In the bible, God completely created the heaven and earth within six days. By the seventh day, He finished what He had been doing and stopped working (Gen. 1:1-31, 2:1-4).

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This month, before I forgot is a fire prevention month. The bureau of fire protection (BFP) celebrates this campaign through out the Philippines annually. So, with this we must be watchful of our respective houses to avoid accident that can harm our family and friends.

When less becomes more?

Mathematically, this question was answered and discussed in the classroom particularly on Linear Inequalities in two variables. Here are some examples of when less is more:

1. Less expenses; more savings

2. Less trees; more floods

3. Less make-up; more beautiful

4. Less talk; more listening

5. Less money; more peace of mind

But that's not the point of my article. Let's have more on spiritual aspects of our lives.

Despite of many challenges we encountered in our lives such as worries and fears, ups and downs, failures and mistakes or lapses, obstacles and trials, we are still kicking and alive. We're so still blessed and thankful that we are able to overcome those inevitable situations or instances.

If something is overused, its value definitely diminished. Same holds through with us. During weekdays, if our day is occupied with lot of works to be done, at the end of the day, surely we will be exhausted. What about during weekends? Are you still working? On Sunday, what did you do? Still working on Lord's day? I think, it's our time to rest. The best things to relax are:

1. Visit the house of God. Meditate and Pray.

2. Listen His words. Follow and obey.

3. Bring good news to the people. Teach and apply.

Time for Yourself

God gave us six days to work and one day to rest. Which means to say, six days for ourselves and only one day for God. We spend more time for ourselves. We're so busy in our respective workplaces.

As teachers, we are overloaded with lot of works especially in preparing modules to be distributed to our students until computing their grades. We sometimes dismayed receiving their answer sheets as clear as crystal 😭😭😭. It seems like they don't even touch and read the modules. It's another problem for us to compute their grades and we are instructed not to fail our students since there is no face to face discussion. Jusmeo! Wala gyoy teacher ani nga makasud sa langit.

Here is another! At the end of the month, we will be preparing documents to be submitted for our monthly reports and securing evidences like minutes and accomplishment completion report to support the principles in School Based Management or known as SBM.

At home, there are many household chores to be done plus duties and responsibilities as parents to perform. We give time for our children which is supposedly the most important to do.

All of these worldly things would sometimes lead us to frustration, depression, and stress. Other people attempt to suicide just to end their problems while others ask help and guidance from the Lord.

Time for God

In the third of the 10 commandments, it says remember the Lord's day and keep it holy. God asks our time to go to His place for He will listen our prayers. Can you imagine how little time God is asking us? In fraction, one over seven, 1/7 or 14% only for the Lord and 86% for ourselves within a week. Why is God like that? My answer to that is because He really loves us so much.

We have Less time for God but it helps us to know Him more. We will use that time to love Him more. And most importantly, we will use that little time to serve Him more through His people.

Though we have only less time for God, let's do more good to others. Let's show kindness to them. All our achievements here on Earth will be gone but our faithful God remains forever.

Thank you for reading my third article.

Keep safe everyone.