We humans are an arrogant lot, aren’t we?
We act as if a clock or a calendar makes us kings over time and over our lives.
But we aren’t.
Every year when we (in America) move the clocks forward and backward I groan at the audacity of assuming our paltry attempts at manipulating “when” the sun sets and rises make any difference at all.
Time is in the hands of our Creator, not us.
Every spring and every fall we dutifully make the rounds to our clocks and digital devices, putting them first forward an hour and then back in an attempt to make the days “longer”.
As if time was in our hands.
The sun rises and sets according to the Creator’s schedule, we can neither speed the world’s turning, nor slow it down.
We can only choose whether to be present in the moments He grants us.
The day Dominic died settled firmly any ideas I may have had about time, or control, or knowing what the future holds. In one instant, a line was drawn across the years and they were divided into “before” and “after”. I couldn’t turn back the clock and gain even a single hour of the days or weeks or months before his accident.
Don’t waste the precious and irretrievable hours you are given-we are all just one breath away from eternity.
Clocks don’t determine the length and quality of my days–love, laughter and gentleness do.
None of us knows when our lives will end.
Because I have been forced to face the truth that time is in God’s hands-I choose to spend the time He gives me on things that matter, pouring into the lives of those around me and sharing what’s important with those I love.
So teach us to number our days
that we may gain a heart of wisdom
Psalm 90:12
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