As I write this, it’s past midnight and I’m waiting at a boarding gate for my delayed flight. A flight which I have done many times, gaining hours as I cross time zones and losing them as I cross back in the opposite direction. At least by the clock. I continue to be worn by the sands of time no matter what the clock says.
Combined with the universal parental experience of seeing my newborn child change by the day, I’m reminded of a saying, “The days are long but the years are short.”
Such is the transient nature of time, the transient nature of our existence.
Jeremiah 29:11
As we see the final days of this year slip by and look forward to the one to come, may we always be guided by He who both stands outside of time and who knows and gives us the time to come.
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.
Excerpt from God Knows by Minnie Louise Haskins
