525,600 minutes

how do you measure a year? how do you measure a life? by moments? or milestones? you might could make a case that there is a creation mandate to measure it by both. after all, when we look at creation, it is measured by the infinitesimal and the infinite. when we gaze upon the heavens, the stars in their courses, considering that each one may hold an entire universe, does it not bewilder you? can there be that much stuff beyond our sphere of influence? and looking inward, at the cellular level, is it not more astounding to contemplate the workings of the human body? cells divide TO multiply!!! that goes against everything they teach us in math class! and a life? can one predict or plan the moments or the milestones? anticipate maybe, but predict? not so much. i'm not even sure one can look back and pinpoint them all. it may even be that you might THINK something was a milestone when something else, seemingly insignificant, turned out to be so. i mean, it's easy to consider weddings, birth-days, promotions, etc. as milestone days but it's possible that some off-the-cuff remark about life or faith had a lasting impact on you...or, better still, your comment had a lasting impact on others! so moments ARE milestones and milestones are moments. would that we could all have a george bailey experience! but alas, that is not ours to expect or demand of the Lord. we must remember that all things are of Him and come from Him and are for our good. that every moment is a milestone embryo. that we should fill our moments with prayer that we will be clay in the potter's hands ready to be milestone vessels. i've been struggling with that today. how have i used my minutes? they do not roll over in real life as they might for your cell phone. what potential milestones have i let slip by me because i was caught up in the moment? we are given 525,600 minutes each year. that's 31,536,000 seconds; 31,536,000 moments. how will you measure this year? this life?