Friday, November 13, 1998
Friday, November 13, 1998
You have made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for
setting. (Psalms 104:19
NRSV)
A couple of weeks ago we move our clocks back to Standard Time, which reminds me of a very
stubborn man, a Kansas farmer, and an independent thinker if there ever was one. I don't know his
name, but I do know that in the early 1940s, this Kansas farmer alleged that the worst thing that
ever happened to the United States of America was the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as
President. And, he said, the worst thing Roosevelt ever did was to approve the order of Daylight
Saving Time.
As you know, the order went through, but the old farmer never changed his clocks, so he was
always one hour off the time observed by everyone else. That farmer lived and died by the old
time. And his defense, he felt, was theological. He said, "I will not exchange God's time for
Roosevelt's time!"
Prayer: Lord, may I always live in your time and in your seasons, while I work to keep
the distractions away in serving you. Amen.
Ronald Newhouse, Texas, USA