Gain Your Life by Spending it

     I have been running for weeks now in endless circles it seems. There's alway something to replace the last job or assignment that I've finished so that I'm never done. There's projects I forget about and a bonus paper that gets submitted online 5 minutes before midnight. If I don't keep up with my calendar I double book myself. This is not cool at all!
     This last weekend I was able to slow down and have a wonderful weekend with my family. I had a moment to stop running and look around for once. I enjoyed playing games and sitting around chatting. I packed my lil nephew places with me. I went shopping with an awesome sister!All these things I did were so rejuvenating.
      I took a step back from myself to see what I looked like. (It's not a bad thing to do every once in awhile.) I didn't really like what I saw. I was looking at a girl that was absolutely drained! I was becoming ragged from life. Having a long weekend gave me the opportunity to regroup physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
     As I came back to school this week, feeling much better by the way, I was reminded of the scripture in Lamentations 3:22,23  It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.
     It is so easy to get caught up in the rush of humanity. It is so easy to be so focused on doing things for others and pleasing people in our lives that we forget about ourselves and become people who blindly spend our lives away. I'm not saying spending life is a bad thing. It can be a very good thing. Just be careful and make sure your spending it on something worth spending life on. Take time to spend life in a way that builds the soul back up rather than weaken and make it tired. As you go about your day make a conscious effort to "Gain your life by spending it". There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to do this. The Lord is full of compassions, His mercies are new every morning, and He is faithful.
    
     Mark 8:35   For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.