I was recently speaking with family members about upcoming events.
And there are a few “monumental” events in this season of life that have pulled the classic cliche move of “getting here before we know it.”
For example:
Time is definitely moving faster than we are.
Yesterday’s prompt was triggered by my reading “TIME” on the One-Word Gratitude prompt list. But I didn’t mention the word and ended up going in a slightly different direction.
So today we’re using the word directly.
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One Word (other than Gratitude)
·I call it “The World's Simplest, Most Habit-Forming, Creative Gratitude Practice”. Because: It only takes one word. You can do it in less than 90 seconds. You can learn how to do it in less than 5 minutes. And really, you can learn a basic 2-step version in mere moments.
When you’re ready,👇🏿.
Here’s today’s gratitude prompt:
TIME
What image comes to mind when you read the word time?
What do you, people you know, or strangers have to be grateful for related to the image in your mind?
Related to time, what might you (or they):
have been grateful for in the past?
be grateful for in the future?
be grateful for right now?
Whenever I think of time, I think of my time with Semester at Sea and how it taught me that time is an arbitrary creation, and that cycles are what really matters. As we were traveling between multiple time zones just going from one port to another we would change our clocks daily or every couple of days so we could be on the time of the next country. It only mattered for obligations (which at the time I would have called “commitments”). It didn’t matter for the important stuff, like waking, quiet time, community. Time is what you make it. It is fleeting but it is also enough.
Time
The clock at central station.
I was blessed to be given the chance to be there.
With family.
With friends.