Getting caught up in Life?

It is amazing how quickly a person gets side tracked with 'life'. The hussle and bussle. The everyday work and activities take over and before you realise the things that are important in life get neglected. Over the past 2 months there has been soem changes in my life and in particular in the work that I do.

I have moved completely into working in the sport that I love and with the athletes that I admire for their dedication, motivation and persistancy. This is swimming. The hours of training, time spent at competitions and away from family amazes me.

Along with this move has come extra early mornings, long days and getting home after dark. Associated with this move i have neglected my responsibilities. My responsibilities as a Christian, who commited his life to serving God and who also committed his life to sharing my faith and that of sportsmen and women that I get in contact with, I have neglected over the last while. There are no excuses and I have have just not prioritised my days appropriately. Not doing my quiet times, spending time sharing with friends and family and not posting on this blog, has been the scenario.

It amazes me how quickly we can loose track, loose the plot and loose focus on what is important. And what do we do, we use the excuse 'I am so busy'. Reality is however that it is all just excuses and lack of planning, prioritising and just plan laziness. From time to time we slip and don't keep up, which is uacceptable. We need to always re-evaluate where we are, what we are up and what is important. In hindsight, I can see God's hand in my life throughout this last 2 months and how he has blessed me personally (with the new job for example).

So, the challenge is to each of us to continually re-evaluate what we are up to and if it forms part of what is important in life. So I am, are you?

God Bless
SB