day no. 15,941: at any given point in time, in every single thing we do

"'There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come." -- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, Learning in War-Time

There will never be a time where someone else does not want you to be doing something else. The only people who successfully live their priorities are those who want what they want badly enough to endure the disappointment of not doing what others wanted them to be doing. If you don't live your priorities, you will live someone else's. We are, at any given point in time, in every single thing we do, living someone's priorities. The only question is whose?

If you wait for better weather to do what you want, you will always be doing what you don't want... and in the rain to boot. You cannot wait to do what you've been called to do. You must receive your priorities from God and then exert your will, inasmuch as you are able, to live according to them.