January 2015
Tempus Fugit
01 01 15 15:14 Filed in: My Life
Happy new year.
2014 is over. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether that’s good news or not. For our part we’ve been thanking God as we remember the blessings and recall God’s work amid the challenges. And we’ve been wondering again where the time has gone.
After I retired I started telling people that I no longer lived by the clock. Such an attitude sometimes frustrates other people who don’t seem to understand when my answer to their “What time is it?” question is Thursday. There is, however, some blessed freedom in not being tied to the minute. I can remember with nostalgia a classroom bell ringing at 11:18 or some other equally odd time, but I have no longing to return to that kind of slavery.
I am, however, ready to embrace the clock again. It is not that I am repenting of my relaxed approach to time; it is rather that I now own a clock (thank you, Suzanne) that reflects my retirement values. I like this clock. I might like it even better if it showed months instead of days, but I can live with it. So today it’s Thursday; happy new year.
2014 is over. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether that’s good news or not. For our part we’ve been thanking God as we remember the blessings and recall God’s work amid the challenges. And we’ve been wondering again where the time has gone.
After I retired I started telling people that I no longer lived by the clock. Such an attitude sometimes frustrates other people who don’t seem to understand when my answer to their “What time is it?” question is Thursday. There is, however, some blessed freedom in not being tied to the minute. I can remember with nostalgia a classroom bell ringing at 11:18 or some other equally odd time, but I have no longing to return to that kind of slavery.
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