Where has the time gone?

It's a week after Labor Day, which is freaking me out when I think of all that has happened since Memorial Day.

This year so far has roughly been divided into two chunks... New Years to Memorial Day... Memorial Day to Labor Day. The first part so surprising, so happy, so energized and excited; the second part so heavy and sorrowful, surprising in the worst possible way.

Pretty soon Joe will have been gone for longer than we were together. In a few years he'll have been gone longer than I knew him....I've done the same sort of time tracking with Mom. I marked the year when I had lived half my life without her, then the next year when I had lived over half my life without her. Every day takes me so much farther away from the last time I saw them.

In a million years, we'll all have been with the Lord for so long with no end in sight. That sounds amazing.

This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:27-29 ESV)