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When as a child, I laughed and wept, Time crept; When as a youth, I dreamed and talked, Time walked; When I became a full grown man, Time ran; When older still I daily grew, Time flew; Soon I shall find in traveling on, Time gone. —Author unknown[1] [1]J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible commentary [computer…

Pope Francis called on the world’s Catholics to make better use of their time. His challenge to the faithful was to “give up insulting people on social media for Lent and pray instead of wasting time with ‘useless words, gossip, rumors, tittle-tattle.’” The Week, March 6, 2020 p. 6 The rest of us could…

The amount of freedom current technology allows with phones is astounding. In fact, some statistics show that people only use our smartphones to talk with others by voice 22% of the total time they spend on the devices. The same research shows that users spend almost 5 hours per day on their Smartphone,…

Writing to business executives, Peter Drucker says, “. . . only constant efforts at managing time can prevent drifting [into wasting time]. Systematic time management is therefore the next step. One has to find the nonproductive, time-wasting activities and get rid of them if one possibly can” —Jim L.…

Writing to business executives, Peter Drucker says, “. . . one cannot rent, hire, buy, or otherwise obtain more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. . . . Moreover, time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is…

“As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it, and your income fluctuates at different points in your life. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic: You cannot accumulate more of it, and you’ve never had any less of it. You…

British police found a suspicious object along a highway and closed the road for several hours to protect motorists. A video recorded along the stretch of road showed that the stranded travelers passed the time by playing an extended soccer game in the empty northbound lanes. Thames Valley Police said…

Are you too busy? Do you need more time to get everything done? NASA is planning to help you a little. They have announced an extension to the year. On New Year’s Eve, December 2016, a “leap second” will be added to the world’s official clocks at 11:59:59 effectively making this year 1 second longer…

A South Florida church provides “instant salvation” for busy motorists by offering a drive-thru prayer service. If you need a quick prayer, you drive up to the window and a clergy member will pray for you, and then you are back on the road. Out of the 24-hour day (1440 minutes), are we so busy in our…

In an attempt to make their neighborhood a safer place to live, Bradley and Penny Mason purchased a vacant house adjacent to their home because they feared it was a fire hazard. As it turns out, they were right. As they were at the county courthouse signing the deed, the house caught fire. A neighbor…

June 2015 was one second longer than usual because scientists added one leap second to keep the earth and atomic clocks in synch. Scientists say that leap seconds are not like a leap days, which come every four years. Leap seconds are not predictable because weather exerts a force on the Earth’s surface,…

Nine out of ten younger millennials, aged 18 to 24, check their phones at least once an hour, if not “constantly.” The Bank of America mobile trend report says the same group is more likely than any other age group to sleep with their phones next to them in bed. The report found an interesting contradiction…

In the 1960’s, Simon and Garfunkel was one of the top recording artists. Then right at the top of their popularity they split up, going their separate musical ways. Now 45 years later we discover that Art Garfunkel has never forgiven Paul Simon for the breakup. Attributing the breakup to Simon’s unwillingness…

In the Disney animated movie Kung Fu Panda, Po is a struggling young panda working in his family’s noodle shop. Through a series of events, he receives the chance of a lifetime, his dream, to train with the Kung Fu masters. Under the leadership of Master OOgway, who is a mature, old turtle, Po begins…

Many people say they want a few minutes alone to think, but results of a study suggestion those people are the minority. The study conducted by the University of Virginia found that most volunteers who researchers asked to spend no more than 15 minutes alone in a room doing nothing found the task extremely…

The latest survey by the American Time Use Survey shows that Americans spend an average of two hours and 46 minutes each day watching TV. It is our most frequent past time. Americans over the age of 14 also spend eight hours and 44 minutes a night sleeping 10 minutes more per night than we did a decade…

Not far from Seattle, six underground radioactive waste tanks in Hanford are leaking. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says that one tank located in Hanford was leaking 150 to 300 gallons of radioactive toxic waste per year. It is horrifying to know that the Energy Department will not clean up the extremely…

Patricia Fortini Brown, in Venice and Antiquity, notes that the ancient Greeks distinguished two kinds of time, "kairos (opportunity or the propitious moment) and chronos (eternal or ongoing time). While the first ... offers hope, the second extends a warning." Kairos is the time of cleverness, chronos…

A new book explores the unique topic of time. Time is the most precious resource humans have, but the way we perceive it changes based on many factors. Sometimes time flows quickly, and sometime it creeps by at an unbelievably slow pace. Author and broadcaster Claudia Hammonds has written a book entitled,…

A new survey indicates a growing number of people are less attracted to social media sites such as Facebook. The poll conducted by Reuters and the Ipsos research firm found roughly a third of social media users are not excited about the experience, and the sentiment seems to be growing. The survey found…

A new study conducted by the University of Queensland in Australia suggests watching a lot of television may actually shorten a person’s life. The study found for every hour a person watches television after the age of 25, the average human life span decreases 22 minutes. Researchers tracked 11,000 participants…

In Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, David Platt writes, “The reality is that the church I lead can accomplish more during the next month in the power of God’s Spirit than we can in the next hundred years apart from his provision. His power is so superior to ours. Why do we not…

In Long Beach, California, police arrested a man for taking a photograph of “no aesthetic value.” “Sander Wolff, who takes photos for a local newspaper, was detained after snapping shots of an oil refinery.” What if authorities arrested everyone for engaging in activities of no value? Life could become…

Here, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him. Over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday." Memories flashed through…

Mr. Edward Magorium: 37 seconds. Molly Mahoney: Great. Well done. Now we wait. Mr. Edward Magorium: No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.