Where You Lead

In A Minute!

Do you have kids? If so, you’ve probably heard those three words more than you can count. Whether we remind the kids to take out the trash, make their beds or do their homework, something else is always more important or must be completed first before they do as they’re told. Of course, that “something” is often a phone call with a best friend, the ending of a TV show or some online communication. It’s clear that these things that don’t seem important to us are very important to them – more important than obeying their loving parents.

As much as I’d like to think that I’ve outgrown that behavior in my own life, the truth is I spend a lot of time telling my heavenly Father “In a minute!” I wake in the morning, make coffee, see the family off to work and school then… read my email. I might check a few forums or read the tweets that accumulated overnight. For someone who starts her day at 5am you’d think I’d get to my morning prayers and meditation well before 10am! And yet, as noon fast approaches, I’m still thinking, “Just one more minute.”

Nothing I do from the moment my family leaves the house until the time that I actually sit down with my Lord is more important than my relationship with Him. Nothing matters if I don’t obey Him. Like a self centered child, I put Him off, telling Him to wait. Of course, just like one of my own kids, when I want something from my Father, I beg and plead because I want it NOW.

It’s time that I stop procrastinating in the morning and start making God my top priority. Email and twitter can wait. Chit chatting at forums can wait. My Father has waited for me long enough.