A good friend of mine has reached a real milestone in his life. Today is his last day of full-time work before retirement. He told me that he worked over 200,000 hours in his work life!

That number equals 8,333 24-hour days or 22.83 years.  For a person who lives to age 80, they could have worked 25% of their lifetime.  One in four heart beats were given to providing for their family.

I know none of us work a 24-hour day, but it gives us something to think about.

How are we investing the 75% of our life?  What are we doing with the three out of four heart beats available to us?

I’m not viewing this in a negative way at all – just the opposite!

If we spend one of the three heart beats loving and serving our family, another caring for others, and the last of the three serving God and His church and the world, I think when the final tabulations are done we would hear:

Well done, good and faithful servant!

Let’s take a moment today and count to four.

Four heart beats.

One for work and the rest for us to invest!

Blessings!

Pastor Mark