Your calendar is a theological document. It reveals what you actually worship.

He printed out last month's calendar and spent twenty minutes looking at it honestly.

The stated priorities were clear: family, faith, key leadership responsibilities, strategic growth. He'd said those things in his annual review. He believed them.

The calendar told a different story. Meetings that could have been emails. Obligations that had accumulated without evaluation. Reactive time that had swallowed the proactive kind.

His highest priorities were represented. Just not proportionally.

Ephesians 5:15-16 is urgent — "be very careful how you live." Not casually attentive. Very careful. The implication is that time can be lost, wasted, or misused in ways that matter for eternity.

Most professionals manage money carefully and time carelessly. Which is a strange inversion, given that you can make more money but you cannot make more time.

He made two changes: one standing block each week for the work only he could do, and one standing conversation with the person on his team most in need of development. Small adjustments. But his calendar started reflecting what he actually valued.

You manage what you measure. And you can't steward time you've never looked at honestly.

Print or review last week's calendar. Ask honestly: does it reflect my actual priorities? Identify one thing to remove and one thing to protect. Make both changes this week.

Father, help me steward time with the same intentionality I'd give to any resource You've entrusted to me. Redeem the hours. Make my calendar reflect what I say I believe.

In Jesus' name, Amen.