Another Wasted Day In A Wasted Life

My Monday added up to just another wasted day in a wasted life.

Even before Ginny left for work I’d written up my 2do2da list of nine things I wanted to accomplish during the day.

I assigned a priority to each task on the list. This resulted in my identifying the A-Number-One Most Important thing for me to do.

But …

Here were eight priority B, C, and D items on the list.

What to do? What to do?

The easy things won hand down. I frittered away a day of life doing things of hardly any importance while leaving the most important of all untouched.

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”.

I think that’s a quote from a cowboy movie that’s stuck in my mind. It’s not the way I do things, but it’s stuck in my mind.

In my spiritual life I’m just as bad. I fritter away life acting on vague semi-religious, semi-moral or social things — convenient do-goodism and feel-goodism — and thus avoid contact with the Almighty.

Yes, Christ ranks as prominent in my life (I use Him as an excuse for a lot of things) but He is seldom preeminent. I dabble at devotion. The word Lord does have a meaning, and my Lord is the phrase I use in referring to Him, but all too often the term my sidekick might be more accurate.

When I’m in my right mind, I reflect on Psalm 27:4 which says, “One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord…”

What is more important than that?

One thing! One thing. One A-Number One thing. I should remember what that is.

O well. Tomorrow is also a day.