Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone. … Teach us to make the most of our time, so that we may grow in wisdom.
Psalm 90:9-10, 12

Aportion of Scripture that guides me constantly is 2 Peter 3:8, where Peter says, "A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day."

I believe that every moment is an opportunity to be seized. Each day is as a thousand years; our twenty-four-hour slice of time is a sunrise-to-sunset opportunity for us to do something, by the grace of God, that counts for eternity. Everything we do here has a direct bearing on what's going to happen there. When I think about it, it makes me not want to waste my moments but to redeem the time, to seize the opportunity.

A French mystic of the seventeenth century said that God does not give us time in which to do nothing. There is no such thing as empty time. Now, certainly there ...