The liturgical color for this season, which encompasses many months, is green. It's primary focus, since it's not a holy day is to turn our attention to living out Christ's instruction in our daily lives. The scripture I picked: Acts 1:7: "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." I also liked Isaiah 49:8-9 "In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'... Both emphasize our witness and responsibility, and the sovereignty of God.
The materials I used were a stainless steel watch/ and key fob made for golfers, and some standard silver plated chains. They were a little unwieldy, but I loved the idea of deconstructing a symbol & tool of time. It works in two ways- as a sign for Christ's victory over death and as a reminder that we do not possess time. It reminds me to give abundantly of the time He has given me and to in some ways not hold it as preciously (like an idol) as I do- After all we don't control it; it's not really ours, and it prompts me to inquire what exactly might God most want me to be doing in any given moment- not what I think He might want- but asking, trusting that He is leading me and that I shouldn't be stingy with it in relating to service and time with people if He is prompting me to give, or asking me likewise to retreat. We value the passing of the minutes, hours and days too much. It becomes a tyranny- whether in one moment it passes to slowly and so we become restless and dissatisfied, or overall when it has gone too fast for the match of our desires. None of what we do with it, compares to what we can do when the work of our hands is disciplined toward the death of ourselves and in service to Christ... One of the Latin phrases I like is "Tempus Edax Rerum', basically,'Time, that Devours all Things.'. . fairly fatalistic, and true but with God I have a hope that is eternal.
(You can read below to find out more about Ordinary Time.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_Time
http://www.cyberfaith.com/calendar/ordinary.html