Talking About Time on Today’s My Rhymes and Reasons 3.12.25
Talking About Time with Greg on Today’s My Rhymes and Reasons
It’s Greg Asimakoupoulos with Wednesday’s edition of My Rhymes and Reasons. This week, we’re talking about time. In the back of me is a handmade clock crafted by a dear friend of mine, John Camp, a member of my first congregation, Bay Covenant Church. This is where I served when Wendy and I were married in 1982.
John gave that as a wedding gift, and twice a year, we thank God for John and Karen Camp because that’s when we changed, you know, for daylight saving or standard time. When we have to move the hands forward or backward, the active movement reminds me of that special relationship—that special gift.
I’ve also been sharing those thrift store finds that I found in anticipation of our daughter’s wedding and her decision to have as centerpieces at her tables at the reception because the wedding venue is a clock museum. So it has been a fun assignment for Dad.
To be collecting clocks, I like this one in particular, it’s delicate, ornate, tiny, and even color coordinated with what I’m wearing today. So I like this one time we have Expressions that we use to reference time, and there’s one phrase in the Bible that we see repeatedly.
Yet, it’s so familiar to us, especially in the King James version of the scripture, that when we find it or hear it, we just kind of gloss right on over without even thinking about what the words mean.
That phrase is this: “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. We know that passage from Luke Chapter 2…” You can hear more about it in the video above.
