To Everything -- Turn, Turn, Turn

1 There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. 5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. 6 A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak. 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace...11 He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men's ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done. --Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 11

I believe that it is time...

Time: A Measure of Change

The first decade of the 3rd millenium has passed in the blink of an eye. If it seemed to have gone quickly then you were there. I'm trying to fathom what it feels like to be 2,010 years removed from the time of Christ. Time has passed slowly since that time and a lot of world history has happened since then. Yet, I can't help but realize what a small number of years it has been in the scope of things.

Think about eternity. Don't try too hard, it will hurt your brain. Ten years ago it was 2000. Ten years before that 1990. Ten years before that I wasn't even born yet. But it wasn't that long ago! Christ was little over the mark of 3 decades when he died. How quickly it must have seemed to Him, His mother and now, in retrospect, to us.

Yet in the time that he was here, he accomplished all that he was supposed to and changed history forever. What can we do here and now, in our time, however long it might be, to change the world forever and leave it a better place? Leave it a little closer to what it's supposed to become?