This weekend the clocks went back an hour. In 2023, this isn’t quite the same as when I was a child. My dad would change all the clocks in the house about 8pm on the Saturday evening so you would spend the rest of the evening trying to remember what the actual time was. One of my car’s spent 6 months with the wrong time as I couldn’t remember how to change it, and then it got to the point there was no point in changing it as we were nearer it being the right time again! These days, if it is electronic, it does it itself: phones, laptops, cars, smart watches: There is no need to pull out the manual and work out how to do it! I have one clock in my house that usually gets changed a few days later when I realise it isn’t the right time.
I wonder what you did with your extra hour? I would imagine most of us slept and took advantage of it, although small children and pets don’t understand the hour change and will wake at the same time regardless! Maybe you stayed up an extra hour and watched a film or read a book.
One of my favourite books in the Bible is in the Old Testament. It speaks of there being a time for everything under God. For us in the UK we are in a time of evenings closing in, and the colder weather approaching.
Loving God,
be with us as times change
help us to remember
that you are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Amen
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