TIME FLIES OR DOES IT?

TIME FLIES OR DOES IT?

   Do you remember as a child saying; "I wish Christmas would get here." Perhaps you expressed the sentiment; "I wish summer vacation would come." Maybe you were anxious for the arrival of your birthday; "I wish my birthday was tomorrow." What we are really expressing in all three requests is the frustration that time is passing ever so slowly. Sometimes we use to say, "I'm bored there is nothing to do I wish it was tomorrow!" One thing I remember growing up (among many other things of course) was that we never said to our mom, "I'm bored there is nothing to do." If we ever said that in hearing distance of our mom she always had a standard reply; "There is a big woodpile in the back yard that has to go into the basement before winter." Time always seems to pass quickly when you are busy doing something. On the other hand time seems to drag by when we are sitting down twiddling our thumbs. The reality is that the passing of time never changes. It takes as long for an hour, a day, a month or a year to go by when we were 12 years old as it does when we are in our retirement years.
   One of the big reasons that women dread the retirement of their husband is that with nothing to do he will forever be in the house following her around asking endless questions. "What are you doing?" Can I help?" "Is there anything you would like me to do?" "What's for dinner?" She is bombarded with so many questions that she can't get her work done! So what is the solution for the couple when the husband is about to retire? "Guys, we have to keep busy." If  we don't keep busy doing something when we retire than we will find ourselves as frustrated as we were when we were 12 years old complaining that we were bored. Perhaps the ideal solution would be to get rid of oil, gas and electric heat and go back to wood stoves and coal furnaces. Why is this the ideal solution? When we are bored and following our wife around the house she could always turn to us and say; "Dear! there is a big woodpile in the backyard that needs to go into the basement before winter." Think of how busy we will keep ourselves by stacking wood, splitting kindling, stocking the furnace and carrying out the ashes!
Have a great day!
Your friend Pastor John