top of the lungs, hallelujah.

i love mat kearney's music. 

for real, if you haven't listened to all of his albums, you most likely have a large gaping hole in your life. i mean, Jesus fills the main holes...but this is probably another pretty seriously sized one.

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here is a riddle for you.

"Sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls, but it always passes inexorably. 

We mark it, save it, waste it, bide it, race against it. 

We measure it incessantly, with a passion for precision that borders on the obsessive."

today i have been thinking about that idea.

time.

get it?

how much time has to pass before something can be laughed about?

why does time go slower the more you want something to happen?

and go so much faster when you just wish it would slow down?

why can time heal some wounds, but not all?

one of the greatest lessons i have learned as a follower of Christ, is to stop yearning for a perfect life. to rest simply in the truth that it will be a tough go until i die and join the King. by fully grasping this, i have found full rest in the promise of Heaven.

think about it - it is the greatest gift!

nothing can be wasted, messed up or thrown away any faster than God can forgive it. 

thought something nasty about the person sitting next to you - oh dang, Jesus already died for that.

messed up at work and dropped the ball - it's been died for.

spoke a really crappy thing to a dear loved one? - apologize, but then forget about it because Jesus died so that you would not be able to wallow in your guilt, shame or screw ups. 

so stop doing it!

so how does that have anything to do with time?

well - first of all, i am a woman, therefore my string of thoughts don't have to make sense.

but, duh, they always do.

but secondly - time? STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT!

use it, yes.

do with it anything you will!

but stop thinking for one second that you have any kind of control over it. 

as soon as you give up that very notion - you can rest more fully in the fact that one person alone knows the time of all things and one person alone died so that you would relax. 

jesus says relax.

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and now a couple of jokes about time - 

I was going to look for my missing watch, but I could never find the time.

Why did the clock in the cafeteria run slow?
(It always went back four seconds!)

I asked my boss if I could leave half an hour early the other day.

He said, "Only if you make up the time."

I said, "OK. It's 35 past 50."