The Titus 2 Homemaker

With the coming of Daylight Savings Time (yes, I know I’m a few days behind - I’ve been busy with groceries for the month!), “time” is something we find ourselves focusing on for a while. Random thoughts about time:

-The ancients used to measure time with the sun and the shadows it cast (sundials, and miscellaneous variations). Today, many of us carry clocks around on our wrists (or in our pockets). From a cheap dollar-store watch to a “luxury” one like a Patek Nautilus, they all keep time at a much lighter weight than a sundial!  Mine is actually a fairly cheap watch I got at Wal-Mart for - I forget how much; about $7.95, I think - but I really, really like it, and it has lasted me several years already.

-Many of us say that we wish we had more time, but we each have the same 24 hours every day. Some of us simply make better use of it than others.

-The supposed reason for Daylight Savings Time is energy savings. The news recently stated, however, that we use more energy during DST than we do the rest of the year. (Personally, I hope that means the government will decide to do away with it altogether. It can’t be healthy to play with our circadian rhythms like that. And it’s a safety hazard. The Monday after DST begins has one of the highest motor-accident rates of the year.)

-There are multiple songs with the them of “time.” A few lines that come to mind are, “Time is ticking away…” “In His time, in His time; He makes all things beautiful in His time…” and “To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”

-That, by the way, is from the Scripture. Ecclesiastes 3:1 -

“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to gain, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.

-Other quotes about time:

“There is always enough time to do the will of God.”
-Elisabeth Elliot

“When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
-Albert Einstein

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
-William Penn

“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
(Scottish proverb)

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
-Betty Smith

-The Bible says that to God, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day. It also says that each of our lives are like a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

-Finally, let me leave you with this thought, from Ephesians 5:11-16-

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.