What Time Is It?
“Daddy, what time is it?” With little concept of the reality of time, my youngest daughter asks this question on many nights. “It’s 9pm” is the equivalent to “it’s 7pm” to her. It’s simply an answer from her daddy in which a meaningless number is attached. But when I say, “It’s bedtime,” she knows it’s time to spring into action – brush teeth, get dressed, read a book, sing songs, say prayers, and go to sleep. Without my specific reminder of just what time it is, I don’t know if my youngest child would ever go to sleep.
I wonder how many people walk around with no idea of just what time it is. Oh, we know the time on our smartphone and the date on our Google calendar, but do we really know what time it is, and does it spring us into action?