Time Flies

It's a scary thought to think of the last time I wrote here. Yet, what has been on the tip of my fingertips over the past month is about this very subject - TIME ! And it flew so fast that I hadn't had enough of it to write about it!

"If I could turn back time..." (the words of a popular song)

"Stop the world, I want to get off." (I think from another song)

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever." (Horace Mann, "The Father of Education")

"The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a man." (story of Joshua and the Israelites fighting the Amorites, Joshua 10:13-14)

In the past two months, these phrases have been very much in the forefront of my mind. How much I wanted to turn back the clock 10 min so that I could make it to my appointment on time. How much I wanted to stop the crazy whirlwind of my life to just take time to walk in the fallen leaves and to catch my breath. How much I wanted those two hours that I slept past my alarm. How much I had hoped God would listen to me and hold the sun still for a day so that I could get caught up.

Never before has time seemed to go so fast. "Wait." I screamed as summer drew to its close and I wanted that one last walk by the creek. "Wait." I screamed as classes began signalling another year towards the end of my degree. "Wait." I screamed as the leaves changed color and fell off the trees. "Wait." I screamed as I heard Christmas songs being played the day after Halloween.

Why now, does time seem to be going so fast? Is it because there are more grey hairs on my head? Is it because I have allowed myself to be so consumed with things I think I have to do? Is it that the world is spinning faster - maybe due to global warming? Is it because I realize certain things which are so precious seem to be slipping away? Is it because I have taken on more than I can handle?

I apologize for ending this now - I have once again ran out of time - and I have not yet figured out where it all went to and why it flies so fast! And I even had an extra hour today as we turned back the clocks!