Time is Ticking

I am reading Mitch Albom's book "the time keeper".  I was intrigued by a question he posed which was basically try to imagine a life without measuring time.  So I asked this same question of my senior highs at prayer breakfast.  We all agreed it would be an enormous challenge because we are reminded of time by clocks on the wall, on our car dash, on signage,  and on our iPhones.   Even at church "we chime the hour"!

My favorite part of Albom's observation is that "man alone measures time".  For instance, birds don't care if they're late, dogs don't check their watches and a deer could care less about his birthday.  Human beings  are the ones living in fear of running out of time.

So we closed our time together at prayer breakfast by taking off our watches, promising not to be burdened by time this day and repeating this variation of scripture

                             This is the day the Lord has made

                              Let us rejoice and be glad in it, and

                              Live every minute!