I don’t have AADD (Adult Attention Deficit Disorder).  I am usually pretty good at putting my full attention to a project or task until it is at least 90% finished.  I am a man so the last 10% usually drags out for several months or years.  Actually, there are many times when Christine says I have a one track mind, so how’s that for being focused?

Anyway, with all that seems to happen in life these days it is hard to stay focused on just one thing.  It is really impossible.  At work the other day, my boss and I were talking about projects in the shop.  He said we needed to concentrate on this one project.  When I brought up another project, he said we need to concentrate on it too.  I told him that was like trying to look forwards and backwards at the same time.  The only result will be whiplash.

That is how I feel about work, family, training, fundraising and everything else going on in the world.  I have constant whiplash.  And then I thought of the Bible passage from Ecclesiastes 3:

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

It may never seem like there are enough hours in the day to do all that needs to be done.  There are.  The hard part is deciding what actually “needs” to be done.

I think that we need to use some of those hours helping the children of St. Jude find  “a time to heal, a time to laugh, a time to dance…“ And we need to be doing those things as well.

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