So What Time Is It?

This weekend was the conclusion of another round of Daylight Saving Time. I am not sure where the time was saved because I am still behind on several projects. I was told that this time change enabled me to regain the hour of sleep I lost in the spring. However, I know that I have lost more than one hour's sleep over the last month and a lot more since last spring. Just last week I lost several hours watching the 18 inning World Series baseball game - when do I get those hours back?

I am at a loss as to what time it is today. The battery in my watch died. Apparently there is a run on watch batteries at the jewelers right now. My watch is there in line waiting its turn for a new power supply so my wrist is bare. No wonder I don't know the time. Why don't I have a back up watch? I do, but the battery on it is dead also. I used to have a watch that you could wind and it didn't require a battery, but I think the band broke.

My maternal grandmother was born in 1897. She and my grandfather were farmers. She knew when it was time to gather the eggs, feed the chickens, churn butter, and cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She washed clothes on Monday and ironed on Tuesday. When Daylight Saving Time began, she wanted to know who had the nerve to mess with God's time. She did change the clocks except for one. She kept one set on God's time so she would know what the real time was.

Before many weeks pass, we will get up in the mornings in the dark and come home from work in the evenings in the dark. So what are we saving the daylight for again? Of course this doesn't apply to me because I am retired. However, I still wonder where the daylight is stored in this savings account.

When I was a child and we got our first television, at a certain time of day I knew what time it was. The television was turned on and a man dressed in some western-looking clothes would shout - "Hey kids, what time is it?" And all of us kids would yell back "It is Howdy Dowdy Time." Although that show is no longer on, I still have a guideline for knowing the time. My wife said that since Daylight Saving Time ended this weekend, it is time to change the batteries in the smoke detectors. I liked Howdy Dowdy Time better.

In the Bible the writer of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse one wrote: "For everything there is a season, and a time for everything under heaven." The writer then gave several examples of how time flows in our lives beginning with a time to be born and a time to die. The question that I am faced with is whether I am doing the things God wants me to do or am I wasting some time with things He tells me not to do? Ultimately, my grandmother was right. All time is God's time. He is the creator of time and the One who has entrusted it to us to use wisely. So how will you and I use the time given to us this week to honor God and live in obedience to Him?

I know this article contains a lot of random thoughts. I don't apologize for that, but I still wonder what is being done with all the daylight that we have been saving.