TIME REDEMPTION

7/18/12

I am a clock watcher---always have been.I used to even wear a watch to bed if there wasn't a clock nearby. But God.....has been teaching me to "watch" Him more and my timepiece less. Yesterday, that happened. Before my "biggie" 6 month doctor's 11:15 a.m.appointment, I had already run errands in Germantown (2), made a bank stop, picked up tomatoes (For me, jet star tomatoes from Middleton vendor at Agri-center put those Ripley "maters"to shame---more acidic, which is what I prefer.) and "peas to put up" at the market, and voted. After said appointment, which Dr. S. deemed a "good report", I met 3 friends at Paradise Cafe for a yummy lunch and mission trip discussion.
Following that I went to the home of a dear friend. Geary Irwin, who has been a special friend since the 60s and is almost 89, can run circles around me. It was a bittersweet time. Geary is moving to Jacksonville, FL to be nearer to her daughter and the movers were pulling out as I arrived. The sweet part was that Anne Hooker and I both had just dropped in to see her off because in an earlier conversation, she let us know that some folks would be there to clean up and we could just visit. Well, the cleaners never came and Anne, who lives around the corner, went & got her vacuum and we had the privilege to help her grandaughter with the "tidying up" before the new owners came the next day. How special was that---Geary said, "Y'all were God-sent." How those words energized me.
There was even energy left over to make a few more stops on the way home and leftovers were easy to pull out for supper. All of this to say, that earlier in the day, as I was ready to dart out the door with a  l-o-n-g list of "to do items", I had a real God nudge. I took time (which I didn't think I could spare) and had time with Him, not looking at my watch even once.
Hosea 10:12 reminds us that it's time to seek the Lord.

Sow with a view to righteousness, Reap in accordance with kindness; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord

Maybe I'm on the road to recovery. Maybe I'm not as time compulsive as I once was. Maybe....once again, God clearly showed me that He can redeem the time. Time redemption that even left me energized at the end of a long day.