Time Change

The borrowed hour must be given back Saturday night.  Officially at 2:00 AM clocks are to be turned to 3:00 AM.  The hour we gained four months ago must be given back. 

There will be no babies born between 2:01 and 2:59.  That hour does not exist.  If a child is born at 2:56 it is really 3:56.  Which is less of a problem than when we gain an hour.  

Time change is powerful.

Example: If a woman is delivering twins and the first baby comes at 1:32 and the second one is delivered at 2:06, time goes back at 2:00, so it is listed on the certificate as 1:06.  The second born is legally the first born (by the way - that happened in 2007).

Example: I always find it interesting that the Sunday that we lose and hour is one of the lowest attended Sundays of the year.  People go to bed at night intending to be in church in the morning, but… "We'll go next week." 

Time change isn't powerful enough. 

Example: If you're scheduled to do something you really don't want to do at 2:15, it still needs to be done even if there is no 2:15. 

Example: If you did something you shouldn't have done at 2:39, it is still done even if 2:39 was skipped.

It's powerful, but not that powerful.

I watched the end of basketball game the other day in which the last 3 minutes on the game clock took over 15 minutes to play!  That's confusing.  Time seems to slow to a snails pace during the movie The Notebook and it seems to match the speed of light when I'm laughing with friends. That's confusing too.

Time is powerful, but we forget Whose it is.  The truth is the movement of a clock has no inherent power.  It changes nothing.  Time is God's, it's not ours to manipulate.  We can talk about how we "waste" it or "save" it, but time is God's. I would be wise to ask him how to "live" it.

Live the time he gives you.

26,032,320 minutes into life,

Pastor Dave