From the time the alarm clock goes off, things are moving at full speed. You move through the critical tasks as you do each morning. The door opens and closes as most of you leave the house one-by-one, to go to where you each need to be.
You get to work and there are already six voice mails on your phone, and 30 emails in your inbox. Co-workers want to chat about this and that, others need to talk to you about important things. A very normal day.
Deadlines
Bills
Responsibilities
Money
Emails
Problems
Ideas
Callings
Conflicts
Successes
Failures
Relationships
Phone calls
Laughs
Interviews
Salesmen
Appointments
Paperwork
The items on the list all blur into each other as the day moves on. Secure in their ordinariness.
In the flow of the day you pick up the phone to take a call. After a few minutes, you hang up.
Normality flees. The ever-growing list is instantly gone – vanished – replaced by two ignored words.
Family
Faith
The rest in incidental, insignificant. It leaves your field of vision. ALL of it can wait.
Family
Faith
Those two simple words now own your focus. You try, for a while, to keep getting things done, but it becomes obvious. No, you will not make that deadline. You will not return that call – maybe tomorrow. Right now, you want to go home. You need to be home. Not that there are any new answers there, but what is there, is what you need. Right now.
Family
Faith
The time is now spent on your knees, or wrapped in the arms of those you love.
It is right, now. The rest is irrelevant.
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Praying for you and yours, MMM!
I’ll remember you in my prayers this very minute.
((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))
Nothing like a cyber hug from a total stranger to help with a crisis . . . but your words touched me DEEP in my heart, and I have lived them too often in the past few decades not to understand what prompted them . . . You and yours are in my prayers, MMM . . .
Thanks for the reminder of what’s truly important in our lives. Praying for you and your family…
Powerful and wise words. You and yours are in my prayers.
I hope everything is ok!
I guess I will say a pray for all the Middle aged Mormon Men out there, you just got me praying for tonz of people now
Wow – Powerful… what else matters?
At the end of their lives, those are the two things people wish they’d spent more time on. How do we keep that focus in the midst of everything else?
“The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.” ~The Sunscreen Song
I just found your blog, and I absolutely love it. I hope everything is well at home 🙂
**hugs** I hope everything is ok!
That was a powerful post. I hope all is well with your family.
I’m sorry for your loss.
At least that’s what I’m reading into it because I have been there.
Man, did I ever need that slice o’wisdom this morning. Thanks, brother.