Priority-the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important! More important than what?  Assets?  Social events?  Money? What are our priorities? During a recent recovery from a surgery, I found my priority to be “get well-get back to normalcy-get back to my routine.”

Being in isolation during recovery from an illness or surgery is not ideal. We spend a vast amount of time in quiet solicitude and our thoughts.  It’s not always best for our emotional health, as it gives us too much time to reflect and ask ourselves, “what if.”

When we have recovered from that time of quiet healing, what are our priorities? Our priorities change as situations in our lives change. Because of my “age” , my priorities are different than when I was a teen, a young wife and mother or even an older mother.

Life is truly a choice of priorities. For some persons, it’s how many more social events can we add to our already “too busy” schedule?  For others, it’s how much more money can we earn? For me, it’s “if only” I could have even “five more minutes.” The cliché that life passes too quickly becomes more valid as we age.

Recently I read an introspective commentary. It shares the feelings many of us have with our current priorities. “Barely the day started and it’s already six in the evening. Barely arrived on Monday…and the month is already over and..50 or 60 years of our lives have passed, and we realize we have lost our parents, our friends…and it’s too late to go back…let’s try to eliminate the afters…I’m doing it after…because what we don’t understand is after the coffee gets cold, afterwards priorities change…afterwards the kids grow up…afterwards the parents get old…and then it’s too late…so let’s leave nothing for later.”

Recently I viewed a poignant movie on the loss of a mother for a “bride to be.” She was sharing with another young woman that chose not to see her mother the importance of priorities; the importance of “do it today.”  The bride to be stated, “she always assumed she could talk to her mom when she was ready, but now it’s too late. It’s too late for questions or answers. It’s too late to thank her for all the wonderful things she’s done for me. It’s too late to sit down and have a cup of tea. I wish I could do even one of those things as I wouldn’t waste even one second.”

As you arise today, what is your priority? As a Christian, my faith has to be greater than or equal to my family. I know without God, I can do nothing. I won’t be the person I should be nor accomplish the tasks set before me, if God is not directing me. However, I never want to say, I assumed I had plenty of time. At this decade of my life, I fully understand my time is fleeting, so when I’m asked to be with someone or do it, I don’t want to be like the bride to be and say, “now it’s too late.”

Luke 12:34 NKJV “for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”