Ever stop and think how quick time passes?

Maybe not the clock on the wall, but “life” time. Those 365 days that add up to a year in our lives. We pack a lot into those 365 days.  As I get closer to the end of that last 365 batch, and get ready for a fresh new batch of 365, I think about how it seems you blink, and that time passes.

Decorating for Christmas around the house, brought to mind so many memories and emotions. This year almost everything has new meaning to me. I think about last year at this time, doing the same things, and how much has changed since then.  How quickly it did change.

I was talking with a friend,  and asked the question,  ” why do we do all this?”  Meaning all the preparations and decorating.  She said, ” we do it because it makes us happy in the moment,  and reminds us of a time when we were young, and things were simple.”  I’m honestly not sure that’s a direct quote, but close enough to the sentiment, and absolutely true.  I thought about that conversation as I put something here or there. It did make me happy inside, and reflective of simple things, and easier moments.

I remember the feeling of sitting on the steps as a kid, looking at the presents under the tree. The wonder of it all.  As the batches of the 365 come and go, I remember the faces of my kids waiting on steps to see what Santa brought.  The Christmas plays at church. How my Dad shook his keys to make them sound like sleigh bells on Santa’s sleigh, and we acted like Santa was on the phone with our kids. Putting toys together at 2am, and understanding why my parents were so tired on Christmas morning.

As the new batch of 365 days gets closer, more moments,  more experience,  more Joy’s, more ups, more downs are sure to be in that batch.

The wonder of it all, in this thing we call life, sometimes we wish we could stop time, and hold it where we want. We can’t.  That’s the thing about time. It moves, and we move with it.  The blessing is, if we learn to cherish time with all it gives us, it might seem to slow just enough for us to catch up.

Peace and joy to you, and your new batch of 365.

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