“You are wearing time well!” someone told me today. Nice compliment. I hope so.

I like getting older. You gain efficiency, as you work on completing your symbols, which you finally already know. If the first half of life is about finding who you are, the second is about refining it, stewarding your symbols, and making them more fruitful for others. You get to be a beginner again-new motivations for service. Time gets a bad rap. Time’s not so bad, especially as our names somehow go on forever. We are God’s great ellipses! Takes the pressure off! I think I’ll keep wearing time.

At my wedding I wore nine watches, one even ran backwards (my Hebrew watch) all set on different time zones. I did this mainly back then to remind me to pray for all my friends all over the world, but I think i was into time, even back then.