Posts with Tag: heaven
“Dad! There’s a dog in the back yard.” It was a few years ago during a sweltering Summer day. It hadn’t rained in weeks and the grass had started to turn brown and die. I was sitting in front of my window air conditioner trying to cool down a bit when my son called to me. I walked over to the back door and looked outside. There sniffing around our back yard was the dog. He didn’t look in very good shape either. He was a mixed breed with hound dog ears but was horribly underweight. I could see the skin stretched tight over his ribs. He looked like he hadn’t eaten in weeks. I quickly grabbed two bowls and filled one with dog food and the other with water. I walked out my door and called to the poor pooch. He wagged his bony tail and walked over to me. I sat down the...
Sometimes at the end of the day I would wonder, 'where did the time go?' This happens most times when I was extremely busy at work or working on a project and I lost all sense of time while battling with the assignment.Looking back at my fifty plus years on earth, I can't help but think, 'where did all those years go?' Yet as I think of this, the clock in my living room continues to count the seconds without stopping. It goes 'tick-tock tick-tock' without caring about my concerns regarding the passing of time. It makes me remember the various sayings about time, 'Time waits for no one' and 'A stitch in time saves nine'My thoughts are not really on the issue of time now but rather on how we get so caught up in the now that we don't even think so much o...
