MARRIED TO TIME

Note: Two things were happening when I sat down to spend some quiet time reflecting. 1) My husbands 67th birthday and my son, a young man of 16 years in age....who is driving and more and more making his own choices and decisions to embrace his future. As a mom and wife; successes and failures are what I'm made up of. I've made plenty of mistakes and I have certainly wasted precious time in many ways. There are mistakes from things I have taught and things that I have not taught.

MARRIED TO "TIME"

We are all married.

Married to "time".

In its vastness, we are an intricate part of it.

Part of its power.

We can never tame it or control it.

Its boundaries are set permanently.

The moment we take in a breath;

Perhaps say a wrong word in the next (moment),

We can't take it back.

Yet it will find a place to reside in our heart

And in the heart of whom it was spoken to.

No, we can't control time or take anything back...............ever.

For some, it's a minute that's gone...........lost,

For others it could be a day....a month....or years.

Throughout the ages............time........is unchangeable.

We can never tame it or control it.

But we can join with it,

to make the best and most of it.

To allow it to be of good work.

What we say and how;

What we do to whom and where and why.

Time spent in regret clouds our vision

And causes us to see and even hear incorrectly....

with misunderstanding.

Regret is a thief of time.

Don't allow it to capture you!

I release my son, my husband, my family, my friends

and strangers every day....to time.

Time spent with them, words spoken to them

and words spoken about them.

I send them on their way;

With my words and actions.

Time's realm of authority is worth embracing.

We are married to it.

It is a gift.

A gift to us from the Hand of God.

Denise Sherriff

August 15,2010