Here it is Friday once again……the benediction of a week we have spent. Do your days and weeks, months fly by and you wonder where they went? What have you accomplished that will last, that will live after you are gone, that will make “you” feel better about “you.”

Time is a priceless commodity. We are each given the same measure every twenty four hours…..no more and no less. No matter how much some may deserve more than others, it doesn’t work that way…..we all get the same.

You can’t buy, bribe, steal or bring back time that is gone. It is gone forever. Will it be good to remember or something we can build tomorrow on? Gone is a scary word. Gone means it’s used up, not coming back, all over…….gone. Too late to wish it could be different…..it is gone.

People become foolish with time. Some realize it is fleeting and each day is worked in a frenzy because time is flying by. We will all be bankrupt when our time runs out and there will always be work left undone. Like the man who kept building bigger barns……eventually there is no more time.

Some are sluggards and live like they will be here forever. Every day they put off what should be done or contributions they could make because it can always be done tomorrow. Don’t get in a hurry, it’ll keep……and their sand runs out too.

All work and no play or all play and no work will never balance our gift. While we are here we are to respectfully obey whoever is in charge of us and be ready to give an account of our time. We didn’t set the rules into play that will judge us but we shall be judged, just the same.

John Wesley wrote some lines I like…….familiar to many of you.

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

Have a great weekend and we’ll see you on Monday.

Essentially Esther