hello daylight savings...

I know it's November when the clocks turn back one hour and I wake to a sunrise at six o'clock. Daylight savings was something I always looked forwards to when I was younger, it was a chance to stay up an hour past my bedtime and yet still go to bed on time. There's something special about waking up to the earliest rays of sunlight streaming across my sheets, creating patterns on my comforter and lighting up the corners of my room. These are some of the first things the sunlight has touched today.

In the past few years I have not gotten up earlier on daylight savings like I did when I was younger. The early mornings hours - five, six, seven o'clock - have passed me by but this year when I woke to a six o'clock alarm I decided to stay up.

With the clocks ticking behind a whole sixty minutes I now see how close the year is to being over. The busiest season for me awaits in the next eight weeks. Setting up the rest of the Christmas decorations at work, the last few weeks of the semester, getting ready for finals at the end of November, then jumping right into Christmas preparations; very soon it'll be New Year's Eve and I will be writing my farewell to 2019. The holiday season has begun even though Thanksgiving hasn't yet past. I am not ready for it to begin, for once it does the time will slip too by quickly and unnoticed, and before I can blink I will find myself on the doorstep of 2020.

When I was younger I was always told that time would fly by quicker the older I got. I thought that meant when I turned 18 the years would suddenly fly by. Fortunately that isn't the case. Time has steadily increased its passing over the years and I know that as my years continue to grow it will only pass quicker. With the turning back of the clocks it is my turn to take a step back from the busyness of it all, pause, and ask myself how I want this season to go.

Sitting here, at my desk writing this blog post, with the rays of sunlight shining across my computer keys, all I can think of is this: I do not want to get lost in the chaos of it all. I don't want the stress of it to overshadow what this time of the year means to me. It means joy and family and friends and Jesus. I don't want to forget that.

How about you? How do you want this seaosn to go?

I hope you have a lovely weekend!!

soli deo gloria.

-Lydia