Wednesday, March 12, 2025
I know that I can live like there is no tomorrow. But what do you suppose that means? It means spend it. Spend time doing what you love. Spend the money in your account. Eat the food in your cupboard. Do what you enjoy. Throw caution to the wind and go for it. Time’s a-wastin’. And tomorrow never comes, but we don’t fully appreciate that truth, do we? We’ve got our pantry stocked and a few pennies for a “rainy day.”
Indeed, tomorrow never arrives and yesterday never was. So does that mean time is an illusion? Yes. You are not time, which are memories. You are timeless, which might be like perpetual forgetting. Time is marked by a moment and compared to another, but those moments are both past. The present moment, once noticed, is over. So if you mark it – you’re marking nothing. So time is really in the past – all of it. The Real Present is illusive and eternal. You are something that precedes time, a preeminence outside of its bounds.
Isaiah says to “Forget the former things.” I guess that part of you that believes it to be in time should be that part of you to forget about. If you can forget the former things, you are forever free from the trap of running out of time or of running out of anything. As beautiful as it is to “live in the moment,” you are truthfully living in the past. That’s why Jesus said, “It is finished.” Seems gloomy to think it’s over, but this is the point, to get over the idea that you are real. What’s really real, well…that’s something I can’t get into. That’s something that defies words, or what many believe to be real, the image of God.