William Lloyd Freeman,                        reveals a thirst for better ways to manage
                      born in the county of   our time, to become more efficient and
                      Gloucestershire in      productive. Much of the content of these
                      the south of England,   books reflects the readers’ underlying
                      penned the beautiful    panic at trying to cope with a society that
hymn that we often sing, Our Times are        continues to, almost mercilessly, demand
in Thy Hands. It isn’t quite clear as to the  more from us all. Sometimes, critical
circumstances that led him to write this      strains are created in our relationships
hymn, but it appears that he must have        at work, at home, or in school because of
understood a little of the truth that David   a sense of not being able to manage our
understood when he penned Psalm 31:15:        time effectively.
“My times are in thy hands.” The follow-
ing is an excerpt from that hymn:               The very technology (i.e. smartphone
                                              apps, etc.) that has been developed to help
          Our times are in Thy hands          us with time management seems only to
                                              demand more of our time, creating new
           Father we wish them there          tasks, activities, and responsibilities for
                                              us to fit into our busy schedules. This
      Our life, our soul, our all we leave    provokes more anxiety, even panic, as we
                                              desperately struggle to meet our dead-
               Entirely to thy care           lines and obligations. We often feel like
                                              hamsters on the activity wheel of life, vig-
          Our times are in Thy hands          orously spinning, but accomplishing little.

         Why should we doubt, or fear           While our obligations and responsibili-
                                              ties are not going to simply melt away as
     Our Father’s hand will never cause       a result of reading a book or article about

            His child a needless tear.

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