Do you ever feel like you've lost your marbles? My grandmother would say, "I've lost my marbles" when she did something crazy like put her eyeglasses in the refrigerator. I may be a lot like her. Hi, I'm Claudia Mitchell with a minute message from Sherwood Oaks Christian Church.
My grandkids love Saturdays with their dad so much they call it Dadurday. To remind himself not to waste a day, he has a big jar of marbles on his desk. Every week he throws one marble away to remind himself another week is gone.
If I live to be 85, I should have about 1,500 Saturdays left. Each week, as I take another marble out of my own jar, I ask myself, "did I use my time well last week?" We all have 86,400 seconds a day. We will spend two years on the phone, six months at stoplights, and when I added up the number of hours experts say we should exercise and sleep, it came to 36 hours a day.
Our days our numbered. Don't waste one second of this precious day. The psalmist David wrote, "Lord, teach us to number our days." Today is precious. Don't lose your marbles.