I don't have time for _____

So I just had an epiphany in the shower.

(TIME OUT: Now. I know you are going to see the time stamp on this and think, it is Sunday, after 3 pm, on Labor Day weekend, why are you just now showering? Before you judge, please consider the following:

1. My church meets at 6 pm for the time being.

2. I am dog-sitting.

3. My monthly friend/monthly enemy/Aunt Flo/nature's curse/man's monthly demise/devil's gift reared it's ugly head this morning. Hello Midol.

4. I worked out.

5. Need I say more? TIME IN.)

Anyway, I was in the shower thinking of all the things we say we never have time for. Let me give you a few recent examples that I have used.

I don't have time to/for:

-make it to the gym

-read my Bible

-do a 20 minute work-out DVD (screw you Jillian. OK, I am sorry.)

-make it to the 7:18 bus for work

-grocery shop (Darn, I guess I will have to eat out, AGAIN)

-clean my bath tub/sink/room/car/kitchen/yougetthepoint

-talk to the annoying girl at work

-smile at people

-laugh at stupid jokes

-listen to the people at work who are lost and think they are found

So I was thinking of my day and my weekend and what I need to do with my life and pondering the rest of my existence (normal shower thoughts... right?) and I was getting overwhelmed. And then it hit me, I simply don't have time to be negative. OK, I know, that sounds like that girl who says "Turn that frown upside down!" and "Don't worry, be Happy!" But it is true. I do not have time to let negative thoughts dominate, and God doesn't want that for us either. I am 24. I have time to get married and have kids. I have time to go back to school. I have time to buy a house. I have time to get a dog. I have time to get a new job. I have time to travel. I have time to visit friends. I have time to call my grandmother. I have time.

I don't have time to think about not getting married, being in a crap job forever, never getting married, not being good enough, not being pretty/funny/smart/fill in the blank enough, how it is only monday morning at 8 am and not Friday at 4:59pm. You get it? We don't have time to do this. Or energy. Or the necessity. I have to move on. It is definitely time.