A prayer to use our time wisely, written by Pastor Jack Graham, read by Leah Martin.

Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.

What is your life?

You're a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

James 414.

I have a good friend who was sitting at a red light one day

and he began to contemplate how much time we spend sitting at red lights in our lifetime.

The thought occurred to him that one of these days after sitting at so many red lights, he's going to die.

They'll put him in a box and drive his body down the street in a hearse,

running every red light along the way.

So he thought, how ironic, I'll have to die to run red lights.

I was thinking about that little fought not long ago and I started to thank God for the red lights that I hit in my daily life.

Sometimes they're literally red lights.

Other times they're people who stop me in the hallway

because they need to talk.

It's those red lights that tell me I still have breath in my

lungs and I still have a mission to live for God's purposes. It's easy to want to

push, push our way through life, checking boxes only to make more lists.

But what if we take more little blessing breaks in our lives and slow down a bit? Our lives would be much less stressful and our relationships so much deeper.

You're never wasting time when you're doing what God wants you to do.

Let's pray.

Dear Lord, when our life on Earth is done,

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