By the time you read this column all of the special events will be a thing of the past. I didn’t have any ghosts or goblins at my door on Halloween, the Boston Red Soxs won the World Series and we are back on Central Standard Time and all is going well. Our weather continues to be on the unpredictable side. (So what else is new?) It sounds like we might be receiving more precipitation. This is not good news for our farmers who still have corn in the field. I have a word of consolation for them. I heard on the radio this morning that fishing is very good when it rains. So why not forget the fieldwork and just go fishing! Good luck!Sunday dinner guests in the Harvey and Gertrude Rozeboom home following the morning worship service in Steen Reformed Church were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Bosch, Chino, Calif., Pete and Trudy Teune, Steen, and Gil and Betty Teunissen, Inwood, Iowa.Mr. and Mrs. Pete Bosch are here to visit their granddaughter Rachael Dahl who attends Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. Steen Senior Citizens had their November meeting Monday afternoon at Steen Community Center. Cards and games were played. Lunch was served by Verla Baker.The Inspiration Hills harvest supper sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16. Monday afternoon coffee guests in the Jo Aykens home in honor of her birthday were Henrietta Huenink, Winnie Scholten, Jennie Schouwenburg, Joan Hoogeveen, Verla Baker and Mildred Keunen. The Hope Circle of the Women’s Society of Steen Reformed Church will hold their meeting at the Dries and Laura May Bosch home in Brandon, S.D., on Wednesday afternoon. The Hills-Beaver Creek FFA members are having their annual FFA fruit sale through Nov. 1. If no one has contacted you and you are interested in purchasing some fruit, call one of the FFA members or the H-BC School. I am sure they would be happy to know about your interest. The choir concert for grades K through 12 at the H-BC School will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the Elementary School in Beaver Creek. Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Pete Bosch, Chino, Calif., Harvey and Gertrude Rozeboom, Gil and Betty Teunissen, Inwood, and Pete and Trudy Teune enjoyed supper together at Luverne Pizza Ranch.I love going back to Central Standard Time! My day seems to be several hours longer. I do not know why but I think the extra hour of sleep helps us to be more alert and more competent. At any rate, time influences many things in our lives. We all have schedules to meet. We have no way of controlling our daily time. We cannot control time to suit ourselves. Time continues to run at its own speed. Time really influences our lives.I will give you a few examples of it. These are all taken from song titles, "Time on My Hands," "Your Time Is My Time," "Get Me to the Church on Time," Three O’clock in the Morning," and I could go on and on. However, we all know that "Time Marches On." There is very little we can do about it.I found an article titled "Create Energy," and I thought I had found the solution to our problem — but no. Everything that has been tried would not or could not work because of these two reasons: 1. Only an individual human being can generate human energy; and 2. only an individual human being can control the energy he generates. So, you see, that takes care of that!Then I ran across this story about a clock titled "One Tick at a Time," written by Daniel L. Moodly."There was one clock pendulum waiting to be fixed. It began to calculate how long it would be expected to tick day and night, 60 times a minute for every hour 24 hours a day times 365 days a year. It was awful! Enough to stagger his mind. Millions of ticks!‘I cannot do it,’ said the poor pendulum. But the clockmaker encouraged him. He said, ‘Do just one tick at a time. That is all that will be required of you.’So the pendulum went to work, one tick at a time and it is still ticking!"Perhaps this could be our answer. Just stick to what you are doing and it will all turn out right!
