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E V O T I O N A L

The text came in while I was already in the car.

Keys in the ignition, jacket on, that specific state of being fully committed to leaving...and then those three dots on the screen, and then the words. Cancelled. Something came up. We will reschedule.

I sat there in the driveway for a second with the engine running.

Because I had just gotten ninety minutes back. Handed to me. I did not earn them, did not ask for them, did not do one single thing to deserve them. They just landed in my lap on a Tuesday.

I remember thinking I should do something worthwhile with that.

Then by evening I could not have told you where any of it went. It dissolved into the day the way time always does, and the honest truth is that nothing about that day looked different than the one before it.

That bothered me more than it probably should have.

Because I have said it. You have probably said it too. When things slow down, I will pray more. When I have a little more time, I will call my mom. When this season lets up, I will get back in my Bible, I will rest, I will finally deal with that thing I keep putting off.

And then God quietly hands over ninety free minutes and I spend them exactly the way I spend everything else.

Which means the thing I keep telling myself is not actually true. It was never a time problem.

I think most of us have built an entire belief system around a shortage that is not really the shortage. We are convinced the obstacle is the clock, because that is a comfortable thing to blame. The clock is not our fault. The clock is just the way life is right now. And as long as the clock is the villain, we never have to look at the harder question sitting underneath it.

What do I actually make room for?

Because we all make room for something. Nobody is too busy for everything. We are busy and we still find the scroll. We find the show. We find whatever is easy and asks nothing of us. Those things do not require extra hours. They slide into the cracks of a full day because somewhere along the way they became automatic.

The things that actually matter never become automatic. They have to be chosen, usually at an inconvenient moment, usually when something easier is sitting right there.

Psalm 90:12 says “Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.”

That is a strange prayer when you sit with it. Teach us to realize. As in, we do not naturally. We walk around assuming there will be more of this than there is, and the assumption makes us careless with it. The psalm is asking God for a correction we cannot produce on our own.

And notice what realizing the brevity produces. Not panic. Not a frantic scramble to optimize every minute. Wisdom. A clearer sense of what is worth the hours you have.

So I am not going to tell you to be more productive with the next unexpected hour that falls into your lap.

What I would ask instead is smaller and harder.

Look honestly at this past week and notice what got your time. Not what you intended. What actually got it. Because that is a far more accurate picture of your priorities than anything you would write down if somebody asked.

Then pick one thing, just one, that has been living in your “when I have more time” pile, and move it into this week. Not when things slow down. They are not going to slow down. Put it in the week you actually have.

Those ninety minutes showed up whether I noticed them or not. So does every other hour.

He is not asking for all of them. Just for you to stop waiting on a season that is not coming.

Much love and blessings,

Ramzi

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The people in your house are not waiting on a less busy version of you. Fifteen real minutes beats an hour you keep promising.

Relationships

The friend you have been meaning to call for months is not a scheduling issue at this point. Make the call this week.

Mental Health

If every free minute goes to numbing out, that is worth noticing gently rather than harshly. Exhaustion does that. See the pattern without beating yourself up over it.

Physical Health

You will find time for everything except the appointment, the walk, the sleep. Those are the ones that keep getting bumped. Put one back on the calendar.

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“I will deal with it when things settle” costs real money over time. Give one hour to the thing you have been avoiding.

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It was never a time problem. It was a room problem. Make some.

Lord, thank You for the time You keep giving me, including the hours I almost do not notice. Forgive me for blaming the clock for things that were really about what I choose. Teach me to see how short this is, not so I panic, but so I spend it on what actually matters. Help me stop waiting on a season that is not coming. Amen.