I've posted several times Les' theory of how time moves more swiftly as we get older. You can read all about it here. In a nutshell, time appears to move more quickly as we get older because a year becomes a smaller slice of our life.
Today is Pi Day - celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”)
is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio
of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is
approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math
enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends
about math, and to eat pie.
Today is also the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. Most of us had the "joy" of Springing Forward, meaning we lost an hour of sleep. Since the slices of my time pie continue to get smaller, I'm not thrilled with losing that bite! As one article stated, "Back then, somebody in the government thought it would be an awfully
good idea to give everybody jet lag … even though jets had not even been
invented yet." While I love the later sunsets, I miss the earlier sunrises!
Five years ago I posted something from a devotional 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!
The point of all this is simple - time is precious. We have a limited amount of time. Psalm 90:12 says, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible says, "Let us deeply consider our own frailty, and the shortness and uncertainty of life, that we may live for eternity, acquaint ourselves with thee and be at peace; that we may die in thy favor and live and reign with thee eternally."
I went searching for a quote to finish this post, it was written about my brother, Rod, in the school yearbook after he passed away. "It's not the years in the life that count, but the life in the years.
Rod was full of zeal for life and in the course of his life he gave us
laughter, faith, and encouragement." Rod lived a short 31 years, he would have turned 58 this month, but what he did with those 31 years was amazing. He made the years count.
I don't want to spend time worrying about an hour that was lost due to a time change. I want the hours I have to count.
