Fitting It All In

With this holiday season comes all the usual requests for my time and money. We have a charity budget and God has blessed us with the ability to helps others, but unfortunately He only created a 24 hour day. I recently contacted a wise friend, who seems to always be doing 10 wonderful things at a time for others along with homeschooling and taking care of her family, with the intent of convincing her to tell me how she does everything she wants and needs to do. Then I too could make the most of what sometimes seems like a miserly 24 hours. Her response was "Unless you can live without sleep, you can't do everything".
But what about knitting scarves hats and mittens for the soldiers and homeless? And filling care packages for the troops? Or filling the Christmas Shoe Boxes for the kids abroad? Or standing on the corner with signs of support for our country? What about all the extra church services? Teaching my child the true meanings of the Thanksgiving and Christmas? Thanksgiving dinner? Christmas shopping (or the ones I want to make)? Baking cookies? Making ornaments? Decorating? Laundry?
Her next wise words were, "Keep your family fed and in clean clothes, then pick the things your family can do together and all the rest that you need to do will fall into place, thanks to God".
She is wiser than I knew.