The ticking clock...

The Ticking clock....

I have a cheap wall clock packed away in my aquacise equipment in the bedroom.   I bought it when we lived in an apartment while Don was undergoing radiation and chemo.  The pool in the residence hotel didn't have a clock and I wanted one to keep time while I exercised...it is still ticking , a daily reminder of times past...I hear it every day, tick, tick, tick....the batteries have not run down in the two years since I put them in...

At various times yesterday, the new year was welcomed at various parts of the world....at noon here, was midnight in Dubai, where they had a huge show for 6 minutes of 500,000 fireworks...working for a world record of fireworks,.....the Times Square ball, undulating with beautiful colors at midnight, falling to mark that new year in New York City, and finally, fireworks locally booming away around the midnight mark....

Time marches on.....as much as we want it to stop it sometimes and hold on to those precious moments, it still moves forward....our children grow up, we grow older, our parents grow older....we lose loved ones, friends, acquaintances...we gain others.....as the clock ticks away....

The beauty of yesterday, today and tomorrow....waiting to be enjoyed at the moment , held as a treasure as the clock continually ticks away....thankfulness , gratitude, blessing held lightly and fleetingly...for all time...as that clock ticks away ....

Only God holds time...ours is not His,  and we have only a concept of what eternity is...and now no reality of that concept....we step there when our earthly clock stops ticking and we become part of that eternity that we strive for, ask for in the gift of salvation....

So we enjoy the moments, the times, the hours, days, years we have...listening to the ticking clock....the fireworks, the ball dropping...the toasts...the time that God grants us.....but looking forward to our new home when that is prepared .....not morbidly,...but at the right time....

Thank YOU, that you grant us joys, times, here as a preparation for the eternity that is to come at the end of our earthly ticking clock.....help me to look at each new day as a gift of time to be used wisely .....holding lightly and preciously...


Books, the Ultimate  gift and the Ultimate life... thought provoking ideas..

Genesis 1:14
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,

1 Chronicles 18:1a
In the course of time,.....

Psalm 31:15a
My times are in your hands; .....

Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

2 Peter 3:8
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.