Last week I had jury duty. Knowing that I could possibly be out of the house all day, all week, I planned ahead. I shopped ahead. I cooked ahead. I prepared clothes and school ahead. Now, if I were the superstitious sort, I would be tempted to think that all that preparation resulted in my dismissal after only one day in the courthouse. I prefer to think it was a result of God hearing my pleas for mercy. One day was enough.
Now that I look back over our week, I’m pleased to say that with the exception of the one day that I was gone, we had a great week—normal in every way. Because I had spent so much time planning and preparing, I was able to attend to our daily lives with more ease and less thought.
So often I am think that I don’t have time to “do” ahead. That I’m already behind, so how in the world would I have time to get ahead? What I’m seeing is that a few hours invested on a Saturday makes our week go much better. That word investment just popped out at me as I typed it. When we invest our income, we are setting some aside and not spending it now, in order to have more to spend later. When I invest my time wisely now, it multiplies my time later.
