Manson's Memo 1/24

I heard an interesting fact a while back. Someone was talking about time. They noted that any period of time has a beginning and an end. A year goes from January 1 to December 31. A day goes from midnight to midnight. No matter how small you break down time it always has a beginning and an end.

Even something as small as a nanosecond (1/1,000,000,000 second). A way of noting the beginning and end of that time is to think about light. Light travels very fast – more than 186,000 miles per second. A nanosecond is approximately the time it takes for light to travel one foot. (This newsletter is on 14� long paper – a bit more than a light-nanosecond.) If you were to slow down time sufficiently, you could see that nanosecond as light traveled 1 foot.

Our days and our lives flow on, as time, from beginning to end. But it’s not just a beginning at birth. Each day, we start something new. God gives us many beginnings as we go through our lives. Some of them we mark as special – new families when we marry or have children, new jobs, new homes. But there are many more ways we find newness. God gives us new life – and new beginnings – whenever we come to God in faith seeking grace.

Our lives are made up of nanoseconds and decades. Even more, our lives are made up of all the new beginnings which God has given to us. Let us always be grateful for the gifts of life and time. May each nanosecond, and each hour, and each day, and each year, be a reminder to us of God’s grace.

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