Pastor's Life - Time Change

Time Change by Rev. Philip Beck Soon we will “fall back” an hour. The first weekend in November, we return to standard time having been in daylight savings time since March. Like many, I grumble and complain about the change. There really isn’t an hour more of sleep. It will be dark earlier and many of us will be off to work when it is dark and return home in the dark. It is the nature of the days in this season. The writer of Ecclesiastes remarks on these seasons and the change when they write, “For everything there is a season, a time for every matter under heaven.” There is a saying my kids and younger friends have said to me, “times have changed.” There is of course truth to “times have changed.” Those of us who are older remember our math teachers saying, “You need to learn how to do your percentages. You aren’t going to have a calculator with you.”

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Rev. Philip Beck is the pastor at First United Presbyterian Church of Tarentum, north of Pittsburgh, having served there since May of 2001. Phil and his wife Christa have three adult children. In their spare time, Phil and Christa travel to visit their children and to experience the world. Phil likes to cook, plant flowers and vegetables at home and in the community garden, take walks, and nap occasionally. You will also find him the first two weeks of the season at the Chautauqua Institution every year.

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