The Final Four

March Madness is well underway for college basketball. Happily my husband's team made it into the Final Four this year!

It's an interesting concept to take multiple competing teams and through game after game narrow down all the teams to just four.

I wonder what would happen if we had a season of March Madness in our lives. If we took the things that compete for our time and one by one played them against each other to determine the most important pieces of our days.

What would be your final 4?

Would you have two distinct sets of winners, a weekend version and a work week version? Or would you find they all mesh together to produce 4 clear winners?

Also important to consider is what factors would you use to determine the winners? Would you consider amount of time spent or quality of time spent? Would you look at results gained by spending time in a particular area or perhaps the excitement you feel in those moments?

I know we all can have many different activities and priorities to juggle. It could be hard to focus on just 4 things. But I hope that we don't lose sight of what we hold most important in life no matter how many other distractions come our way.

Paul says, "Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14