‘Your time’

From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

A sign of the greatness of America: A friend, the Rev. Paul Zahl, showed me the gravestone of famed screenwriter and director (All About Eve, etc.) and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz in, of all places, among the Wasps buried in the graveyard of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Bedford, N.Y. (The building of the church, in 1807-09, was aided by Founding Father and first U.S. Chief Justice John Jay.) Mr. Mankiewicz’s last wife was Episcopalian; he came from a German Jewish background. On his gravestone are these words:

“TIME is finite! It’s your TIME now – no longer just God’s TIME – your TIME. Make it good to live in!’’

-- JLM’’