Posts tagged ‘time’
What is Wasted?
How do you waste the most time every day?
Time is not wasted
Not if you live purposely
What is your purpose?

Today I’m working
Preparing for our dinner
Ready to feed all

No, it won’t be that
Rack of lamb’s too expensive!
Come for spaghetti

It’s a simple dish
Nutritious and tasty, too
No one leaves hungry

Don’t consider time wasted
Resting is important, too
Blogging’s not wasted

Scrabble’s not wasted
Games keep my brain from dying
So do chats with Bob

Tell me, what is waste?
Your garbage is my treasure
Come waste time with us!

No bull! Time’s wasting
If you live without purpose
Who’d want to do that?

How do you waste time?
Tell me in comments below
Love ❤️ from me, JanBeek
It’s Tomorrow!
I said yesterday,
“See ya tomorrow.”
But today is tomorrow
And it’s almost gone!

Today
Is Tomorrow
It’s February First
How’d your day go?
Swish!!

Today
Buzzed by
Snowplows were working
Week’s mail was overwhelming
Whew!!
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you,
do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink;
or about your body,
what you will wear.
Is not life more than food,
and the body more than clothes?
Today
Is gone
Tomorrow is coming
Plan for the best
Relax



See you tomorrow…
For sure!
What will you be doing?
Lots of Love,
JanBeek
Embrace the Present
Is your memory slipping? Mine is. The bad news is, my sweetheart’s memory is slipping down the same slope as mine. That’s not good news. For 59 years, we’ve covered for one another. Now we need someone else with a blanket and a diary… the blanket to cover our faux pas – and a diary to go back and retrieve the lost information!
I told you about the blue suitcase and our dual denial, right? http://www.janbeek.blog/embrace-laughter
Do you recall … neither of us remembering the actual color, size, and details of our luggage? Did you laugh with us? Well now, it is a situation where BOTH of us forgot about receiving something a year ago… denying it, causing someone else a lot of frustration, and needing a huge dose of forgiveness for the trouble we caused.
Ah, the mind is a sad thing to lose!!

Now is what we have
Tomorrow isn’t here yet
Sift through sands of time
Yesterday is past
Remembering helps us learn
Embrace the Present

and go back to retrieve what we want to remember!
Check out the expansion of that idea of living in the moment at this previous blog: http://janbeek.blog/2020/11/16/one-day-at-a-time
Haibun (俳文, literally, haikai writings) is a prosimetric literary form originating in Japan, combining prose and haiku. The range of haibun is broad and frequently includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem,[1] short story and travel journal.
In the Haibun above, I addressed the short story and the diary idea in my prose – and then added a two-part Haiku to the story. Thanks for the inspiration from Dwight Roth who often contributes Haibun to d’versepoetry.com … and does it so well. Check out today’s post from Roth Poetry:
Being Alive
I’m glad you shared today with me.
Thanks for visiting JanBeek
See ya tomorrow (God willing).
Embrace the Present
Embrace Borrowed Time
Another Massacre
Ten people were killed, including a veteran police officer, during a mass shooting Monday inside a grocery store in Boulder, Colo.
Another Senseless Loss of Lives
Another Sick Man with a Gun
Police officer among dead in Boulder, Colorado supermarket shooting
I could have been in that supermarket, in line to get my vaccine. You could have, too.
Many of us live as though there is no tomorrow. We simply have no concept of a world without us and yet each second the clock ticks away is one less second off our lives and as David said, “It is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
WE ARE LIVING ON BORROWED TIME
Psalms 90:10
The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span[a] is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
James 4:13-14
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
The average life span (world-wide) is less than 70 years but should we live beyond 70 years those extra years are seldom years of joy and happiness. Too many of our elderly in the USA are in nursing homes, separated from family, suffering from illness and loneliness.
If you are like Bob & me: in your 80s and relatively healthy, living independently in your home, count your blessings, praise God, and take no breath for granted!
Our whole existence is a gift from God. From the day of our birth until the day of our death we are on borrowed time.
What is the Meaning of Life?
One of the great questions of all time is, What is the meaning of life?
The Bible is filled with answers to that important question.
Eccl. 12:13
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
Mark 12:30
“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.”
I am blessed to use my time to spread love, joy, peace, faith and unity. That is my blog’s purpose. In my retirement – in my borrowed time, I share my love with you and I gratefully worship my Creator, calling out God’s name. Sharing the name of Jesus and living with the Holy Spirit as my guide. I live with an attitude of gratitude and a response of generosity, forgiveness, obedience, and integrity. I know each day is a gift. Each breath could be my last.
WE NEED TO BE USING OUR TIME WISELY
Jesus said, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
Jn. 6:28-29
“28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
As Christians we are not to manage our time the same way the world manages theirs. We must make sure that we seek God in everything that we do. We are to organize our time and plan wisely for the future. There are time management apps that we can download on our phones that we should all take advantage of. If you’re old school a simple notepad or calendar will help.
We are to take care of the most important tasks first. We should pray for God to remove procrastination and idleness from our lives. We should seek to do God’s will daily.
GOOGLE Rick Warren’s 25 Important Bible verses… pray about each one.
EXAMPLES OF WASTING TIME
The Prodigal Son as described in Lk. 15:11-13 wasted his wealth, his strength, his youth and his energy on riotous living but mostly he wasted his time.
Samson wasted his strength and testimony with a woman who was of the enemies of God.
The rich farmer in Lk. 12:16-19 was preoccupied with the wealth of this world and gave no thought to the world to come.
Continually meditate on Scripture and allow the Lord to direct your life. Everything in this life will burn. Don’t put your focus on the world.
A woman who had been living a very high-pressured life moved with her family from the city to the country. The family had resolved to reduce the stresses and tensions that they had been under by entering into a gentler, easier life-style. A neighbor called on the mother one day and noticed something that had been pinned on the family bulletin board. She asked about it and the mother said, “Oh, that’s a poem that represents what our moving here was all about. The poem starts out, “Lord slow me down..” But I haven’t had time to read the rest of it.”
Before Tonight’s Sunset:
- Thank God for another day on this earth
- Pray for souls of the people whose lives were senselessly lost in yesterday’s massacre – for the families of the victims* – and for that sick man and his family
- Pray for an end to hate
- Pray for peace in our world
- Reach out to someone and express your love and appreciation for him/her
- Determine what you can do tomorrow to make this a better world – right where you are
Thanks for visiting JanBeek
God Bless You!
See ya tomorrow (God willing)
* Here is one of the victims – a father of seven children,
the youngest of whom is seven years old.
Dear Lord,
please put an end
to this senseless hate
and needless killings.
Help us just love one another!!
Amen
Embrace Single Timeless Moment

From Psalm 90:1-2: “Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
Single Timeless Moment — Big Sky Buckeye
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Life’s amazing blessings
God’s Book of Life
unfolds Single timeless moment
Richer than any gold […]
This blog is so beautifully written. I just HAVE to share it with you! Thank you, {{{Richard}}} for your shared talent, your positivity, your heart. Friends, treat yourself… click on the link to Big Sky Buckeye above. You’ll love it. I promise.
Never Go Back!
No, I don’t want to go back!
I don’t want to revisit the old normal.
Surely as we move from 2020
to a new year, we’ll create a better normal.
This is my prayer this Christmas:
Lord, help us learn what You
have in mind for us to learn
from this rare year we’ve just survived.

Letter from a Wordsmith
With his permission, I am sharing with you the first part of a Christmas letter I received this week from my former pastor, Rev. Brent Mitchell. He is a master wordsmith! He said what’s in my heart so much better than I could have said it.
“Mark it how you will,
2020 was a year not lost,
but forever to be remembered
for both its absences
and its unexpected gifts.
By the middle of March,
it became apparent that
what we thought as normalcy
had left its predictable confines
for parts unknown,
leaving no forwarding address.
Masked and gloved,
we were left to fend for ourselves
absent even the comfort
of shaking hands
or intimate conversations,
the communion around tables,
camaraderie of birthdays celebrated,
the sacred closeness of hospital visits.
Absent of the humanizing connectivity,
of those familiar and holy intersections,
we were left to laugh alone,
to cry alone,
and hope in seclusion.
It cost us treasures we never knew
were so valuable
and time that cannot be recalled.

“But admit it:
There were unexpected gifts.
There were letters we finally wrote,
the books we never touched until now,
the prolonged stillness that allowed us to think again,
and listen to what our hearts were saying.
We talked to God
because the hours got quiet enough
to hear His still small voice.
It happened because we watched enough TV
to realize we had watched TV enough,
and golden silence gave us gifts
that weren’t insipid.
“I think, in short, that if we were paying attention,
not only did we get older,
but almost certainly wiser
because even a painful awareness
of what lurks in our hearts and minds
is worth more than gold.
The gift was rediscovering
at a visceral level
that we really are never alone;
nor in the absence of everyone,
are we left unloved.
“My prayer is that when this is over,
The Mitchell Musings
and it will one day be over,
we won’t forget the things we learned
the hard way this year:
that God willing,
we’ll never go back
to the tired normalcy of endless distractions,
of busyness as usual,
and the noise that never ends.”
December 2020
Thanks for visiting JanBeek.
I leave with you my hopes and wishes
for a most Blessed Christmas.
Smile!

Let’s see a warm smile –
It will warm your heart and mine.
It reflects kindness.
Kindness is in you.
This is SO worth repeating –
Let your kindness out!

Like the morning sun,
Kindness can hide behind clouds.
The Son overcomes!

Look for openings
Where God’s Light can shine through you.
Kindness is SON RISE!
Happy SONday!
SMILE!!
I remembered SPRING UP
and turned my clocks ahead an hour.
Did you?

See ya later.