My Daily Musing

   Yesterday was a bit of a shocker for me.
   I was the celebrant for a wedding between Brittany Novak and Scott Fogus at Queen of All Saints Church in Michigan City.
   I was joking with them at the rehearsal on Friday evening. I told them that I did not know how they could have grown up to marrying age (they are 25 and 24) when I have not aged any. Of course, all of us chuckled about that.
   But really. How could they be 25 and 24 already?
   Well, the shock was to continue. When I go to the church yesterday, the server for the wedding was already waiting in the sacristy. He looked at me and said, "You're Fr. Mike, aren't you?" He seemed to be all excited. I told him that I, indeed, was Fr. Mike.
   He said, "I remember you from when you were here. I thought you were the neatest priest!" I asked him how old he was. He said that he was going to be in the eighth grade this fall. That would have meant that he was a first grader when I left the parish to come to St. Thomas More in Munster!
   My little first grader is not in eighth grade, thinking about going into high school.
   How did that little guy grow up so fast when I haven't aged yet?
   Time is relentless.
   It really mystifies me and stupifies me. I just do not understand the whole concept of age.
   I will be 54 years old this coming October. I remember when I thought anyone older than 18 was dead. Now I look back at all those years and wonder where the time went.
   In all honesty, I do not remember becoming twenty, or thirty, or forty. Even the big 5-0 did nothing to me. Oh sure, the school kids had a blast and I received 50 of almost everything on that birthday. And that was almost four years ago already.
   I do not know how many days or months or years of life I have left. Whether I die tomorrow or, like my grandmother, at the age of 102, I will not believe how many years have gone by.
   God must get a real chuckle out of how we spend our lives trying to figure out what time is all about. He who is ageless and timeless just looks at us and grins and says to Himself, "When they finally come home, this will all make sense to them."
   Here's to making sense! And until that day, let's just enjoy the time that God has given to us.