Tag Archives: Time

Fast Time

    We used to live near a time zone border. Arranging a lunch date or making a doctor’s appointment, the question was “Fast time or slow time?” It was the only way to be sure what time.   When … Continue reading

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Such Time

  Today is Purim, the Jewish holiday celebrating the actions of Esther, who saved her people from Haman’s plan to kill all Jews (as recorded in the book of Esther).   Esther’s uncle asked her to risk all and step … Continue reading

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Lost Time

  Early Sunday morning, an hour disappeared. Daylight Savings Time snatched it away. How do you feel about that?   Never missed it I want it back! We lost an hour. Where’d it go? Should we look for it? Can … Continue reading

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Fruitful Times

Acts 14:17 (MEV) Yet He did not leave Himself without witness, for He did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying our hearts with food and gladness.   How many of us are quick to blame … Continue reading

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Times of Refreshing

Acts 3:19 (AMP) So repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins] and return [to God—seek His purpose for your life], so that your sins may be wiped away [blotted out, completely erased], so that times … Continue reading

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It’s about Time

My thoughts this week will be based on the Greek word kairos, sometimes translated “time.” It’s not so much an hour and minute, but a season, occasion or opportunity. It’s used in 86 different places in the New Testament, nine … Continue reading

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My Best Time

  Ephesians 5:15-16 (ESV) Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time.   Most of the time, procrastination isn’t my “best use of the time.”  It’s time for a … Continue reading

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Time to Forgive

Daylight Savings Time and St. Patrick’s Day, all in the same week.   Now is a good time to forgive. It will bring out the saint in you.       [As a teenager, Patrick was captured by Irish pirates … Continue reading

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Careful How You Wrap that Gift

Yesterday, I said time was a gift from God.   Lord, forgive me for wrapping your gift in the coarse paper of bitterness and anger. Teach me to keep it wrapped in the sparkle of love and the glitter of … Continue reading

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The Gift of Time

Genesis 1:14-19 (NIV) And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years” . . . … Continue reading

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