“Time Management for When the Wind Blows” by @Kaala►...
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“Time Management for When the Wind Blows” by @Kaala
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One of the very biblical virtues I’m wanting to take root in my life is diligence, which is careful and persistent work and effort.
One of my favorite stories to illustrate this diligence is of the farmhand who could “sleep when the wind blows.”
The story starts out with a farmer looking to hire help for his farm. In one of his interviews he asked a man for his qualifications.
The farmhand said, “I can sleep when the wind blows.” The owner was puzzled by the response but decided to give the man a chance. Over the following weeks whenever the farmer asked the hand about his tasks he always received the same response, “I can sleep when the wind blows.”
A little while later a huge storm swept over the countryside and woke the farmer and his wife in the middle of the night. They ran to wake their helper but found him fast asleep. So the farmer rushed out alone to take care of his farm.
What he found were the shutters secured, the tools already placed in the shed, the barn doors locked tight and everything tied down. Even the animals seemed calm.
That’s when the farmer understood his assistant’s qualifications and what it meant. When the storm does hit, and it will, the farmhand will be sleeping soundly because he’s been diligent with his time and energy.
The bible says “The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.” (Proverbs 13:4)
There are so many proverbs that make me nervous and bite my nails but the ones on the “sluggard” especially do.
Like
“A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.” (Proverbs 20:4)
Or how about
“The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.” (Proverbs 15:19 )
I had to look up the word to make sure that what I was thinking was what the word was meaning. The dictionary says a sluggard is
“A lazy, sluggish person.”
Ouch. I don’t think of myself as lazy but there are times that I may stay a little bit longer in the bed or on the couch than I should. And there are things around the house that should’ve been taken care of a LONG time ago.
(Sorry, honey.)
And there are some entire days that I struggle to figure out what I did that was productive!
Let me get practical here. Today, make a list of what has to be done. Then look over that list of to-dos and, beginning with the most important one, work on that one thing until you’re finished or you can’t go any further with it.
Then move to the next most important one, do it until it’s done or you can’t go further. Move to the next and so on.
If you can do this consistently, day in and day out, you can claim diligence AND, sleep when the wind blows.
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