Happy Leap Day!

If you were to ask the average guy on the street how many days there are in a year, he’d probably say that there are 365. He’d be wrong. There are actually 365.25 days in a year (well, to be exact it's 365.242199 which translates into 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds...so let's just say that 365.25 is close enough), and that’s why we have Leap Year every four years.

From Julius Caesar to Pope Gregory, attempts were made to rectify the calendar. Eventually Leap Year was devised, and now we adjust our calendars every four years by adding an extra day in February.
 
Thinking about today’s date made me think of those who were born on February 29 and the joke many of them have about how old they are. (Since their birth date only comes around every four years, they joke that they’re only a quarter as old as their peers.) Still, I suppose birthdays really are extra special to Leap Year babies.
 
All this Leap Year talk is leading to this thought to consider: Time, as important and crucial as it is to our lives, is only temporary. It’s a creation just like most everything else. And while we must “redeem the time because the days are evil,” let us not lose sight of eternity. It’s so easy to get sidetracked by temporal things that we forget what matters most.

I'm praying for you as we continue our 40 Days of Prayer & Fasting...and part of what I'm praying is that God would reorder our priorities to embrace the things that last forever and minimize the hold that temporal things have on our lives.