept of time, gave us 24 hours a day, and told us to be good stewards of it. It's a hard concept to grapple with, as time is something so intangible and yet real, and we never think of it as belonging to God. 24 hours in a day. 365 days in a year. The human lifespan is an average of 70 years. Some live longer, but on average, that's all we have.
But there's still so much I want to do. So much to experience. So many things to see!
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
There are urgent things. And there are important things.
Assignments (like the one I'm suppose to hand up soon) is urgent. Prayer is not urgent, but important. Well, I guess assignments are important as well, but grades come and go. Which leads me to a point: how we use our time shows what our priorities are. As a student, the bulk of my time is spend on uni-related things. And because of that, I used to think of time as chunks. There's study time, ICF time, God time, music time, doing-absolutely-nothing time (I should have more of that). I got it all wrong though. To think of time as chunks only shows the segregation, when every single area of my life should be one and integrated with Christ. God time, be it in prayer or reading the Bible is important, but I'm learning to have God in my mind constantly, to be prayerful, rather than to set aside a time for Him, and then forget about Him for the rest of the day.
And I should set aside time for music. There's a fantastic-looking, great-sounding piano here in Everton.(but fitted in a tiny room, making the sound louder than usual).
And maybe I should get a guitar.
And find the time in the midst of turbulence.
