Excision

Hey, nobody uses that word. Excision. It means "a cutting away, as of a tumor." As a novelist, I try to avoid using unfamiliar words. They interrupt the reader's train of thought.

Occasionally, we need to take a close look at how we spend our time. As life goes along, we tend to add activities, until we get to a point of 'having too much on our plates.'

In order to do everything with quality, "as unto the Lord," (Eph. 6:7), we just can't do everything that appeals to us. We've all got our limit, and it's usually short of what we think!

Cutting back is painful. We have to eliminate activities we've grown to love, in order to do the things God has really called us to. It's an excision. Even though the things we need to eliminate don't seem like tumors---many are good works!--- they nonetheless have to be cut out of our lives.

Keep the good memories. God put them in your life to make you more useful in spreading His kingdom. Rejoice. Smile. Turn the page.

"For everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1

"The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Job 1:21