Snooze

I love the snooze button on my alarm clock.  What better way to start your day than with procrastination.  I have noticed that without fail my first thought in the morning is “can I go back to sleep?”  Those few extra minutes I gain from hitting the snooze could be better spent doing many things, not the least of which would be setting my alarm back ten minutes so that I can get better sleep and then get up when my alarm goes off the first time.  I mean, my alarm clock is across the room from me, I’m already out of bed, and yet I still hit that snooze and climb back under the covers.

We are a procrastinating people.  We will put off whatever we can as long as we can.  In fact, I meant to blog this on Thursday, and now it is finally happening on Monday.  At this point, I don’t really know if I should shame us for putting things off, or congratulate us for our creativity in finding new ways to wait until the last minute. 

Normally, at this point in the blog I make some kind of profound, spiritual point.  I tried that, a few different varieties of it in fact, but they all sounded either cheesy or judgmental, all the things I don’t want this blog to be.  God told us to do all things for His glory, and I am choosing to believe that because that is true I can also procrastinate for His glory as well.  This doesn’t mean to be lazy, but it does mean that if I want to sleep in a few extra minutes tomorrow, I’m going to, and then when that snooze goes off I’m going to wake up and serve Him from that point on.