Ordinary Wonderment

Today's Joy: Finding Out Some Interesting Facts About Yourself.
My dear friend, K, asked me to blog about this website he found: www.paulsadowski.com. You plug in your birthday or your name and a whole list of interesting and amusing facts come up.

Here is some of what it said about me:
As of 4/24/2010 10:54:15 AM EDT
You are 33 years old.
You are 404 months old.
You are 1,757 weeks old.
You are 12,299 days old.
You are 295,186 hours old.
You are 17,711,214 minutes old.
You are 1,062,672,855 seconds old.

I am 12, 299 days old! That is so cool! Who knew it was so many! Well, I could have figured it out, but honestly, it never occurred to me. Wow, I've woken up on over 12,000 mornings. I've been alive for 12,000 sunsets and 12,000 earth revolutions! Being 404 months old means there have been 404 full moons in my lifetime. 1,757 weeks means I've had 1,757 Fridays! Pretty cool stuff (and yes, I'm easily amused).

Sure, it seems like trivial stuff. But sometimes trivia can remind us how blessed we are. So far, God has given me over 17 million minutes on this Earth. That's amazing! Imagine all the lives I've been a part of in that time! Imagine all the opportunities to do good for others and make a positive difference. And how many of those minutes went by unused and unnoticed?

How many minutes have you had, Reader? What are you going to do with them? Powerful stuff!