A few years ago, when I was taking the clock off the wall in my office, it got caught on the hook, and in my prying, all the hands fell off. While those funny, "Who Cares!" clocks with all the numbers falling to the bottom make a good joke, they still actually do tell time. My clock now told me nothing. And while I replaced the clock (with one that I very gently take on and off the wall each spring and fall), I kept the old clock. I never actually did it, but I had plans to hang the clocks up next to one another, writing on the face of one, "EST," and across the face of the other, "God's Time" or some other clever phrase to illustrate the point.

Why do I check the clock? To make sure I'm staying on task, getting things done, accomplishing something, regimenting my day properly. But somehow I doubt that's really what God intended for me to be doing several times a day, especially considering an accurate clock like I have in my office didn't even come into being until sometime in the last few hundred years, which means people survived for an enormously long amount of time without pulling out their sundial every 15 minutes.

So maybe I was connecting with that when during my breathprayer this morning for the Cup of Our Life study I took down the working clock and switched it with the God-time clock. It seemed right for the start of a new study--like an ebenezer of sorts marking the removal of a distraction for the space and time reflection.

For those of you in the study, what are your spaces and times for reflecting looking like?