Christmas is past and Ash Wednesday beckons, which will begin the season of Lent. It all goes so fast. We all can remember that when we were kids, time seemed to just creep by, especially when school seemed to just on forever. Even the last five minutes before recess seemed to take an hour. But now, days fly, seasons change with alarming rapidity, and years melt into one another.

It is difficult therefore for we “mere mortals” to understand a concept like the timelessness of God. For us time is something that moves, fast or slow. For God h o w e v e r , t i m e i s nonexistent. For God, the beginning of time and the ending of time are all one picture; without a start or a stop.

Imagine then, being in God’s unending time; in a time where there isn’t any time. This is what it must be like when we die and go into God’s presence. We too get to see all of time from beginning to end. For us, those we leave behind when we die, are already with us without a moment of separation. For us, the whole spectrum of eternity lies out before us without ending. Imagine that.

But for now, we are caught in time. We experience days and months, years and decades. But one day, time will cease to be anything to us as we live in the presence of God.

See you in church

~Roy