In 1990, Helen Young and I collaborated on a book called Time Management for Christian Women. In it, we talked about what time is and how to make good use of it.
This year, my daughter is pregnant with our first grandchild. It gives me a whole new sense of time. Our family history won’t end with our children. I plan to slow down and enjoy each stage of growth. I plan to take time for the important things in life--tracing the path of an ant, savoring the colors of a sunset, giggling over nothing.
Even though our clocks mark time with a mechanical precision, we all know how relative time can be. The long wait for Christmas when we were children, the fevered pace of life when we’re older. And now, nearer the end of my time, I find that it fairly races by. It hardly seems fair, with little left, that what there is passes so swiftly.
I hope you enjoy this month’s look at time--starting with a history of clocks, called “Marking Time”; a study of “Time in Scripture”, and a feature story about my co-author of the Time Management book, “Helen Young--Taking Time for the Important,” the story of a woman whose wise use of her time has blessed thousands.
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