What do you know? Leap Year Day falls on a Thursday so I get to write an extra blog this month. It doesn’t happen often. 1996 was the last one and it won’t happen again until 2052, so I’m unlikely to have to deal with it again. Leap years used to drive the liturgical calendar planners nuts. There was a rule that St. Mathias Day was to be celebrated six days before March 1 which normally meant it was February 24, but in leap years it moved to February 25.  (The problem doesn’t arise in most liturgical churches anymore since St. Mathias Day got moved to May 14.)

Fooling around with clocks and calendars always confuses me. Since my Social Security is paid monthly and this month has an extra day, I feel like I’ve gotten gypped. Then again February still has fewer days than January or March so I’m usually money ahead. Or am I?

What does one do with an extra day in a year? Maybe this quote sometimes attributed to Martin Luther helps: “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” If you have a day, use it. Use it to the glory of God the way every day should be used. I think that’s a good way to go about life. We don’t have to wait until Sundays to pray or do a good work. Every day is God’s gift to us and should be lived accordingly.

May you glorify God on this extra day.

Read 1 Peter 4:11 and remember: God loves YOU unconditionally.

Wayne