Tick Tock

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 – it’s always running out for someone.

My assistants and I regularly talk about time.

We plan with exactness each 6-week transfer, 42 days to be precise.

Often, we specify minutes for planned events.

Growing older, my notion of time is that it goes faster and faster.

In the mission, there is always someone running out of time.

It focuses minds on the present.

How a watch measures time and how we as humans perceive it, are seemingly quite different.

Our ancestors measured time in days, weeks, months, seasons, and years.

Unlike our ancestors, our measurement of time is different.

Today, we measure time in milliseconds, seconds, minutes, and hours.

Blink, and weeks have gone.

I love these words penned by Robert Baird.

“Time flies on wings of lightning;

We cannot call it back.

It comes, then passes forward

Along its onward track.

And if we are not mindful,

The chance will fade away,

For life is quick in passing.

’Tis as a single day.”

(“Improve the Shining Moments,” Hymns, no. 226)

Time is lightning paced.

Each of us are stewards of our time.

Each day counts.

Commenting on world conditions this week UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “Our world is becoming unhinged.”

In 2019, President Russell M. Nelson said, “I plead with you who have distanced yourselves from the Church and with you who have not yet really sought to know that the Saviour’s Church has been restored. Do the spiritual work to find out for yourselves, and please do it 𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕.”

It’s never too early or never too late to learn about Jesus Christ.

Take time today and speak to a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

It’ll be the best time you spend today.

Are you doing everything that you should be doing with your one precious life?