Ephesians 4:15-16 (CSB): “15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you live — not as unwise people but as wise — 16 making the most of the time, because the days are evil.”

John Newton wrote this, on July 24, 1793, to a Mrs. Coffin about a recent death and about the nature of time: “We sensibly miss dear Mrs. Gardiner, but this is a changeable state. Meeting always implies parting in this world, but they that meet above shall part no more. Let us look upward and forward. Time, which is short in itself, passes swiftly away. Like passengers in a coach, whether we sleep or wake, we are lessening our distance from home every minute. Our coach will not stop, or make a moments’ delay, till it brings us to our journey’s end; and the hills and dales we have already travelled [sic] over, are out of sight and gone. The trials of yesterday are no more to us now, than those of the antediluvians. And tomorrow shall be as today; when once past it will return no more…” (“Letters of John Newton” Pages 380-381).