Maybe it's a combination of end-of-year musings with the reality of now being in my mid-50s, but today I was thinking about how short history is.
When I was younger, I thought 2,000 years was a super long time - in fact, a suspiciously long time - to pass without seeing Jesus' Second Coming.
Nowadays, two thousand years seems quite a bit shorter.
Just as a thought experiment this morning I did some math and realized it would be possible to have only 2 handshakes separating me from George Washington.
Say Washington shook the hand of a 3-year-old boy even before the American Revolution. That boy could have lived through the Civil War and beyond. And what if he had shaken hands in 1879 with a 3-year-old girl who then also went on to live to a ripe old age and shook my hand when I was 3 in 1971?
Just two handshakes could separate me from old George, the father of our nation!
Time flies.
No wonder God laughs at the scheming of the nations.
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