I realize for many this weekend was a bit painful ~ Daylight Saving Time began. The dreadful "Spring Forward" when you lose an hour of sleep on Sunday. We didn't have to change a thing here in Hawaii! My devotional the other morning included a short story about time:
We're like the fellow on the bus who refused to tell another passenger what time it was. After being asked several times, he turned his back, and the young man went on and asked someone else. At the next stop, someone who had seen the exchange scolded the man, and this was his rationale: "If I had told that young man what time it was, we would have struck up a conversation, and I probably would have liked him. Before long, he would have gotten himself invited to supper, and my beautiful daughter would have met him. The two of them would probably fall in love, and want to get married - but I don't want my daughter marrying a man who can't afford a watch!"
The point of the devotion was getting involved, but it struck me as funny that the man went from "what time is it?" to "May I marry your daughter?" without even knowing the fellow passenger's name! There are so many things wrong with this man's thinking. Perhaps the young man's watch was in the repair shop. Perhaps he had a girlfriend, or was even married. You can't judge a book by its cover and you certainly can't judge someone based on whether they have a watch or not!
If I've learned anything while being around so many homeless in Waikiki, it is there are rich hearts under poor coats. Sadly, there are also poor hearts under rich coats.
P.S. We are now three hours behind our friends and family California (instead of two) and five hours behind Tennessee and elsewhere. So if you send me a text or email early in the morning I'm not ignoring you, I'm probably still asleep! I'll do my best to respond before you go to bed...
