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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with singer and musician Ruth Jennings. Good morning. Today is national Tick-Tock day. Nothing to do with social media, but the literal sound that a clock makes. The idea is that you have limited time left of this year to sort out your unfinished business.When the day was invented, just over 30 years ago, they originally named it ‘still need to do day.’ And let’s be honest, there’s always something needing to be done. My front car wheel has a slow puncture, I have a laundry pile nearly as tall as me and I haven’t completed my 2025 invoices yet. I recently had the flu, I don’t mean a bit of a cold, I mean the real proper flu where you can’t get out of bed for days, your temperature is sky high and you feel utterly horrendous. As I began to get a little better, it dawned on me, I’d essentially missed three days of my life. I felt oddly guilty that those days were ‘wasted’ even though in reality I was too ill to do anything about it. The world tells us that if we’re not actively producing, we’re worthless. The Bible doesn’t agree. I love the message version of Jeremiah 2: “Slow down. Take a deep breath. What's the hurry? So, on National Tick tock day, I guess we’re meant to hurry to finish unfinished business and be productive before the new year. But what if instead we breathe in what we have and what we’re grateful for? That we are still before God and use our time to deepen our relationship with Jesus. And we don’t panic if we still have a large laundry pile on 1st January? Heavenly Father, Thank you for rest, calm and stillness. We ask that you would help us remember that life is not an emergency and we don’t constantly have to hurry. Help us be still and know that you are God. Amen