Putting it Off, Putting it Off…
Posted by nathan on 05 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: random., thoughts on god., thoughts on life.
This morning, we awoke to about 2″ of snow on the ground.
We have a two-car garage, which makes it very nice in the winter to be able to park in the garage and not have to scrap the snow and ice off the windows in the morning.
Of course, I’ve been lazy, and there isn’t room for me to park my car in the garage at the moment. Emily can park in the garage, but I cannot. My side has a stack of shingles, empty cardboard boxes, three different types of powered saws, a pair of saw horses and some other miscellaneous odds and ends. The thing I, I have known for months I needed to clean up the garage. It’s been on my mind especially over the past two or three weeks but yet I haven’t done anything about it.
I think this is like our walk with Jesus, sometimes. We know what we should do, but we keep putting it off, putting it off, putting it off until we finally come to the realization, ‘Huh, I really should have done this a long time ago. It would have saved me a lot of time, I could have done it more comfortably earlier and it’s not as easy any more.’
Wouldn’t it have just been much easier for me to clean up the garage when it was 60 degrees out instead of doing it tonight when it’s 30? Will I ever learn my lesson?
Or, will I not do it tonight and put it off again?
Have you ever been there?
2 Comments »
on 05 Dec 2007 at 12:28 pm 1.
marvincruz said …
Yes, I did. And it hurts when you came to the point of saying, “I should have done this before”.
on 06 Dec 2007 at 11:36 am 2.
Penny said …
In 2008, my resolution is to stop procrastinating! Or, at least reduce it by 75%. I think it’s inevitable, though. There’s never enough hours in a day to do everything you want to do, so you do the stuff you NEED to do, and the stuff you WANT to do. If there’s time left, you do what you don’t really want or NEED to do, if you feel like it. That’s the back burner stuff that gets procrastinated. That’s the stuff that I say, well, I’ve put it off this long, what’s another week? I’ve got to stop that.