Through some conversations with friends tonight some great wisdom was spoken about time. I got some good perspective that I hadn’t really thought of before.

One friend said: “Well if you look at your life and say you live at least 80 years. Spending even 5 years doing something is such a small fraction of that.”

Huh. Good point. It seems like a lot now, but in the grand scheme of things it’s really not.

The other friend passed on some wisdom she had learned from someone else, saying: “You can do anything for one year!”

How true! I think back to a year ago and cannot believe that… well, that it was a whole year ago. But in our 80 year example, that’s so small!

It’s hard to think about right now, because I am 27 and 5 years seems like a heck of a lot of time because that’s roughly 1/5 (some might say 5/27) of my life! But when I am 80 and I look back, that one year of doing whatever will be only one of many.

Any years can be really good, and they can be really bad. They can mean something, and you can do a lot or a little, but you can do anything for a year.

Now think about things in perspective of eternity. I know because of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus that I will get to live eternally with him.

One year out of eternity. 1 out of infinity. You really can do anything for a year.

This is not to say that the time we spend here doesn’t matter, but at the same time we shouldn’t worry so much about how long this or that is taking, or why this hasn’t happened yet.

There is eternity and eternity starts now. We should take hold of the moments we have and not wait for someone else to do something or for this or that to change, but take hold and change it ourselves for the Kingdom of God.