Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 1383 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomInvest Your Time Wisely – Ask GrampsWisdom - 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 1383 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series. Each Friday, we will ponder some of the fundamental 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, once life and the economy get back to some sort of normalcy after the Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, what is the best way that I can make an impact on my world? I don’t think that the world will be quite the same, and I want to make sure that I can make a positive difference, how best should I approach life after this pandemic.


Invest Your Time Wisely


After the event of the past couple of months, I think that most of us would like to rush out and make a significant impact on our world. To fix everything that is broken. To help all those who are hurting or may have been devastated. I feel confident that most of us want to do some great things with our lives. But we labor under the illusion that genuinely great things are reserved for a chosen few—those who are Heroes, Martyrs, and Saints. Deep inside us, we probably don’t feel that you and I are the ones who can.


 


What if the most extraordinary thing is not to go out in a blaze of glory, but to honor God with a life that seeks to do his will in the little things? Not to climb the highest mountain, but to stay on the uneven course that life has marked out for you? Not dying for your faith, but staying true to it over a challenging lifetime? Think of the word I just mentioned, extraordinary. If we break that compound word down, it is extra and ordinary. What if we do the mundane, ordinary tasks of life, with just a little more passion and concern? That ordinary will become extraordinary.


Think of the 24-hour blocks of your daily life as bank-fresh bundles of 24, $100 bills. Your challenge each day is to “invest your time.” You can’t bank it. You can’t save up until you get $50,000 or $100,000. You get a fresh handful of life currency each morning, and any uninvested balance evaporates before tomorrow comes.


You invest life assets when you mentor a new employee or associate who is struggling. You invest when you listen to a friend who is upset, or volunteer to help someone who needs just that little extra assistance. You invest when you are laying down your life when you are generous with hard-earned money to help someone who has lost their job, or a family that is being drained by long-term illness, or the ministries of your church that help those less fortunate.


If you are a parent or grandparent, you have invested a considerable portion of your life in giving birth,...