The one thing I can't recycle is wasted time.
Of course only I can personally decide if the time I have used was wasted. I think my time is only wasted when I spend it doing something that is not a priority. Don't get me wrong, even rest and thought and time to contemplate are a priority to me. It's only wasted time if I didn't use it the way I wanted to use it. Oh you know, that "I am the master..." thing. Well, I am the master of my time and no one else.
I choose how I am going to spend my time even when there are things happening all around me, people and projects calling to me. When I feel like I am running around keeping plates spinning on sticks and they are all about to fall if I don't run and keep up. Sometimes the best thing is to let a plate fall - sometimes that is the best use of my time.
I know that I had better be the one to choose because I can't get these moments back and re-use them differently. They don't belong to anyone else, they belong to me. I can however use those "wasted" moments to learn for the next time, how better to use them. So, maybe they aren't wasted at all. They can become learning moments...if I choose. I'll know next time if that was productive huh?
I finished up the block for Women of the Bible Quilt called Potipher's Wife. It is a Joseph's Coat design modification. As the story goes, Potipher's wife wanted Joseph to sleep with her and he refused to dishonor her husband (his boss) and his God and ran out of the room. She grabbed his coat off him as he left and she used it as evidence that he tried to rape her. But, as always - God is in control.
I machine pieced this one and it was some tiny pieces as it is a 6" block. It is not perfect but I'll see how much time I want to spend later, if I am going to rip it out and re-do some of it. Ah...there is that time choice again and I can't re-cycle that time I spent doing it the first time. We'll see.
2 comments:
Hi Wendy thank you for stopping by my blog and for your kindness. I have been trying to comment on your blog, or sending you a e-mail without a succeed. But to day it works. I love your blocks, they are beautiful, do they belong to your quilt "Women of the Bible Quilt"? I look forward seeing that quilt. Keep up the good work,
Paula
You are so right, Wendy!! If we don't decide how we are going to spend our time, it's too easy for others to make that decision for us. It's also just as easy to let a day get away by not really making any conscious choices and instead just doing the laundry and the dishes and all of those other things that can take all of our time if we let them. That was what I had in mind when I wrote a humorous article for the April/ May Quilter's Newsletter called "A Quilter's Dictionary of Household Terms." It was meant to be a new look at housework as a by-product of quilting activities instead of a substitute for it to make people think about how they are prioritizing their time. Thanks for this post!
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