Sacrifice
If you’ve been reading this blog for the past week or so you know I’ve been trying everything I know to create enough time each day to get all my various work and personal desires accomplished. This has been a fleeting proposition for some time.
Two weeks ago I mentioned I’d decided to no longer check my Facebook account or do any form of internet searching (read the news online, look at articles that pop up while trying to check my email, etc) except one day a week and for a limited amount of time that day. This certainly gave me some time back as I realized I was probably wasting an hour or so a day looking at photos/status updates on FB and reading articles that really didn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things.
Then on Thursday, I made the grim discovery that even with all this change and a few others I still didn’t seem to have enough time. Not because my work exceeded the 16 hours daily given to work (this excludes 8 hours I try to set aside to sleep each night) but because I had become unorganized. A person who’d always prided herself in being organized had become…gulp…unorganized.
I had a wake-up call which turned into my weekend confession (see blog with that title from Friday if you didn’t get a chance to read it. Before I signed off last Friday, following a day of finally getting my home and work life organized, I determined this week would be different.
So I begin today with a renewed hope in my ability to love at my highest level and display a greater amount of patience than I have in a while. As I mentioned last week, when I’m stressed or stretched too thin, I find that I make less time to smile at the grocery store clerk, respond to my team members with patience and grace, or just the basic things that allow the light inside of me to shine brightly.
I can still proclaim I am a happy wife, as that is certainly the case, but I also must acknowledge the time
allotted for my family seems to get smaller and smaller when my schedule begins to get the best of me. I must figure out a way to get everything done and still maintain of balance of life, love and the existence of happiness.
So this week I am making another change and it is likely to be the greatest sacrifice or challenge to date. I am increasing my work week to six days instead of five with one day off to rest, renew and be refreshed. Due to changes in Keith’s workload, he’s also recently increased his work week to six days so thank God we’ll still be on the same schedule. Instead of TGIF we’ll be saying, TGIS!
Sometimes the answers to our greatest challenges lie in our willingness to sacrifice. Hopefully, for most of you that sacrifice doesn’t involve a six day work week. But maybe it involves making better purchasing decisions during times when finances and resources are getting tighter. I was talking to a woman on Saturday who shared with me she owns 100 pairs of shoes. Quickly calculating in my head I 
said, there’s only 365 days a year so what in the world do you do with 100 pairs of shoes. She admitted many are still sitting in the boxes without having been worn but she just loves shoes.
Sacrificing is rarely fun. And quite frankly, I’d be perfectly fine to do without it. But sometimes it is a necessary part of life, especially, when it comes to family and keeping a happy home. Sacrifices related to time and money are probably the most difficult to make. But so often we must decide to make them if we are to keep peace and harmony in our home and work place.
This week is going to be interesting. But oddly enough, I already feel an incredible sense of relief knowing I can spread the work out over six days instead of five. This sacrifice has now become my source of relief. I wonder if the same will happen for you when you commit to making a sacrifice you know will increase the overall health of your family.
Let’s see. If there is a sacrifice you know you need to make that you’ve been putting off, make this
week the week you surrender and getter’ done. Like me, you may find the sacrifice you’ve been resisting is the adjustment needed to finally allow you to bring balance to your life.
Until next time…make it a great day!
Fawn Weaver
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