Time

Lately I have been confused and struggling with where to spend my time.  I have been asking people how they do it, work/own their own business and be a mom.  Talking with all my friends I was reminded of a sermon we had in Seattle at East Lake Church - which we love and miss!  Pastor Ryan was talking about how God doesn't make mistakes in his creation and that there are 24 hours in a day for a reason.  People always say there aren't enough hours in the day, but the truth is there is the perfect amount of hours, but we try to do too much.

People are always trying to balance their life...I was talking to one of my very wise friends and stumbled upon this great nugget of wisdom - don't worry about balancing your life - it's pretty much impossible - it's not about balancing it, it's about coming up with percentages that you are ok with.  Where do I want to spend my time, how much of it am I willing to give to certain things and take away from others.  This also makes me think of another one of my favorite quotes: Sometimes you have to say no go good things so that you can say YES to GREAT things!

There are so many things I want to do with Jared, Duke, Tenley, my job, my friends, my family, but I just can't do them all.  I don't want to give up anything.  I want to be a mom 100% of the time, I want to be a wife 100% of the time, a realtor 100% of the time, a friend 100% of the time - but that is just not possible.

So as I struggle to decide what percentages I want to give to each area of my life, I am blessed to know that at least I have options and I love all my options.  I just have to figure out what are the Good things and what are the GREAT things...