Mar 15, 2011

How Time flies, just home from mission ,4 years for Lynn

As I have grown older time has grown shorter not only for my time left on earth but also seems to be going faster each year. I remember just after returning from my mission that I had been talking to Lynn and thought about the fact that he had now been home from his mission twice the length of y mission in other word for four years. It seemed the to me to be a very long time but four years later it seemed to be extremely short and now that I have been home for 36 years it really seems short. I have had a great time and lots of experiences in my life and over the past 5 years have been trying to write some of them down I now have around 100 of them done and at least two hundred to go. I have a hard time remembering all of the details but started out by just writing a line that would remind me of an event. That is why I know I have at least two hundred left but I keep having more so I may never get caught up and certainly will never get done. Hopefully my posterity will enjoy the stories though and maybe even learn something in the process. Lyn has now been home for over40 years, wow has time flown.

I had a conversation with one of my scouting friends as we traveled down to work on a woodbadge staff one year. He reminded me that it could easily be that days are physically shorter from year to year because the ord has stated in the scriptures that time will be shortened in the latter-days for the sake of the righteous. I always interpreted that as meaning the Lord would return sooner than planned but can easily see how the interpretation could be time during a day is shorter and I suppose if the earth were to slowly get closer to the sun and the rotations be shorter that time in turn would also be shorter. That is one of those mysteries that I don’t worry about knowing the answer to now but look forward to knowing it in the next life. It really has little bearing on my faith or testimony since I know that all of these things are done according to a law that God knows and someday if I can live the commandments that I will know also. 

Note added after the 9.0 Japan Earthquake March 15, 2011.

It has been reported that due to the earthquake that the earth now spins a little faster and thus time has been shortened by just s a fraction of a second but things adding up as they are has led me to believe that indeed the time of a day can truly be shortened.