DO YOU HAVE BIG ROCKS?

I’m developing big rocks. They were always there. Get ya mind out of the gutter. I’ve gone obsessive now and have begun painting the big rocks from my yard, nothing so extravagant. My wife bought a stencil and she and I are using Sharpies to write down life’s most important elements – GOD, silence, solitude, health, etc. The idea is that big rocks go into your 86,400 seconds a day first and everything else gets the crevices. We’ve realized, with the help of some people we respect, that crevice fillers will define your time and efforts each day unless you get intentional. In other words, the “alsos” of life can easily become the main ingredient of yours.

So tonight we’ll finish with the rocks by painting the rest and varnishing those bad boys. I’m thinking the rocks will make a great centerpiece but more important will be how the rocks are cultivated in my life every week from now ’til I push them daises. Take the practice of silence and solitude for instance. On Saturday I spent an hour in a gym by myself shooting as many perfect jump-shots as I could get up but the focus was not on shooting rather on quieting a busy mind and heart. I needed this time. It allowed me to escape the jeers, the pressure, the onlookers who misunderstand. The silence involved reflection and prayer and sometimes just a crossover dribble to a pull-up jumper from the left side. In fact, Saturday allowed me to combine three rocks in one episode. I was doing something healthy while trying to engage God and yet be silent in the tumult.

And so here we are, back to Monday but without a case of the “Mondays.” We couldn’t pay the DirecTV bill so the television is off and that actually helps. So the big rocks for us include but are not limited to:

• God
• Silence
• Solitude
• Health
• Husband-Wife Time
• Writing
• Creating

What are Yours? I’d like to know. May the Big Rocks bring meaning and significance.