Time Zones and Time Changes

"Clock" CC2.0 by Ken Unger (Flickr)

      I’ve had a number of conversations this week that have spanned several time zones. The planning emails tend to offer the multitude of options… and trying to figure out if one person’s ‘do-able’ is encroaching on someone else’s ‘not-do-able’. 
     The planning for today’s conversation considered not only the various time zones, but today’s time change. Were we moving clocks forward? (Yes.) Was everyone going to be impacted by the time change? (No.) Did our computers automatically adjust for the changes? (Maybe?)
     Late Saturday, our conversation devolved into laughter. Our group consists of intelligent but overtired people, all wanting to offer our best but also knowing that our bodies are already telling us that we need more sleep. 
     If the topic of our conversations was not important, we would not have done this, this weekend. We would have likely waited until a few days after the time change, when such a transition didn’t matter.
     But we are a group of volunteers, planning worship, coordinating pastoral care, discussing advocacy. We are folks who know that our work will make a difference, and that it will span time zones and time changes. And so we do it: with grace, with laughter, with compassion. And we do it imperfectly, and with our limitations, and lots of yawn-induced typos. 
     But we do it: for the love of God, and with the support of each other. And as one beloved said this afternoon – we do it, letting the word of God wash over our hearts. 
     Within that framework, the time zones and time changes seem less impactful… besides, we can nap tomorrow!
*How will the time change affect your time of prayer and praise?