Children and family friends are celebrating Graduation and Confirmation, and we all are realizing how quickly the months have flown by since last summer ended. Professor Israel Davidson of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America used to carry a pocketwatch.
Time is life.
We're all too busy. I once heard a comedian remind us that on the seventh day, God rested. Paradise, the comedian is convinced, was the Garden of Eden - until the snake offered Eve a minivan. There is no question that kids today are overprogrammed. Soccer, Little League, basketball practice, dance, computers, piano lessons.