Sunday, May 17, 2009
What is our time really worth?
I am asking tonight, this veritable question: What is our time worth. I mean, if you are spending time on a project... let's say the "project" is of long duration. You seem to be making headway at one time or another. Sometimes you wonder, but you at least are marching forward, for the most part. And then something happens to make you realize that all your work, be it words of encouragement to someone, ministry to someone, tangible project, ect, have been for naught. You realize that you have been blowing in the wind. Even as you thought you were making headway. Was that time wasted? Is there remnants of your work left in that project. Have there been differences made? Or was it all really for nothing. Even if the end result is not the expected result, is there some progress that can be claimed by the worker? Is the time we spend doing something only worth the effort if we get possitive results?
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Do you think that Thomas Edison would have considered his failures with the light bulb wasted time? Or learning time?
I'm sure there have been times I've felt that an effort I made was wasted, but it's possible to look on anything as a learning experience. Sometimes the lesson might be "don't try doing that again."
Margaret, how encouraging that response is to me. You are so right. I guess when you are discouraged about something it is hard to look at it in any positive light. Thanks for sharing. You are so right.
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