Well, Where did the time go?

She said time is fleeting looking at how grown her young girl is. It is surely amazingly beautiful knowing that this little being came from her. What is also fascinating is how fast the girl is growing proving two things, nature is just natural and time is just the little moments that go unnoticed.

Ever thought it yourself, Where did the time go?

From the last photo you took of yourself to the current one, how different do they look?

Well, how could change be so unnoticeable yet so noticeable in the long run? 

Maybe it is more challenging to notice change when we love (things). When we grow unto them, we hold them dearly not seeing anything different until we observe better.

Like an old book read years ago, though containing the same content, still impacting life the same, still, there is a difference all about how it looks, smells and even the condition of its pages.

I think it’s the same with us and those we love when we only focus on loving them dearly, seeing no change. I think critical or rather deep observations like the one my friend did before are important. Like David who asked to be taught to understand the times and thus know the number of days we have.

It was not about knowing or feeling how a few days are, but to be able to notice change and know that we are here but only for a time. And that, the time we have here, together is surely beautiful if we choose to live, see and feel beyond the strive and surviving we do.

So, find a moment every day. I would say every minute of the life we live, but being in survival mode all life, won’t change just at a finger snap. It is something we can all work and cultivate and appreciate how beautiful life is with, upon together and with those we live with and love.

Elijah, He Who Prayed

Like a farmer who observes daily how the crops are going on his farm, knowing the times isn’t about timing, it is about flowing with it and mature with it. Like Elijah, asking his servant to go check if there is anything in the sky that will signify the opening of the heavens after those three and a half years of drought. He, Elijah, knew it was time. It was an agreement and a promise so, he was sure with everything that it was time.

Seven times, it took seven times to see a cloud like a human hand coming from the sea… that little, man-like hand cloud was everything to show Elijah that it was time that the heavens opened and the promise fulfilled. And just like that, he prepared and warned the King as well to run back into the city for shelter.

Read 1 Kings 18:41-45

⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” 
⁴² So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.
⁴³ “Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
“There is nothing there,” he said.
Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
⁴⁴ The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”
So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
⁴⁵ Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.

We don’t want to wake up one day, eyes opened with no strength left in the body to live to wonder how short life was while it wasn’t.

Karah ^ ^

A Farmer’s Observation

So just like that, a farmer knows one thing, once the ground breaks and the seeds sprout, work has just begun. Following are moments of everything until harvest. All these moments are by a daily or weekly farm inspection. One surely doesn’t want to return to empty ground after so much work of planting because of neglect.

We don’t want that either. We don’t want to wake up one day, eyes opened with no strength left in the body to live to wonder how short life was while it wasn’t.

Jesus says, Say not yet, There are four months and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (John 4:35)

Only a farmer observing time knows when the time is and when crops are ready. Like the LORD observing each one of us daily, no matter how unprepared we are, know that when the time is, we go, no bargain. But we just pray for the grace. Grace to live better. To live a more engaging life with those around and close to us with the numbered days we have.

Observe these times in Time

Imagine from the first cry, first step, first word, first letter, first love (hopefully last), first child, grandchild etc. Life is not short. It just flows best with us when we know and do better taking each breath, second and heartbeat not for granted.

Like a metered LUKU for water electricity or simply gasoline. You don’t want to wake up one morning late for work, there is no water, no power and no gasoline. All, just because you were not checking, or inspecting, daily.

What to do if that vehicle stops in the middle of nowhere? And that, just because you were so sure there was gas. But you did not realise that your assurance was not in the reality of things. Observe your life, observe your body. Because like that vehicle, it matures, tires and eventually ceases. Not in a second thought or year, but in every breath we take and every heartbeat our bodies experience. So much going on with life and the body, amazing work, the human body is!

Observing Your Moments in this Time

Time is about time. Man-made a clock with a second, minute and hour hands. But firstly God made the heart that beats and lungs that take air in and out. And whatever way you choose to focus, may what you see as well in nature, the change in seasons, falling of leaves, clouds cover, first rains and first snowdrops remind you of time.

May the moments of our lives be lived in appreciation of all the moments we live, the people we meet, and the things we do, may all remind us how life is lived and how fleeting the time we have here is.

And with that, may faith and hope for His promise, His coming be anchored in us not of fear but of joy. That even when everything passes, we know we can count on Him for the life here that we can live peacefully and that to come, hopeful. Observe these times!

I wish you the best moments of life, observations, love and living. Living knowing it is okay to live off the surviving mode. So many struggles, and so many fights but most of it, is (failing to) see the good that is still here. His goodness, mercy, grace and beauty that creation, yourself included (and may be above every other creature). How magnificent LIFE Himself is, flowing in everything.