How we spend our days

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~Annie Dillard

This is an interesting thing to think about for me.  I don't know about you, but I don't often connect what I do in my day to day activities with the summation of my entire life.  It's just a day, it's just a few hours....what effect could it possibly have in the grand scheme of things?

But it has a huge effect.  A life-changing effect, in fact.  Because Annie Dillard is, in fact, right on the money.  What is our life, really, other than a summation of all of our days?  So how are you spending your life?  Are you spending it staring at a computer screen?  Chasing after meaningless relationships?  Unhappy and ineffective in your job?  Pushing your friends aside to achieve your dreams?  Drunk and wasted every weekend?  Doing anything that makes you feel good, regardless of the consequences to yourself or others?

Or are you spending it doing something of value?  Something that matters?  Something for His kingdom?

Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:1

⁷ Light is sweet,

   and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.

⁸ However many years anyone may live,

   let them enjoy them all.

But let them remember the days of darkness,

   for there will be many.

   Everything to come is meaningless.

 ⁹ You who are young, be happy while you are young,

   and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.

Follow the ways of your heart

   and whatever your eyes see,

but know that for all these things

   God will bring you into judgment.

¹⁰ So then, banish anxiety from your heart

   and cast off the troubles of your body,

   for youth and vigor are meaningless.

¹ Remember your Creator

   in the days of your youth,

before the days of trouble come

   and the years approach when you will say,

   “I find no pleasure in them”—