Burning Your Priorities

[420 words] From Jumper Fables by Ken Davis Years ago, when I was a teenager, I sat in a youth meeting and listened to a speaker talk about identifying the important aspects of your lives. “Don’t waste your time working towards goals that aren’t really important to you,” he said. “Figure out what really is important to you, what really matters, what you really want to accomplish, then work toward that.” He gave us five pieces of paper and had us write on each of them one of the top five aspects of our lives. Relationship, abilities, goals, talents, dreams–anything that was a top priority in our lives at that time went onto those sheets. Choosing those five priorities wasn’t easy. Lots of things popped into my mind, and it was hard to choose the top five. It was like writing a Christmas list that can only have five things…