Sitting here on a Monday morning, noting the date: July 20, 2009, I'm struck by my relationship to time, my feelings about time. Each flip of the calendar can be a moment of wonder - about the future. What is in store for me this year, this decade?
Time is lived, is passed, is gone, is remembered, is part of who I am. Never can a moment be repeated, or done over, or changed.
Will there be time in eternity? Time is marked by change, so how will this be handled? You are full of mystery and wonder; it will be a wonderful thing to experience.
Jesus, You have given me a time. It is for a certain length. You picked when I would be born and when I will mortally die. "My times are in Your hand." Thank you for the time You have given me. Some people's lives are much shorter than mine has been. Why have You gifted me with almost 56 years of time, while my friend, Cathy, was given 49? What is Your will and plan for all the minutes You are giving me? Help me to use the time for good.
Time can be wasted, endured, resented, ignored, spent, forgotten, unappreciated. And time can be cherished, valued, filled with good things, enjoyed, appreciated, planned for, learned from.
You are bigger than time. You say You are the Alpha and the Omega: the Beginning and the End. All that is, is sandwiched inside of You. Nothing can exist before You or after You. Yet You had no beginning and no end. This is so awe-full, so marvelous, amazing, incomprehensible, beyond human reasoning or understanding.
My God, there is none like You.
