Second Cup: Be generous with time

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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People are a good use of time

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0:00.0	Back in 96,
0:03.0	in 96, Atlanta was booming with excitement
0:05.0	around hosting the Centennial Olympic Games.
0:08.0	And then, a deranged zealot, willing to kill for a cause,
0:12.0	lit a fuse that would change my life and so many others,
0:15.8	forever, rippling out for generations.
0:21.3	Listen to Flashpoint on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:26.0	podcast.
0:27.0	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:37.0	Good morning.
0:40.0	This is Laura.
0:42.0	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. This is Laura.
0:45.0	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:52.0	Today's tip is to consider being generous with your time.
0:53.2	While boundaries are wise, people are generally a good use of time.
0:58.8	So be generous with time when you can. There is a famous passage from First Corinthians that has read at
1:07.3	weddings about love. You probably remember how this starts from the last
1:12.2	wedding you went to, with the statement that
1:14.9	Love is patient. I was pondering recently what it means for love to be patient. And I realized that fundamentally, patience means being
1:27.2	generous with time. When love is patient, it means we aren't rushing off to the next thing.
1:35.0	We are giving people enough time to be heard and seen.
1:40.0	This plays out in all sorts of ways. It can mean chatting with a teenager, even
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