The theory is that the faster you go, the slower time gets.  I recently heard a comment that a Russian astronaut who has been in space longer than any human being actually shows minute indications that he’s actually aged slower because when he’s in space he’s traveling at such incredible speeds that time has slowed a fraction for him.

We’d all like to slow down time, or at least be able to manipulate it for our advantage.  Most of God’s children look forward to entering eternity when time will seem to stand still. 

In this world there is another force at work that manipulates time.  Some how, some way it changes a day into a week, a week into a month, and sometimes even a month into a year.  The event is called “skipping church.”  It’s odd how this seemingly innocuous event—skipping church—can be manipulated into weeks and weeks of absence from the Lord’s kindness and mercy.  It’s odd how the intention to miss only one weekend, often turns into two or three or four, and how the Christian heart hears God’s call to worship and says, “Yea, I intended to go, but just got distracted.”