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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 1298 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomLife Happens Fast – Ask Gramps

Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1298 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series. Each Friday, we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy. As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’  Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible. No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.

We may mix it up a bit on our Friday episodes, but will strive to keep them down to earth and enjoyable.  If you have any questions that you would like to ask Gramps, please email them to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com (mailto:guthrie@wisdom-trek.com)

So the question for this week is:

“Hey Gramps, life just seems to slip by faster each year. I want to live a life of purpose, but most of the time, it seems like I am just racing from one event onto another, with little time to breathe, let alone reflect on what is most important. What wise tips can you give me to help slow down and live a full life, not a fast life?

 Life Happens FastI am not sure that I am the best qualified to answer this, but I doubt that few of us have the speed of life under as much control as we should. We hear the admonition to stop and smell the roses, or the coffee, but few of us really do. I love the smell of both roses and coffee, but I have to ask myself, do I invest enough time doing so? We all need to learn to, watch more closely, to pay attention, to slow down, and to invest our time wisely. For most of us, life comes at us full force from our first breath and does not slow down until our last. We think in our minds, there is no time to waste. It is time we consider and practice the art of investing our time so that it daily reaps rewards that are eternal. That can’t happen when life is a blur.

Yes, scripture informs us that life is short, but we will make it shorter if we do not invest time properly. It is eternal kingdom work that we need to focus on  James 4:14-15 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+4%3A14-15&version=NLT) How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”

Since we do not know how our lives will impact eternity, we must invest our lives carefully with wisdom Ephesians 5:15-16 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5%3A15-16&version=NLT) So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.

When we live life on a treadmill or hamster wheel running ever faster but getting nowhere, we lose our joy and purpose for living and will have little impact on eternity. The evil one is a joy robber.  John 10:10 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+10%3A10&version=NLT) The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. Jesus cares little for how fast we rush through life, but instead,