Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

I was cleaning the house a few weeks ago and found a few containers of loose change. Adding that change to the glass of change already on my dresser added up to about 10 pounds of loose change. Loose change is like free money. I started rolling it last night and I am up to $36 dollars so far. I figure I will be up near $50 when complete. Of course while rolling the change, David Bowie’s Changes kept playing in my mind. The chorus goes like this:

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

Then the thought occurred that the only constant in life is change. We grow up, get married, start a family, grow old, life continues, things change before we know it. In 2014 I had at least 6 graduations and a wedding (not mine). Where has the time gone? Being a bachelor I think I don’t notice the passage of time as much without children growing up in the house. My friends with children have constant reminders of the passage of time. I don’t always see that. But this year many friends have kids graduating high school and I remember the kids when there were 4, 5, 8, and in one case a newborn. The passage of time has really hit me.    Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 says it well:

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.