Delay

It’s easy, when we are young, to assume that we have time. Life is a long journey whose minutes are slow and years are fast. With 30 or 40 years left in our life expectancy, putting off the difficult and important things is preferable to encountering challenges. Actuarial tables concur with our assessment, until the flood waters come.

The early Christians, right after the Resurrection, believed that the second coming of Christ was imminent. The general thinking was that it would happen in their ...