Old? What is Old?

It rains so much in Dunoon, Scotland, that the shopping carts at the grocery store are rusty. Extremely rusty. All of them.

The shoes in my closet are walked down to the heel. Totally. Both of them.

My favorite clothes resemble rejects from homeless camps. No, actually, they look like the youth fashions sold in prestigious clothing stores—except they achieved that worn-torn look honestly.

Regardless of the fact that I hate cold weather, the trees are turning fall colors. I can’t stop them. Nor can I stop the cold that will follow.

We humans believe we can manage time wisely. Most folks work five days a week and have the weekend to rest and attend church. Most have events and occasions marked on calendars and maintain a schedule. We even believe we can manufacture more time by moving the clocks back in the fall and forward in the spring…and yet…it is merely the numbers on clock faces that change. Time never changes.

Time is an unbroken line stretching from eternity to eternity. Time is the equator—an imaginary line circling the earth from east to west and west to east endlessly.

But as for me, I trust You, O LORD, I say, “You are my God.” Psalm 31:14.

As a Christian, I am thankful to possess the wisdom that God, and God alone, holds the time of our lives. Ecclesiastes says that God has made everything beautiful in its time and put eternity into our hearts.

On this earth, we will age. We will grow older. Things will wear out. They will break. But none of that matters. With the power of Jesus in our lives, we are not contained within the confines of this world. We have eternity in our hearts.

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8 thoughts on “Old? What is Old?”

  2. The rain in Scotland sounds like the rain in the Pacific Northwest.
    We can’t stop time or save it up. The clock just keeps ticking. Thank God that He is in control and we can trust Him completely, even as we are breaking down. God bless you, Stephanie! Stay dry.

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  3. What a beautiful way to put it, Steph. And you are so right. Those of us who are saved are not bound by time. We have eternity with our Lord to look forward to. The trick is to enjoy everything we can of what God’s given us in this world in the meantime. We have the end of the seasons where things die, but they turn such beautiful colors in doing so. We have the rain that dampens everything, but produces such beautiful flowers and trees. We just have to look at the bright side of things. Which I fully admit, isn’t always an easy thing to do, but we can if we try hard enough.

    God has given us so much. And I’m happy that he’s given me you as a friend, Steph. God bless you, Alan, and Savannah. We love you.

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