If you have been following my writing, you know I like to write about things which unify.  Things which effect all of us equally, regardless of race, creed, nationality, or socio-economic status.  I have called these issues, non-respecter of person issues.

As we approach a new year, time is one of those issues, and one worth reflecting upon, in my opinion.

Each of us are appointed a time to be born, and a time to die.  Neither date do we get to choose.  All we get to choose is how we invest the time in between.

How will you invest your next year?

If your appointed time doesn’t arrive in the course of the next 365 days, how will the investment you make over that time period compound to enhance your 2020 and beyond? 

Yes, I believe our investment of time is like our investment of money.  It has the potential to compound the effectiveness of our abilities in future years.  Conversely, if we squander our time, our abilities will likely be squandered rather than enhanced. 

I am pro-choice when it comes to how an individual chooses to invest or squander the time they are allotted. 

I pray you will choose to invest your time wisely in 2019. 

I wish you a productive and prosperous new year.

More next week.

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“Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past – let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” – John F. Kennedy, Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, MD, February 19, 1958.

I began this week sad about the radical division which exists in our republic. A division which is amplified and exacerbated by the main stream media, on both sides of the political spectrum.

It is interesting to note that while the networks and the personalities driving the division become wealthy, those digesting their product are angrier and more stressed, which has an impact on quality of life, healthcare, and ultimately the pocketbook.

I still believe as citizens, more unites us than divides us!

If we are willing to make the effort to get to know our neighbors, who on the first look of things, are on the opposite side of the divide, we will become amazed at the similarities and the healing and understanding which can be accomplished, if we make the investment.

The cold civil war, which is fomenting, aided by a complicit media, will not be stopped in Washington. Perhaps it won’t be stopped within politics at all, but through individual courage, hope and love, at the lowest of local levels – investing time, seeking to understand more than simply seeking to be understood.

As we approach Christmas, where we celebrate and desire “peace on earth,” I hope each of us will make such an investment.

Here’s wishing you a productive week, and a very Merry Christmas!

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