Time Well Spent

As my wedding day seems to be quickly arriving (9 days away), I have often wondered where all my time has gone. It seems just like yesterday, I was having my fifth birthday party at Mcdonalds in Louisiana. It seemed like yesterday, I was moving to a foreign land called Georgia. Man that place is hilly... Memories came and went of graduations, college, seminary, and so many other things, but the question that came to my mind through it all was it time well spent? Did I spend my time wisely, or waste it away as if I had so much more time have and spend?

And yet, as this week has come, more question have invaded my mind. In lieu of the recent storms that devastated north Georgia, I have decided to dedicate most of my time to relief effort in Ringgold, Georgia. For every crushed house, I wondered has my time been well spent? Every tree snapped, every family helped, was my time well spent?

My answer came today to the answer which has alluded me for weeks in the form of an envelope. As I was cutting and removing trees, I found an old military envelope amidst the debris. Thinking the envelope may have had some sentimental value, I took it over to the wife. Overwhelmed with raw emotions, the woman nearly collapsed over a simple envelope. But for her, it was a shred of what she had left remaining of her mother and father. As it turned out, it was the envelope in which her father asked her mother to marry him. The woman could not stop thanking me for finding this simple envelope.

As I sit here now, I wonder if my time has been well spent, and I say yes! It has been well spent cutting tree down to allow bigger trucks to get the rest. It has been family birthdays, road trips to Texas, and trips to Disney World. It has been serving on mission work camps, repairing roofs, and allowing a 90 year old woman to believe my deaf brother heard every word she talk to him for over a hour and a half. It is my prayer this night your time has been as well spent as mine.