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Do you like those old-style timers, with sand falling through a tiny tube?

I think them quite profound at measuring time by grains of sand, and I feel them so very emblematic. I wonder whether in Heaven there is some similar kind of timer that measures each one of us, or even a timer that only God can read for the world, this system, this flawed system of things, existence.

The sands of time are running out!
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Yes, there is a sort of inevitability in the way a sand-timer works, be it an egg-timer or an hour-glass such as was used on ships before the chronometer was invented.

The effect is particularly so when the bulb is nearly empty and though the grains are still falling at the same number per second the level in the funnel-shaped part drops ever more rapidly.

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From the profound to the practical....

Somewhere I have a sand-bulb egg-timer with a suction-cup for clinging to wall tiles.

It was part of a "water-saving" kit distributed by our water company, and gives sufficient time, about 3 or 4 minutes, for a shower including washing your hair.

I daresay many users cheated the system by turning it over to double the length of the shower... or just forgot about it after the novelty wore off. Mine did not stick to the tiles very well anyway.

The other two items in the kit were a w.c. cistern water-saver oddly called a Hippo, and an advice leaflet. The Hippo was a plastic, square, open-topped bottle that simply reduced the volume of water flushed at a time. It was designed for cisterns not fitted with dual-flush valves.
MPath37 · 51-55, M
Yes, in a sense, there is most definitely a very similar kind of timer in eternity: since eternity is endless, all of the moments in eternity are nfinitesimal, like grains of sand . . .
DaliaCQ · 26-30, F
@MPath37 Yes, so very true
MPath37 · 51-55, M
@DaliaCQ but, if we open our hearts to God, and let God pour God's love into our hearts, then our little acts of love become so much more
MPath37 · 51-55, M
@DaliaCQ if you want to read spiritual works in this vein, I recommend checking out the writings of Saint Therese of Lisieux, and books about her. After the Bible, she' has provided one of the top two written influences on my spirituality.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Many, MANY years ago I had one of those for timing boiled eggs. I LOVE the look of them.

 
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