Time Wasted
By: Wilma Ditterline Foster

You never know how much you’ve missed out on until you leave. My new wife and I are moving back to Denver, Colorado next week and we’ve realized how many days we spent saying “we should get together with them” and then not doing it. It’s unfortunate that we learn this way by moving to another state and then wishing we would have seen this person or that person again. Granted, we did spend a lot of our weekends with her parents as they accepted me so graciously into the family and were able to nurture this relationship. But, we had time that we could have also spent getting to know others, spending time, discussing life, growing together, yet we didn’t. We thought there would always be next week or next month to see this friend or that friend.

I hope we learn this time in De`nver that our friends are special to us and we should take advantage of the relationships placed in front of us. I don’t know about you and your spouse or significant other, but my spouse and I are perfectly content spending every moment together, yet there are those people in our lives that bring something special in the moments we are allowed to spend with them. Is anyone else like this? How do you become the type of person that takes advantage of these moments? I feel like I do this in my relationship with God at times too. I think “I’ll pray later”, “I’ll talk to Him later”, “He’s always there so it’s not like He doesn’t have time.” But, more and more time passes in which I could be sharing in blessing and deeper relationship with Him and I choose to skip it because, seemingly, I have better things to do. Maybe it’s time to look at these things we’ve taken for granted and start nurturing them instead of letting more time pass us by.

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