thoughts on the news of the day: priorities

hmmm…..

            What comes first in your life?

            The word “prioritize” has popped up in my world several times lately.  A friend of mine was questioning her daughter’s priorities last night – then a devotional I read this morning talked about the same thing.  So maybe its time for me to think about what is important in my life and what should be important.

            Naturally, as a minister I should say that God should come first.  And of course, God should.  Spending time in prayer and meditation and bible reading should come first.  Trying to please God should come first.  I remember a visitor in our church once saying, “I get up every morning and ask myself, what would make God smile today – then I try to do it.”

            But what about after that?  Where are your priorities?  Where do you spend most of your time?  Its something to think about, isn’t it?  Is your time spent on cell phones? Are you spending too much time at the computer?  Do you simply spend too much time working and not enough time with your family?

            These are just a few examples of priorities, I could name many more, good and bad, but I’ll let you think about them in your own life.  Some kids in our church made me a picture for Christmas – it sits prominently on my bureau.  Colored brightly on a brown grocery sack is the word “JOY”.  The J stands for Jesus, the O stands for Others and the Y stands for Yourself.  Not bad priorities to live by.

            hmmm…..