Lingerdog's World

I just couldn't get done tonight, what I wanted to get done, no matter where I turned, or how much I had planned, I just couldn't seem to focus on doing several things I wanted to do before sleep, and I wanted to go to bed early so daylight saving time didn't make me tired through church in the morning. And yet here I am at 11:30, knowing that I need to be asleep.
I needed to practice my guitar some, I missed the last two nights, one because I was working on a newsletter, the other because I was at a basketball game/mini concert. I had no excuse tonight, I was home by 8:30 or so.
I also wanted to do a few pages of my new converts class worksheets, just didn't get around to it.
There was plenty of time, but I squandered it, playing on the computer, surfing from facebook to another site I frequent. So, you may be wondering, what pearls of wisdom was I dispersing that distracted me from being able to do the more important task of the night, what in depth conversation did I become part of? Well, none, maybe posted three times in three hours, where does the time slip away?
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Well, I decided to go to sleep, and now it is Sunday night.
And no, I didn't get any guitar practice in today, but I'll get back on it tomorrow, and my exercise program. But to my original point, why is it so easy to just let time get away and the important things fall by the wayside as we focus on less important things?
Why does following through seem so hard to grasp these days? And how do we find the necessary strength to adhere to the plans we have made.
I started this blog because I had a lot of things I wanted to say, but if you look at my previous post history you'll see how few post I've posted, maybe two a month after the initial four the first month. It isn't lack of ideas that have kept me from posting, I have had lots more ideas than I've posted, little notes written on scraps of paper that I've saved to write about later, and never seemed to find the time to get them done.
And here I am today thinking about starting another blog to focus fully on a new direction and project in my life. And I'm going to do it, I have a name in mind, and hopefully no one out there is using it yet. I just need to learn to focus on what is important, the things that drive me, the things I want to do for the Lord. He didn't give me the gifts he did for me to squander them, and I plan to use them fully from this day forward. I have had it impressed upon me this weekend how important it is to serve now because one day I will be looking back at my life, and I will feel regret for the times I could have been serving the Lord, but wasn't.