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When
I awoke the next morning, the radio was blaring God
Talk.
“Why
is this on now?” I
looked at the clock. Eight
o’clock. Hmm.
I
usually missed God Talk. It came on at
nine and conflicted with my Sunday school class.
Maybe the radio station changed the broadcasting schedule?
After crawling out of bed, I did a sanity check.
Yep. Other clocks
read a little after eight. Then
my cell phone rang.
“Where
are you, woman?” Kathy
asked. “Are you coming
to class? You’re
leading the study this morning.”
“Yes,
of course.” I was
puzzled. “But I still
have forty-five minutes before I have to leave.”
“Do
you know what time it is?” Kathy
asked.
“Yes,
eight oh five.” I
looked at the clock on my microwave.
“It’s
later than you think.” Kathy
laughed.
“That
sounds just like something you would say about our study in
Revelation, Kathy.” Then
I looked at my cell phone, which was more accurate for the time.
“Yipes! It’s
nine oh six. How did
that happened?”
“Daylight
Savings Time. You forgot
to set your clocks ahead, didn’t you?”
“But
it’s early March. Last
year, Daylight Savings Time did not kick in till April.”
“It
came early this year.” Kathy
said calmly, “Now,
don’t have a panic attack. We’ll
keep ourselves occupied till you come.”
I
quickly dressed and made it to class a half an hour late.
Thankfully, church was nearby.
“What
did I miss?” I asked
our Bible study group.
“The
usual.” Kathy
shrugged. “We talked
about the end times with the trouble in the middle east, the moral
decadence in America, the trouble with the economy, the energy
shortage.”
Since
I did not have my morning coffee yet, my brain was not working.
“Why did Daylight Savings Time come so early this year?”
“The
energy crisis.” Kathy
said.
I
had a flashback. “Oh,
my, it’s 1974.”
“No,
2007.” Kathy’s
daughter Sharon, a teenager in the group, said with an evil grin.
“But
it’s deja vous all over again,” I
said. “In 1974, we had
an energy crisis. President
Nixon called for Daylight Savings Time in the middle of the winter.
And I had to walk to school in the dark because of it.”
“And
they impeached for that?” Sharon
commented.
“No,
he resigned, honey,” Kathy
corrected, but quickly added, “but
they should have impeached him for that.”
I
looked at Sharon. “Back
then, Hal Lindsey’s book ‘The Late Great Planet Earth’ just
came out about the end times. I
started seeing bumper stickers that said, ‘I case of rapture, this
vehicle will be unmanned.’ Comet
Kohoutek got people all excited as the sign in the heavens that
world was about to end. The
Arabs were fighting with Israel.
Gas prices were going up.
Iran humiliated us in the Middle East-”
“Just
like 2007.” Sharon
shrugged.
“Yes,
and now I find that I’ve lost an hour.”
I hit my forehead with the palm of my hand.
“It’s
later than you think.” Kathy
grinned.
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