Nineteen Days

It's leap year,  So we get an extra day in February.  The purpose of leap year is to better make the Earth's rotation and the  movement around the Sun better match up and adding an extra day every four years seems to do the trick.  Well mostly.

Twenty-six times there has been a leap-second added to the clock. This is an extra second added on to the end of a day to keep the our clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation.  There is a group called the Earth International Rotation and Reference Systems Service who monitor the rotation of the Earth and how it affects the length of a day.  This is actually someone's job.  Who knew?  And the whole topic of adding leap seconds seems to mess with computer software and is quite controversial in some circles.

So what are you going to do with your extra day.  February 29 is on a Monday, and for me it will likely be like every other Monday.  We will go to work and school and do our chores and what ever else we normally do on a Monday.  And maybe, just maybe, at some point during the day we will have to record the date and say to ourselves, "Hey, its leap day." and then move on.  

I think that it would be great to make February 29 an international holiday.  You have an extra day, make the most of it.  Rest.  Relax,  Catch Up.  Work ahead.  It's an extra day, so make the most of it.

What would be even better would be to save all those leap days up and use them all at once.  Now stay with me here.  The average life expectancy in the United States is 78 years.  That means that the average person will experience 19 leap years in their life.  Nineteen extra days.  If at the end of your life, you could take those nineteen days and do something special, what would it be?  It sure does make you think.  Maybe that trip that you always dreamed of.  Maybe ending a long standing feud or just spending that time with the people you love.

But we don't get that extra time, not really.  Monday will be a day like any other and there is no way to save it all up until the end.  So the moral of the story is to take care of business now.  So we need to mend the fences, live the way we should and spend time with those who matter.  Now.  Today.  Without waiting.

In no place is this more true than in our walk with God.  We will not get an extra nineteen days at the end nor even one.  There is nothing that we can do to mend it on our own we need help.  However, the one thing that we can do is the one thing that He asks of us.  Surrender.  We need to come to a place where we acknowledge that our will is not the best way and that God's will is better.

Watch this clip from Pastor Chris.

  We can't save up time to use at the end.  The nineteen days will be mixed in with all of the others.  We need to make the most of our every day.  And chief on the list is making things right between us and God.  He is waiting.

Have a great day.