Have you received your $1400 yet? It is hard to imagine the over 1.9 trillion dollars in the bill Congress passed. Trying to imagine that much money is difficult, but harder still is how are we going to pay it back? I can’t imagine the 26 trillion dollars our country already owed before this bill passed. I wonder if the Congress even thinks about paying money back. What do you think? A fable was written about a woman. It goes like this:

A woman once had a dream that an angel was giving her this message: “As a reward for your virtues, the sum of $1400 will be deposited into your bank account every morning. There is only one condition. at the close of each business day, Any balance that has not been used will be cancelled. It won’t carry over to the next day or accrue any interest. Each morning a new $1400 will be credited to you.

She finally realized that every one of us receives 1400 minutes every morning! What we do with this deposit is very important. I know that some of the 1400 hours are used up for sleeping, but sleeping is using the 1400 wisely. Some of us work more hours than we should and that is not healthy. However, there are plenty of hours left and how we use them is what we should examine.

I think we should set aside some time every day for God. He who made everything around you and provides those things you need for a good life. He does provide work and play. Why don’t we give him some of the 1400 hours? I believe if we gave him some of the time we receive,we would experience less strife, a smile would be on our faces more often than a frown and our work would be easier and more productive.

Let’s make up a schedule for a week and see what happens. on it should be eating, sleeping, working, playing, our gift to God and maybe some goof off time. But don’t spend too much time for that! I can see mine already. I’ll want to have too much time for to goof off and that’s not good!

All right, let’s go. Okay?

I was thinking about my little girl, when she was a little girl, She is a mother of a collage Junior now. Her class was taking a timed math test, which meant she must answer each problem correctly in so many minutes. I believe she was in the third grade at that time. When the kids finished the test, they could go outdoors and play.The children had all finished their test and were happily playing, all, except my little girl. She was still working diligently on the problems. Finally, the teacher went over to her desk and said, “Didn’t you know that this was going to be a timed test?” My girl answered her, “Would you rather have it RIGHT or FAST”? The teacher told me about it later, saying, “I really didn’t know what to say”.

That popped into my head when I heard President Biden say he ordered enough of the vaccines to be ready so that every American who wants to be vaccinated, will be vaccinated in June. That sounded like something that will be hard for all the scientists, etc. to accomplish. It seems RIGHT, not FAST should be asked, doesn’t it?

I was teaching Old Testament in the Bible some years ago to a group of teenagers.I asked them to explain the chapter we had just read. They couldn’t. I was pretty sure they couldn’t because their eyes had just skimmed the chapter. I said, “Read it again, this time slowly and thoughtfully.” They did. And they had all kinds of thoughts about the chapter. They practiced RIGHT instead of FAST.

Probably we should all keep that RIGHT or LEFT thought in our brains. I know I often rush through things that would be better off RIGHT.