The Grandfather Clock

I once heard a story about a grandfather clock that was being built.

When it was finished and the clockmaker wound up the clock, the grandfather clock started thinking.

“My pendulum will swing and I will tick sixty times a minute.

“That comes to three thousand six hundred times in an hour.

“I will tick eighty-six thousand four hundred times every day.

“That’s thirty-one million, five hundred fifty-seven thousand, six hundred ticks every year.

“If I live to be 100, I will have ticked three billion, one hundred fifty-five million, seven hundred sixty thousand times.”

So, in anticipated exhaustion, the poor grandfather clock stopped running.

 

If I could have seen up front everything that my life would hold, I don’t think I could have handled it.

We don’t have to live our whole life at once.

Just take one minute at a time. That’s only sixty ticks. I can do sixty ticks.