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Managing time

It's Spring Break here at UM, which means all the students are out-of-town.

It was a little strange at first to have all my evenings free, but I'm really thankful for this time that I've been able to use to reconnect with friends--catching up with Pubs co-servants on Monday, Jeanie Beanie on Tuesday, and JKwon today. This break will be filled with rekindling relationships that had to be pushed aside in the midst of competing priorities--love it!

I think part of the strangeness had to do with the fact that this year's spring break is relatively mellow compared to year's past. A year ago I was in Indonesia getting exposed through a medical missions trip, and the year before I was in Miami taking a short hiatus from my first run at working adult life. In previous years I've always seized opportunities to get out of Michigan, but this year I'm just glad to be here.

Spring Break 2012 in Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Time is such a gift from God, but I don't think I saw the value of stewarding it well until I started working and didn't have much of it. I love being a working adult, but one of the things I miss most about being a student is how much more time I had.

"When you're a student, you have time but not a lot of money. When you're working, you have money but not a lot of time."

Praying that all of us may grow to be better stewards of our time, so we can live to love more and more.

Some great options to grow in love: Alternative Spring Break (video) & LeaderShape

More to come about LeaderShape in a later post--

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