" I can see clearly now......" You know that song don't you? Well, we can see clearly now through the once patch of woods that hid our home and view from highway 35 North. What we see are cars and trucks stopping for a traffic light...then sitting....then going again. Hour after hour it happens. Now I don't sit out there watching hour after hour, but every time I look that way I can see the same old thing.
The reverse is also true: We can now see our home well before we arrive. It used to be we had to be on seventh street to see 306. Now we can see it from Highway 35. I don't like that very much either. I can't do anything about seeing 35, but I can do something about seeing our home from 35 if I wish. I can turn a couple of blocks early, go down sixth, then come up to my house from behind it.
I'm not going to do that. I will keep coming and going just the way I have. We will make do with what has worked for us in the past.
We do that about many more events than how to get to and from where we live. Life has a way of putting new adjustments on us quite often. Some of them, (like sugar-salt free diets) aren't really much fun. We evaluate and decide if it is worth the hassle to readjust the foods we eat. We do it in our activities. Is it really worth expending our last little drop of energy to do this task?
That's when priorities come in to play. David of Biblical times was a multi-talented man. He was a leader, a warrior, a singer and song-writer. He was a tough but gentle man. He was, in fact, a man after God's own heart. Reflecting one day on all he could do he prioritized what was most important. It is found in Psalm 27:4 "One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple...."
In this hectic stop and go traffic world, what is most important to you?
