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aedifico42| On Time…

Posted at: 10:22 am

   Time, we are taught in the first degree, is an invaluable and irreplaceable resource.  Franklin tells us that it is the stuff that our lives are made of.  So it stands to reason that time cannot and should not be wasted.

   In recent weeks, there has been a decline in the frequency and length of the blogging activity on this site.  The important factor that we all realize (because we are Masons, and we’re smart) is that the primary authors of this site may be involved in more important activities.  To be sure, sharing thoughts with brothers around the world is important work.  But as we all know, there is a time for everything.

   Have you made time for your family recently?  Your Lodge?  Your “I gotta do that thing I’ve wanted to do all my life” thing?  Have you invested your time in yourself?  If you are like so many others, you have not.  You spend so much time and energy doing the things that you have to do, that you don’t have time to do the things that you want to do.  Such is the life of a busy man.

   But I take you back to that first degree…the night of your initiation where you were introduced to that first and most important of tools.  Look back to that ritual.  Figure out which was the first tool presented and explained to you.  Are you using it as you were instructed?  Are you taking command of your life?  Or is your life taking command of you?

   Tonight, I will be at my Lodge playing poker with my brothers.  No ritual, no meetings, no discussions about the building or the budgets.  We are taking the time to enjoy each other’s company as friends do.  Sure, we had to set a date and make other calendar adjustments…but tonight we play.  It is our gift to ourselves and each other.  It is time well spent enjoying the fruits of our labor and we will enjoy every minute (until the Big Unit takes all of our money…then we all get silly and complain about his cigars and cushy government job).

   It is the time of your life.  Spend it wisely.  And never forget that having read this, you have spent a few Masonic Minutes with my thoughts…and for that, I am eternally grateful.

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