Of course, as you set that margin, you’ll also need to set the margin for going to bed. Set a margin for sleep, when it should end so you can spend time with God before you begin your day. Have you set margins in your day? Here’s a place to start. Matthew 16:21 (ESV) - 21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. John 4:4–5 (ESV) - 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Luke 6:12–13 (ESV) - 12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. Notice the Scriptures speak of Him arising early, actually from spending an entire night in prayer, stopping what He was going and going to a different location, and even the choices He made about the places He was headed. Unless you preset margins to allow for regrouping and refocusing on what is important, you’ll find those important things are left out of your day. Notice the description of what was going on when Jesus called them to come away and rest, “for many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.” Does that sound familiar? It’s easy to get caught up in the tyranny of the moment to the neglect of the important. ![]() Jesus’ disciples had just returned after being sent out on a gospel mission of spreading the word about the Kingdom of God. ![]() Mark 6:31 (ESV) - 31 And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. This also is vanity.ĭoes that sound familiar? Too many days are spent in such turmoil that extends into the late evening and even when nightly rest is no longer rest because the mind does not have a wind down time as too often the evening is spent with additional stimulation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. Stop the madness!Įcclesiastes 2:22–23 (ESV) - 22 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. What has happened to margins in life? We’ve decided we can’t afford to set them so a typical day can be described as a “blended mess,” where the flow of work and activities never ends and the list of things we say we hold dear is never touched. Today, in our individualized society, people come and go seemingly at will and often neglect taking a specific time for lunch or eat on the go. At one time in a factory centered society, you’d hear a whistle or bell go off which signaled lunch time or time to stop work and go home. What about your use of time? Do you set margins in your day that says, “you can’t touch this?” Whenever we have a presbytery meeting we set the “orders of the day” which means there is a specific time for lunch and that means when that time comes all debate stops and we go to lunch. We live on the edge but there is a boundary that we know when we’ve gone too far or in some cases the margins inhibit our going too far. Your word processor operates on margins, your phone texting has margins, even the road upon which you drive has margins. It can be difficult to "grab" sometimes so you may need to Zoom in to make it easier and lay off the coffee before-hand :-) If the "ruler" isn't visible, you can make it visible from the "View" tab - just put a check-mark next to "Ruler".We live with a set of margins every day. If your "ruler" is visible across the top and left side of the window, "grab" the the marker indicating where the applicable margin is and drag it to where you want it. You can also access "Page Setup" from the PRINT window when you're previewing your document. ![]() 3-On the "Margins" tab, manually change the (left) margins as necessary and make sure that "Apply to Whole document" is selected at the bottom. 2-Open "Page Setup" (there should be a small arrow to access these settings to the right of the words "Page Setup"). If not, here a couple of other options (I'm working from Word 2010 but other versions should be similar):ġ-Select the "Page Layout" tab across the top of the window. ![]() I'm not exactly sure where the problem exists but Danielle's response below should work.
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