Lack of Time?

The real problem of life is never a lack of time.

The real problem of life is lack of thanksgiving.

Why did Jesus give thanks before He broke the bread and fishes that weren't enough to feed all the people? Did He need to? Did He do it to teach us to do it? Or, was it that He knew something about the relationship between thankfulness and time...and multiplying things. We might accurately report we don't have time to stop and be thankful, we've got thing to do and places to go to make things happen, to keep up...with all that we don't have time for.

...stopping to pray, in this world view, is a waste of...time.

...not according to Jesus. Things, including time, multiply when we allow ourselves to become thankful.

I redeem time from neglect and apathy and inattentiveness when I swell with thanks and weigh the moment down and it's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough.

-- Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts