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Mark 8:36
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forget
his soul?
As
Christians we certainly have a moral obligation to use well the gift of life, a
gift that has been almost doubled in the last 100 years.
A century ago, the average working man spent 70 hours a week on the job
and lived only 40 years. Now he averages
40, or a few more, hours a week and lives well past 70. That’s 1500, more or less, free hours a year
for a total of some 33,000 additional free hours in a lifetime. That’s a lot of boredom, or excitement, or
something in between as each of us decides what to do with all this added
abundance.
Leisure
time? Leisure time is for swapping
stories around a campfire, for holding the hand of one we love, for children
and parents getting to know each other better.
It is the season for listening, for giving a sympathetic ear to a
stranger or a friend. Leisure is the
season for giving. It feeds time with a
smile because we have not wasted the muscles of opportunity.
Leisure is the time for forgiveness. Forgiveness isn’t easy and when we are weary
it is even more difficult for then we are more easily angered, less likely to
even try to understand. Leisure gives us
the chance to bounce back emotionally, physically, spiritually.
Leisure is a time for getting to know
yourself. Ask me who in my life has
given me the most trouble and I must admit, “Me, when I let myself get too
tired and out of sorts.”
If when leisure comes you find you cannot relax because you’re
too busy…then you are right, you are too busy.
A president of a large New York City firm leaves his office at odd hours
during the day and walks through nearby Central Park for awhile.
He explains, “I’m running my
firm. It’s not running me.” Another successful executive, weary with some
of his colleagues who did nothing but complain how tired they were, put it well
when he said, “I feel like shouting at them, ‘You dummies. You mean to tell me you can take
responsibility for millions of dollars of business and yet you can not control
you own schedule enough to find any time for a little fun?’ ”
William Muldoon,
the famous athletic trainer of yesteryear, once said, “Men do not die of
disease. Rather they die of internal
combustion.”
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