Leftover

I talk to you all the time about the moments that count. However, I understand there are a lot of you out there who think that a bunch of your moments do not count for as much as you’d like them to. So you’ve asked me if, well, you can store them somewhere for later use.

I’d love to tell you, “Yeah!”

Ahhh, but, no…………….

Where ya’ gonna put ‘em? In your pocket? In your shoe? In the food pantry? On the other hand, maybe you’d set up a special safe deposit box at the bank? Or maybe you would like to carry ‘em over like extra minutes on your cell phone plan? You know, then use ‘em next month, ‘cuz it feels to you like this month’s had way too many moments that you had to spend in ways you didn’t really want to, so you know next month will be better for spending the moments that you want to count.

Or better yet, remember that incredible Jim Croce song, Time in a Bottle?
What a poet he was……

Well, Jim put it really well when he wrote:

“If I could save time in a bottle
the first thing that I’d like to do
is to save every day……..”

What if we could do that with those moments we felt we’d “wasted” or the ones we count as ill used?
What would we do differently with those moments than we did with them the first time they laid in the hands of our clock of time?

Remember another part of that song……?
I mean the one that says,
“But there never seems to be enough time
to do the things you want to do
once you find them……..”

So, my friends, I smile an easy smile as I blow a kiss in the air to Jim and look back at you all and say, I too, so, so wish there was some amazing, magic bottle to save those moments of ours in. For I too, want Jim’s magic words to come true.

But, until the day that bottle we want washes up on our shore, I guess we’ll just have to learn to count the treasure in all the moments as we spend them.