Lose An Hour

This Saturday night, an hour of time will simply disappear.  The time on your phone will go from 1:59AM to 3:00AM.  The spring time change creates a lot of consternation.  Losing an hour of sleep is a big deal!  I’ve read that traffic accidents and other fatigue-related injuries increase in the week following the start of Daylight Savings.  As a person who has a lot invested on Sunday mornings, I worry about people forgetting to set their clocks ahead and showing up for church as the service is ending.  Or being drowsier than usual during the service due to the aforementioned loss of sleep.  So I’ve come up with a proposal to do something more productive with this event - something more useful than an extra hour of light in the evenings.

I would like to propose that we can choose any hour of the entire year to “lose.”  It doesn’t have to be 2:00AM-2:59AM on March 10.  It could be that hour last summer when you lost your temper at your kids.  It could the hour over the winter when you had the accident.  It might be the hour where you said some things you regret.  The hour that you had too much to drink or made a choice you wish you could make go away.  Well, why not use Daylight Savings to remove these hours instead of an hour when we’re getting rest and staying out of trouble?  In all seriousness, God has already done this.  God has already removed our sins from us as far as the east is from the west.  He has forgotten them as if they had never happened.  Thanks be to God!