One extra hour – wow, what a gift!
Unasked for but it has a no return policy. So, how did you use this gift? It must be used or lost forever, and yes, I’m talking about our return to standard time.
There are so many possibilities: I chose to stay up the extra hour in order to watch the baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets. I was well rewarded as the Royals turned the game around in the eighth inning, winning 5 to 3! An obvious choice is claiming an extra hour of sleep and letting the transfer happen as we dream away – totally oblivious to what is happening. Perhaps you partied an extra hour celebrating Halloween! You may have spent it in prayer for many needs, or in prayer giving thanks for gifts received. Some may have been totally oblivious because they went to bed at their usual body time and when they awoke in bright daylight, would’ve been startled believing they had slept in or missed the alarm…
So you see nothing is as simple as it first seems: however, one fact that is true is that so called ‘extra hour’ is now history.
When daylight saving rolls around just the opposite effect will be in place; we will be losing a precious hour. How will we make up for it? Really, our God has a subtle but humorous wit and we fall for it every time.
“For all things give thanks to God, because this is what God expects of you in Jesus Christ.” (Thess 5)
Tick-toc, tick-toc!
Barbara Vaughan, CSJ