Passing

As the month of November quickly moves on by I'm amazed at the passing of time. It seems as though one day we're saying "Wow - I can't believe it's November already" and the next we're nearly into December. Time really does fly by. I've always found it comforting, actually, when I've been in the worst places in my life to remind myself that time passes. I reminded myself in the final months of pregnancies, while waiting for surgery, while looking forward to chemo being done - many times in my life when I just wanted something to be over! And indeed, it did and does pass and those things that loomed so large in our future are suddenly memories fading into the past.

At my age, it seems especially poignant how quickly the calendar's pages turn. What seemed like so much time to look forward to when we got married suddenly looks preciously fragile. The fact that we wondered whether our toddlers would ever grow up and become independent is laughable now. Sometimes the biggest problem with youth is the constant need for things to happen faster when in reality the day will come when you just want to slow everything down.

The Bible says that life is a vapor - here one minute and gone the next. How true that is! A vapor so quickly passing and impossible to hang on to. You just so wish you could at least hit "pause" every so often to savor a special moment here and there. But I guess that's what our memories are for.