Road Signs

Something To Think About. . .
It’s disappearing one moment at a time. It hasn’t happened all at once. If you had told me, I would have noticed it. But one little bit after one little bit, it is definitely disappearing. You don’t notice it at first. We never do. One infantisamal little bit at a time.
Oh there are road signs along the way but you don’t notice them very often. In fact you usually don’t notice them until you have passed a lot of them. Most of you will not remember those Burma Shave road signs back in the 20's and 30's. The owner’s son came up with this unique way of advertising. Spaced out along the side of the road, they would put up four to six white lettered, red signs. Couldn’t do that today. Vandalism and graffiti artists would destroy them in a matter of hours. The idea was, if you didn’t see the first one you would see the others and get the message. Here is one that is close to my heart, or should I say, head;
SAID FARMER BROWN
WHO'S BALD ON TOP
"WISH I COULD
ROTATE THE CROP"
BURMA-SHAVE
One day you wake up and you get the message. What has disappeared is time. In the time it has taken you to read this article, you have used up more than one hundred fifty of them. Not much you may say but they do add up. Along with the seconds, we leave behind all the things we accomplished, all the things we once did and all the things we once said. In each of these categories we have those we are proud of and some we wish never happened.
When we realize that time has gone by, we have arrived. We no long feel it as a loss of time, but a gain of experience. We now have what we saw in our parents. Those attributes we call maturity and wisdom. This may mean saying to ourselves, “Run? What for? Climb a tree? Why?”
Remember this. All of life’s experiences have been worth the time. Without doing things, we would have never experienced the excitement of adventure and pride of accomplishment along life’s road. We may miss them but they were wonderful at one time. They were part of our growing up and getting to today. We think about, kick the can and Monopoly. We remember tiddly winks, first dates and lost loves. We sit looking out the front window of our homes and remember the fall of 19 . . . and smile. There are memories of skipping rope and falling off bikes. All of it is past. We have left it all behind with one exception. We still have our faith. In fact, our faith may be the only thing we have left that is growing in a positive way. There is no way to go back and right all the wrongs. Years have passed and there is no going back but there is always tomorrow with God. Alan Alda does not believe there is anything beyond this world but I do. I believe that we have had all the time in the world to get to know the one who not only created the world we live on but He created each of us. And that is why, I take the time each day to get to know the one I will meet face to face after experiencing all that the world had to offer.
Rob