How to Save Time in Your Marriage

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1

We’ve got a clock in nearly every room in our home. We’re guessing you do, too. Oh, and then we look to our wrist or our phone to measure time, too.

Time seems to rule our days – and our nights!

The first mechanical clock, made by a blacksmith somewhere in Italy, was an alarm clock for a monk who had to wake his fellow monks in a monastery to start the day’s worship sequence. From this sprang the monster tower clocks, which appeared all over Europe after about 1200. We’ve all been consumed by time ever since.

But in this first month of the new year, we want to suggest you begin using a different devise for measuring time in your marriage.

We want you to consider measuring your time in terms of its value. In other words, how valuable is the time you spend together? After all, each of us places a different value on the increments of time, as the following reveals:

When you begin to measure time in terms of its value, rather than how many minutes or hours have passed, it helps you put it into perspective.

I learned to tell time and now I’m always late. –Lilly Tomlin

Rather than thinking about where you can carve out an hour together in your schedules, you can begin to think in terms of what you’d like that hour to accomplish for you. Maybe what you really want is a time to share a good laugh, or a time to be known, or a time to solve a particular problem.

And any one of these may take more or less than an hour.

You get the point. Rather than measuring time in increments, try measuring your time in terms of its purpose and you’ll be amazed to find you have more time than you thought.