Here’s Your History in One Picture and Ten Words
5 ways to make your remaining days count more.
Yes, I promised to tell you this brief story of my (and your) life in a picture and ten words. You can jump to the picture at the end to grab it right away. But, you will miss the “how I’m learning to ensure my remaining days count more” part. Less impatient souls, please read on.
You see, time isn’t going anywhere. We’re the ones passing away — fast.
It was on one of those days back when my now adult son was still in the kindergarten. That morning, we were all set for church and for our Sunday worship service. We were all heading out of the house. But, our young man was insistent on delaying all of us some few more minutes with his endless antics.
Prodding him to speed up, his mum’s voice rang out, “Bobby, we don’t want to get late to the church today.” The young man replied in a voice such as was typical for a man of his age. Nonplussed, he pointed at the wall clock as he quipped “Time is not going anywhere, time is still hanging on the wall there.”
These days, we smile as we recall that comical but true clip.