A Lesson Learned: by Robin Thomas
One of the great joys in life is meeting friends for coffee. I had one such meeting with a friend at Peet’s at 9am. I got up at 7:30am, had my coffee before the coffee date, did my Bible App, shower etc. I looked at the clock at 8:42am, just enough time. The next time I looked at the clock it was 9:05am and I hadn’t even left for my 9am coffee date. Where did the time go? It must have gotten sucked into the black hole or into the void where those unmatched socks go, because I lost those 23 minutes somewhere.
The Bible says, “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—” Ecclesiastes 3:1
The Beatles song says, “There is a season, turn, turn, turn…”
“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.” William Carlos Williams
“Time is really the only capital that any human has and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. -Albert Einstein
Time matters. How do you spend your time?
Time is not always quantitative. A five minute conversation with a grandparent or a friend can last you a lifetime.
Time is not always linear, in the sense that we move forward, but we reflect back.
Are your reflections more good or bad? Do you get stuck in the past?
Time is relative. How many times has a minute seemed like an hour and an hour like a minute?
Time does not discriminate by race, gender, sexual orientation, socio economic status, or ability. Our time will someday run out.
If your time ran out in 5 minutes from now what would you have left on the table?
Time is free, but it's priceless
You can't own it, but you can use it.
You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
-Harvey Mackay
I recently watched the TV series, The Chosen, (which I highly recommend, VidAngel, Youtube) a story about the early years of Jesus ministry.
Jesus said to Matthew, the tax collector, “Follow Me” and He did. He left his job, his house, his life and considerable resources to follow Jesus on the road in his ministry. Matthew, in this series, was portrayed as a man that probably had Asperger’s syndrome. He was exceptionally good with numbers, very detail oriented, and socially awkward, but he met Jesus and that was all that mattered.
Would I be able to do the same?
In the gospel of Matthew (chapter 24) Jesus talks about the things that will come; wars, earthquakes, pestilence, nation against nation etc., but then he talks about the end of the world as we know it and he says:
“Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.
However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.” Matthew 24:35-36
When people find out they only have a short time to live they tend to do the things they have been putting off. The end of the world could be tomorrow, a week from now or in 1000 years.
Now, what do you have time for?
I made it to my coffee date about 15 minutes late. We talked, and an hour seemed like a minute.
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