Blog #4: Priorities

            For those of you who know me, you know I am a HUGE sports fan. During my high school years, I would spend hours upon hours watching any basketball I could find on TV. Even just three years ago, I watched plenty of basketball, never missed a Saints game, and watched every Atlanta Braves game I could. Today, I remain a huge sports fan. However, I have drastically reduced the amount of time I spend watching sports. I no longer watch basketball; and I’ve only seen maybe 4 Saints games over the last 2 years. One thing I still watch as much of as possible is the Atlanta Braves. At the time of this writing, it’s October. Those of you who follow Major League Baseball, you know what that means: postseason baseball. This season’s Braves were underwhelming for most of the year, but made a run late in the season, won the division, and have made an improbable push to the world series defeating the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series and Championship Series, respectively, to face the Houston Astros in the World Series. During this postseason run, I have missed maybe 4 innings of Braves baseball outside of games on Friday night or Sabbath. Backstory complete, it got me thinking recently. I have spent a ridiculous number of hours this October on my couch, watching baseball. Not that there is anything wrong with watching baseball. But it got me thinking, how do we spend our time in today’s world? My girlfriend always tells me something along the lines of “how we spend our time shows the priorities in our lives”. This is true with everything in our life, but especially in our relationship with God. We can claim we have a relationship with God, but does how we spend our time show that God is a priority in our life? There are so many distractions in the world that draw our attention from God. We spend so much of our lives prioritizing things that add no value to our relationship with God. How do you spend your time? The happiness brought by worldly entertainment is temporary. Only God can provide the joy that’s everlasting. Maybe it’s time we all reexamine how we spend our time and what we prioritize.

-Evan