Our Time Bank

Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning
with $86,400, carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to
keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the
amount you had failed to use during the day.

What would you do?

Draw out every cent, of course! Well, everyone has such a bank.
Its name is TIME and the banker is GOD. Every morning, He credits you
with 86,400 seconds. Every night He writes off, as lost, whatever of this
you have failed to invest to good purpose.

It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.

Each day He opens a new account for you. Each night He burns the
records of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is
yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the
"tomorrow".
You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to
get from it the utmost profit for His glory!

The clock is running. Make the most of today..

To realize the value of ONE YEAR
Ask a student who has failed and is held back a grade.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH
Ask a mother who has given birth to a baby born a month prematurely.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE DAY
Ask a daily wage laborer who has ten kids to feed.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. . .

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE
Ask a person who has just missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND
Ask a person who has survived an near-miss accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have!
And treasure it more because
you shared it with someone special..
special enough to have your time...
and remember time waits for no one...



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