“There is only today, with holes in our pockets, with time spilling out. We cannot keep it for tomorrow. We cannot mend our seams to hoard, save, carry. Ask a bird how to fly, and it might tell you to remove the weight from your wings.”
In most cases in our lives, we tend to get things back like borrowed possessions like clothes, a pencil to use on a Scantron test, a favor, money. The one thing we do not get back is time and how we spend it.
This really struck me when I began to reflect on the areas that I want to freely fly, explore, and discover. There is so much that weighs on our wings that we wear and carry with us at a moment to moment basis. It can be our fears, anger, bitterness, anxiety, busyness. We then fill our schedules to the brim where it is overflows, spills, and makes our life messy and stressed, and we do not take the time to release the weight off our wings. We do not even give ourselves the time of day to think about the life we really want to live. We default to just survive. Is the over-scheduling and busyness really worth it? Sometimes we justify ourselves to believe that it is actually saving us more time in the long run. Time spills from our pockets, and we cannot keep it for tomorrow.
We need to make time for what matters most. I am beginning to realize that I need to value myself more by making time for me to connect with God, the Love, the Divine. I find myself more than willing to sacrifice my time to have fun, grab a drink with friends, visit Disneyland. When do I make time for my heart, soul, mind, and body?
We strive to be a Martha and sacrifice being a Mary. I desire to be a free spirit who flies where she dreams and pleases. I want to be where God wants me to be.
It takes thinking ahead but being intentional in the now. Fighting for the good and necessary part of our day.
God will take care of the rest, all of the details.
Take time to get some weight off your wings.
And fly.