Stopped Clock

3:16:18.

If you’re using this clock of mine to tell time, it’s only going to be right 2 times a day.

But, I don’t use it to tell time.  

The intention for the clock was of course to serve as a timekeeper, but it ticked so loudly that I had to remove the batteries.  I couldn’t remove the clock.  I mean, the nail was in the wall.  Its place in the collage had been established.  

It reminds me of another clock without a battery that had been permanently set.  It was for 11:23.  As a gift to my parents when they sold our childhood home, we had a clock permanently set to remind us of all the time we had at 1123.  My childhood residence.

There’s a place for this clock in their new home.  It will always remind us of Cristland.

So, here’s this clock with no purpose.  Its only job is to tell time.  If it can’t do that then what can it do? So, like Mom and Dad’s, I had it set, too. For this clock, the hour hand is positioned on 3.  The minute hand is fixed on 16 and the second hand rests on 18. 

I figure I could repurpose it, so to speak.  

In Ephesians, I have had a momma’s prayer for my children since I started realizing that I could read something from scripture and want it to be true for them.  At the time, it was a prayer for my two girls before I even had a son.  And, then later for him. My son brought home the hanging sign below the clock from Thailand.  It means family.  

The ones for whom I pray Ephesians 3:16-18.

When I look at the clock and I look at the sign below, I know what time it is. 

With new additions to our family, I pray for us all.

“I pray that from His glorious unlimited resources, He will give you mighty inner strength from His Holy Spirit. And I pray that He will be more and more at home in your hearts as you learn to trust in Him.  I pray that your roots may go down deep into the soil of His marvelous love and come to know, as all God’s people should, how wide, how high, how long, and how deep His love really is.”

All the time.

Ephesians 3:16-18