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Have you begun to notice how \u201ctime\u201d has different speeds? We see \u201cslow time\u201d when we consider the Grand Canyon and the millions of years nature took to carve it. Still growing, the Giant Sequoias are now approaching 2500 yrs. old. Haley\u2019s Comet will cruise by our planet in another 500 years or so. California is moving toward Australia by about 4 inches a year. Nature doesn\u2019t seem to be in a hurry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFast time\u201d is something we humans invented. An hour is still 60 minutes, of course, but fast time changes our experience of those minutes. Aren\u2019t you amazed when dinner with friends is suddenly over? The long\u0016awaited vacation has come and gone? You turn 20 or 40 or 60 or 75! \u201cWhat?! I can\u2019t be that old. Where did the time go?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFast time\u201d has invaded our culture. We have certain expectations that things happen quickly. Waiting is an evil to be avoided. Instant coffee, credit card checkout, microwave dinners, online shopping, create an intolerance for anything that \u201ctakes time\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology has been a blessing, of course. It frees us to enjoy our time in ways other than waiting. But it can also keep us from experiencing the part of life that has its own time; things our wishes can\u2019t make any quicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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