Daylight saving already.
Where has the time gone?
School holidays - then the final term and exams. Soon we'll be counting down to Christmas.
Time passes so quickly, so it is really important that we make good use of the time we have. We get plenty of advice on that ...
- In The Sound and the Fury Nobel laureate William Faulkner wrote of a father's wisdom: "Clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
- There is a little saying that we often hear at funerals: It's not the years in your life that matters; it's the life in your years!
- The Scots have a saying that I seem to remember from one of the Wisdom books in the Jewish bible too: be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
- As a teacher I remember hearing (and saying too) "last week of term" with a real sense of relief. Each time I heard myself say it, I tried to moderate the comment with another one from my childhood: "Stop wishing your life away!"
Procrastination is a very human thing: we all (to some degree) put off the hard things, or the unpleasant things, or the repetitive things. We are all aware (to some extent) that we are putting our lives on hold.
We all have times when we are too tired, or too unmotivated to "do" something - and we allow the tv, or the internet, or the pub, or going to the mall, or some other time-filler, take some of the time we have available in our lives.
Jesus' advice was to be childlike in our attitude to life - see the newness and wonder all around us - be part of it - live life! seize the day!
Creator God, we pray that each of us learns to see you in the sunlight on new foliage, the laughter of babies, the sudden flight of birds, the perfect moment of dance (or of a planned move), in the wonder-filled and surprising instants of your creation, and in the smile of a stranger.
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