Time Decides

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. 

But that is not for them to decide. 

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” J.R.R. Tolkien

“Who are you?" the little boy asked the voice.
"I am time," the voice replied.
"Who is time?" he curiously inquired.
I am the present which comes to bless you.
I am the future which comes to reward you.”
- Matshona Dhliwayo

 “Time decides”

As babes we have so little cares

As children we take steps & dares

As teens we individuate

Thinking we control our fate ;~)

As adults, choices fly like darts

We often act without our hearts

At times not THINK or reason with our head

At times .. consequences follow that we dread

At times it’s hard to STOP & think things through

One day we look back .. those decisions to rue

How often we feel rushed through life

We deal with struggles, pain & STRIFE

We wish we’d paused .. to THINK .. to know

Even better .. to LEARN and to GROW

In truth, we harvest what we sow

Time goes by and time won’t slow

And years will fly and years will go

Beauty and memories in TIME will fade

Even though we wish they had stayed

We can’t halt time but we can “seize the day”

Don’t allow REGRET to stand in your way
 

 In our LIFE-journey ..

GRACE & Peace are always near

But if our focus is wrong .. so is FEAR

“Fix your eyes” not on the temporary but on “what is unseen”

Our time on earth is leading us into eternity. Savor each day between

 Time that was WASTED .. is time misspent

Will regret & tears help us repent?

LOVE & Grace we don’t want to lose

But should we ignore or fail to choose

.. Time decides ..

“In our end is our beginning;
in our time, infinity;
In our doubt there is believing;
in our life, eternity,
In our death, a resurrection;
at the last, a victory,
Unrevealed until its season,
Something God alone can see.”

- Hymn of promise

“Time is the most important thing” - Mark Kageyama (a stage 4 cancer patient, with prostate, bone, and lung cancer)

“Cancer helped to cure my blindness”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6DzmVq26kE

"The time will come when temporal shall cease.
This time revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, nor winter freeze;
Everything shall be to come … all that’s past is past,
A new age … an eternal now shall ever last." - Petrarch

September 23rd 2020

In honor of the One Who holds our days & times in His able Hands.

This added and special mention to John Rylance for this rich comment:

“Our lifetime is a continuum of time, in which our lifespan has three parts: our past which increases in timespan, our future which has an unknown timescale. We know how long our past is, but never the extent of our future. The present is the stepping stones between past and present.” ~ John Rylance

T S Elliot writes in Burnt Norton.
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable”

“In His Light” … I write ;~)

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