"A PERSPECTIVE ON TIME - THOUGHTS WHILE CHANGING THE CLOCK"

Daylight Savings Time (DST) ends this coming Saturday night. I'll leave it to another columnist to tell you why ... I'm sure she understands the rationale behind it much better than I. I think it's "fall back and spring forward," but the weekend we do each keeps changing. By the way, I collect clocks. Pictured is one of my favorites ... my "bird clock" that chirps every hour on the hour (except in the dark). More about clocks in my next blog post sometime next week.

I've lived long enough to remember when Arkansas did not observe DST. I was born and raised in St. Louis and when we would visit my grandmother in northeast Arkansas in the early sixties, my dad would have to change his watch in the summer. Missouri observed DST, Arkansas didn't back then.

Changing the clock reminds me of our changing times. In this modern age, we don't even have to change some clocks anymore ... they change automatically! It's the same with life ... some things we can change, some things we can't, and some things change for (or in spite of) us. It reminds me of something I wrote when my mom died ten years ago. Click on this link and think about it while you change the clock this weekend:

http://one-pastors-perspective.blogspot.com/2007/10/perspective-on-aging-part-3-thoughts.html

It's just one pastor’s (and son’s and husband’s and father’s) perspective.