Friday's thoughts

"It's Just a Matter of Time"

We are caught between the sense of the temporal and the sense of the eternal. We work and live between those two extremes and we are happiest if we are aware of both.

The sense of the eternal gives us the understanding that everything has consequences on a broad range; some of which is way beyond our understanding. We live our time on earth and the implications are way beyond our knowing. Most of the good we do we only catch a glimpse of during our lifetime. It takes eternity to measure our accomplishments.

The sense of the temporal gives us the understanding of the brevity of our existence and encourages us to live in the moment and to live the moment to the fullest. We strive to make certain we miss nothing. We invest ourselves in the time we have so that we do not lose it or overlook it.

The temporal gives the eternal a flavor for the time we have at present so we will not fail to live it. The eternal gives to the temporal the holiness of a destiny that knows any present futility can be redeemed in the years to come.

Eternity allows us to accept a failure with the belief that anything can change in the distant future. We may be wrong in the judgement of others but, if we are just ahead of our time, being wrong makes us ultimately right. We can celebrate that.

Temporality gives us an opportunity to experience the depth and height of the goodness of life while we are able to be present in a moment even if the moment is fleeting.

Temporality and eternity are opposite ends of a spectrum but important elements in a happy life.

It is not easy to maintain that tension between the two but it is important to work at it.

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Charles Schuster