Priorities: How to Decide What's Important (Life is Like Grocery Shopping)
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I recently got back to reading The Man In The Mirror by Patrick Morley and published by Zondervan (ISBN 0310233682). I have been really impressed by the book overall and I have had some great discussions with my brother-in-law, George, on several of the chapters.
Today I was reading Chapter 14, Priorities: How to Decide What's Important, and I really appreciate the grocery shopping analogy that Mr. Morley used. He mentions how almost everyone has gone grocery shopping on an empty stomach and without a shopping list only to wind up at the cash register having bought a ton of unhealthy stuff that has little to do with the nutritional meals that will need to be cooked throughout the week. The result is to have missed the point of grocery shopping because there was no list to guide what to get and there were very attractive temptations pulling you away from what should have been the priority. Just like the grocery store, life’s many options compete for our time. To have any control over our lives, however, to choose appropriately what to spend our time on, we must decide in advance what our priorities are and then live according to them.
Other notes from the chapter:
· Saturdays often serve as a bell whether for evidence of what priorities you are actually living by. Saturdays are like discretionary spending and how we spend this time indicates where our treasure truly is.
· Consider how your dreams and hopes for your children reflect on your own priorities.
· If we could change ourselves just in the areas of loving God and loving others we will demonstrate more of the Gospel than any generation before us.
· Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
· When laying out your priorities don’t forget that to honor your father and mother is one of the Ten Commandments.
· John 13-17 reflects the last 24 hours of Jesus life. Reflect on what Jesus did and said with this time knowing that he knew when he was to be put to death.
One more note, there is a web site devoted to the topics of the book at http://www.maninthemirror.org/.
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