How we spend our days

In her book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard beautifully reveals that a schedule is like a safe haven within “the wreck of time.” She says, “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.”

How true.

If our days are somewhat messy and without much direction, it’s quite likely that those days will string together to form a life that is much the same.

To lead a life of meaning and consequence — that life that we’re called to live — we begin with one day ... or perhaps one hour. Or even this very moment.

(H/T Jason for introducing me to Annie Dillard’s work.)