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Here’s a piece of advice you won’t find in most time management books: If you want to make better use of your time in 2006, your best bet is to consult the Maker of time, God himself. Only by discovering his plan for you and your family can you truly and fully make the most of this year.
God uses many means to tell you how to spend your time. You’ll find key principles in the Bible, the Ten Commandments, the teachings of the Church, and the examples of the saints. But the most instructive example—the one we should all be pondering every day—is the earthly life of Jesus.
Real Success. “When the time had fully come” (Galatians 4:4), God himself entered time and submitted himself to its laws. The Timeless and Eternal One had to learn to manage his time, just like us. What did he do?
Until the beginning of his ministry, he lived what we would call an ordinary life. He let hour after hour pass without accom-plishing anything that was recorded for posterity. He didn’t spend his time in ways that gained him a lot of material comforts or worldly fame. In fact,…
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