Just in case you were wondering, as of today, September 1, 2024, it is 61 days until Halloween, 89 days until Thanksgiving, 116 Days until Christmas, and 122 days until New Year’s Eve, just in case you were wondering. In between those days are birthdays and anniversaries, umpteen doctor and dentist appointments, which my wife and I like to call, “date days”, and then there are those days that we wonder “How in the world did we ever make it through”, days, but somehow, we did.
I remember back in my seminary days, coming home from the first day of classes and learning that in this course my grade was going to depend upon three tests and a final exam. In another class, I had two book reports and two exams. In the third class I only had a mid-term and a final exam. I came home pulling my hair out and complaining of how in the world I was ever going to get it all done, and still pass those classes! Then I was told, which seemed to soothe my soul, “Just take one day at a time, and you will do all right.”
Time is that elusive thing that we all have to deal with, but it’s the way that we mark our days, weeks, months, and years, and we can’t get away from it, at least not here on God’s green earth. Many years ago, my mother gave us kids, including all the cousins, nieces and nephews, a book of collections she had gathered over the years and recorded them in a book she entitled, “Mama Said It”. These were sayings that she had heard all her life while growing up. I’m sure that you heard them from your own mother as well. According to the subject of time, she wrote, “A year and a day, that’s all we get.” “There is no time like the present.” “The time to strike is when the iron is hot.” And here is one that you may or may not have heard, but so often is true; “Time may come, and time may go, but never so often as my trouble and woe.” Can I get an “Amen”?
