Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

Today's podcast is sponsored by a wonderful company, Creation to Revelation. This group of Christians believe it is extremely important that we teach the Word of God to our kids.

They have original graphic illustrations from the beginning of the Bible to the end,

featuring the beautiful and consistent presence of Jesus throughout.

You can explore all of that at creation to revelation.com.

I am so thankful you're here, so let's get started. Hey, welcome back. I have an illustration to share with you

today that I've been excited about all week. I'm calling it the jar of rocks. I'm not sure if that's

the official name, and it is not original with me, but it's a jar that you put rocks in, so I felt

pretty safe with that approach. I think this visual will really be helpful for you this week.

Ultimately, it is designed to help you prioritize your schedule, manage your time better,

and make sure that the things that matter most to you in this life are getting the proper amount of attention.

I will confess this to you.

It's a bit ironic that an episode designed to help with time management is being recorded

on a Sunday night at 8 p.m. in an empty church building by a guy who's still wearing his gear that he just preached in,

the night before the episode is released. It sounds like I'm not the guy to be delivering this

message. Although, once you hear me out a little bit on this visual and its meaning, and I explain

why I've waited so long this week to record.

Maybe it does make some sense.

We'll see how that goes.

So here's the plan today.

It's very simple.

I'll take the next few minutes, and I'll share with you this illustration.

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