Loosing Time...

On this side of the pond yesterday, we turned forward the clock. "Spring forward" means most of us lost an hour sleep. But I've just lost three hours instead of one! You see, as I'm driving east from Colorado towards Michigan, in addition to the time change I also crossed two time zones, much the same way as I did travelling west a few weeks earlier. Of course travelling west I gained 2 hours...

As we travel, I realize timing and direction has a big effect our gaining or loosing time. Of course travelling always in one direction will never add up to more time in the end. But isn't this what we sometimes try to do in our lives? We speed in a specific direction hoping do more and in a way "gain time"... But in all this don't we eventually just end up just loosing the time we've "gained", sometimes loosing even more than we expect. .

Ecclesiastes tells us, “There is a time for everything . . . ” And do we understand the "season" and "reason" for all we do. Ever thought why are we do the things we do? Is there a destination? a purpose? How quickly do we need to get there? As we hurry, could we miss a turn or perhaps even get the direction wrong? Perhaps taking more time we can find the deeper meaning for our lives, rather than speeding and chasing after the wind...

What does man gain from all his labour at which he toils under the sun?
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains for ever.
The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which one can say, Look! This is something new? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.

I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men!
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:3-14