From everlasting to everlasting...

It is nearing that time when tomorrow becomes today and today turns into yesterday. The night is completely still. No cheerful rain falls musically on the rooftop, no playful wind dances with the bare branches of the trees. The darkness of the sky is only softened by the thin line of a gently glowing moon and the dazzling glimmer of a million stars. Yet through the infallible stillness of the night, something is moving. The sweet melody of an unseen stream is trickling in the night air, the sound of it's music ringing clear and bold through the attentive silence around it. The seemingly perfect tranquility of the night is unable to mask the constant progression of time.

Time is flowing away in an unceasing river, sweeping away old dreams and delivering new ones, soothing heart-aches and enhancing good times, bringing new sorrows and new joys. It pauses for no one, does not heed the cries of those calling for haste or for leisure. Time is priceless and cannot be bought or sold- we have what we are given of it and can do nothing to change the amount.

There are so many vain pursuits, so many roads that lead to nowhere. So often we get caught up in wasting time, wishing for it to go faster, and forget to realize that the moment we are living in now could be one of our last. Why do we waste our most valuable gift so freely? How can we make each precious moment count?... By investing it in the one thing that never changes and is not affected by time. By taking every opportunity to glorify God, so that we may enjoy Him forever-- a forever that breaks the bounds of time, and spans from everlasting to everlasting...