Lately it seems when I get up in the morning to start a new day that in a very short period of time I am laying back down because the day is over. I guess when you get older time goes faster.

It got me thinking about managing my time better. And it has been brought to my attention that if the Holy Spirit is a master of managing time. If the Holy Spirit is in control of my day and I am in the Will of God, then it seems I have longer, more productive, peaceful, loving attitude to everyone around me kind of day.

But if I am not in the Will of God and the Holy Spirit is not in control of my day, then my day seems very short, I get up late, I feel like I did nothing all day, I am mean, grouchy, kind of day. And I HATE those days. I feel like I am a bum and have nothing better to do with my life than lay around doing nothing. I feel like my priorities went out the window and I feel useless because I did nothing all day. I don’t want to push to getting things done, because I can do it another day when I don’t feel like a total lazy.

And that got me thinking about strength, stamina, pushing to accomplish goals, priorities and etc. Here is a short story to kinda show you what I am talking about.

On Monday I got on the treadmill for 25min. 10min. walking, 5min. running, and another 10mi. walking to cool down. As I was running there was point at about 3min. when I was about ready to quit, but I couldn't. I can't really explain what the feeling was, but I knew I couldn't stop. I physically wanted to soo bad, but mentally I couldn't tell my legs to get off. I just pushed myself I didn't think about the fatigue that was in my legs I just thought about something else. Which reminded me of

Anyway back to the story....I knew that I had to run the 5min. without stopping. I knew if I stopped that I would not get back on and finish.

Which made me think of Smallville. Clark is doing something, but him having his powers could be harmful, and he tells his dad that he is just going to quit. I think it is when he plays football?? Anyway Jonathan tells him, "Son, don’t start quitting now because it is a very hard habit to break." How true that is. Once you quit at something you are more than likely to quit at something else. Then things in your life start to never get accomplished, i.e. priorities.

So I ran my 5min. without stopping. It seemed like the longest 5min. ever.

As I was telling Mom this, she said to me, "You have so much stamina. I have never had that. If I had then I would have been able to accomplish so much when I was your age and now. You always push to do what you need to."

Now hearing that was great, but then I thought about the word, stamina. What does it really mean? I got out our Webster’s 1828 Dictionary and looked it up. Now the word and spelling is diff from now. It was spelled, "Stamen" But it said,

This brought me to the verse that says "where does my strength come from? It comes from the Lord." But I couldn’t find the reference and Mom wasn’t sure it was actually a verse. But I found this one

Stamina is strength. God gives me and is my strength, then God is my stamina. So when I use my stamina then I am using God to help me accomplish all my priorities.

It’s like God is my fuel to run this race, so He is pushing me to do the best I can.

Now I know that if I am in the Spirit I can accomplish my priorities even beyond my own strength, power, and mean.

So if I have the stamina to push myself to run 5min. then I had better use that same stamina to accomplish the priorities and responsibilities that God has given to me. And since God sets my priorities and He gives me time and strength to do it, then I know I can, and I must. I can only do it the way He wants me too if I am in His will though and it is very easy to get out of it.

When I get out of that will and am doing my own thing after awhile I always have to back to God’s Will for my life and I have to reorganize my priorities. I have to come back to the same place I was before and start over only to go about an inch and then start over because I fell off the path.

This is my new self assignment: Reorganize my priorities, accomplish them with the strength and stamina He gives so that I don’t have to keep wasting my time going back.

So I am going to start making up schedules for what I want my days to be and what I want to accomplish. And have God help figure out what He wants my days and priorities to be instead of what I want them to be.

I hope this encourages you to do the same if you feel like your days are "water through a sieve".

©AmandaDixon2006

Thank you for spending your precious time to read the ramblings of a 16-year-old Girl on her way to becoming a Woman of God. I can only hope to become as much a blessing as all the people I meet her are to me. THANK YOU!

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