All Saints Fishponds

ODE TO TIME

Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with £86,400.

It carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever you have not used during the day. What would you do? Draw every penny of course.

Well everyone has such a bank its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds, and every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to put to good purpose.

So, if you fail to use the days deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back or drawing against tomorrow, a new account is fresh each day.

We live on the days deposits, and must invest them wisely to make the most of our health, happiness and success. But the clock is running, make the most of today.

To realise the value of one year, ask the student who failed a grade.
To realise the value of one month, ask the mother of a premature baby.
To realise the value of one week, ask a farmer with crop to harvest.
And as for a day, well ask a daily wage labourer who has children to feed.
An hour is forever if lovers are waiting to meet.
And as for a minute, ask someone who missed a train.
To realise the true value of one single second, ask someone who avoided and accident.
As for a millisecond, our hearts go to the athelete who won silver not gold.


Treasure every moment, maybe one that is shared, growing up and growing older…time waits for no one, yesturday is history. Today is our gift………that is why it is called the PRESENT