Time Flies!

John 9: 4

The Romans had a pagan god named Janus.
Janus was the god of gates and doors and new beginnings.
He was two-faced -- he looked both ways.
Our word, January, is named after him.
January is where we are once again.
It doesn't seem possible!
What happened to Easter? Summer? Thanksgiving? Christmas?
Gone!

The ancient worshipers of the pagan God, Janus, would have put it,
"Tempus Fugit!"
"Time flies!"
Jesus reminded us that time flies as He said to His disciples:
"The night cometh, when no man can work." (John 9: 4)

• The Scottish writer, Thomas Carlyle wrote on the flyleaf of his first book, "Cometh night."
• Robert Murray McCheyne, the powerful Scottish preacher, reminded himself and his friends
  that time flies by ending his letters to his friends with Jesus' words, "Cometh night."
  But McCheyne never dreamed as he wrote those sobering words in his letters
  that his days were so limited that he would die in his 30th year.
• English author, Samuel Johnson, remembered how quickly time flies,
  and so, he had inscribed on his watch the Lord's warning, "Cometh night."
• Scotland's greatest novelist, Sir Walter Scott had the words, "Cometh night,"
  sculpted on the sundial of his cottage home.
  There, were Scott spent so many pleasant years, one can read the noted novelist's last words
  entered in his diary: "Tomorrow we shall..." But, for him, tomorrow never came.

• Catherine the Great, the 18th century ruler of Russia, came to the end of her sixty-seven years sighing,
  "I am an accumulation of broken ends."
  She learned -- too late -- that time flies.
• When Raphael was carried into the studio to take a last look at his majestic painting,
  "The Transfiguration," he sighed, "Alas, it will never be completed!"
  He died in his 37th year.
• Australian composer, Franz Schubert, at the age of 31, was working on his,
  "Unfinished Symphony," when death suddenly came.
• Frank Grasso, conductor of the Tampa, Florida, Symphonette Orchestra, died suddenly
  as he was directing the last number of a concert.
  Ironically, the number was Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony."
• English novelist, Charles Dickens, whose imagination has thrilled generations,
  was touched by the angel of death and quietly laid down his pen in the middle of a sentence.
• When England's Queen Elizabeth I lay on her deathbed, her last words, so it is said, were:
  "Time! Time! Give me one more moment of time.
  I would give my kingdom and all I possess for one more moment of time."
  But, not one minute could she buy.