dailydatewithgod

We have an interesting relationship with time.  We act as though it is fixed the way we measure it with numbers but our experience of it is not so fixed.  Time is relative and according to Einstein so is space.  There is a strong relationship between the two because often our understanding of space and time is as one unit.  It is hard for us to gauge exactly how to experience time because we view it mostly in comparison to something else.  We talk about how time passes as if it is a thing.  We say we wish we had more of it as if we could possess it.  We see it fly by like a bird or move slowly like a pot waiting to boil.  We speak of waiting in time or speeding it up as if we control it.  We use the concept of time to convey our ideas and experiences of what it means to be living and breathing in this world. We see time in a clock or on a stopwatch in terms of numbers but it is not numbers that pass it is our life experience.  The deeper question is how much of our life experience is about the time it takes for something to happen or what it means to be in the moment.  We forget the value of the moment we are in because we are busy searching for and worrying about what comes next.  So much so that we are not in the moment we are in, we are in the next moment.  The funny thing is no matter how much we worry, get excited, or think about the next thing, it is still the next thing.  Looking back on our lives how many nexts would we want to trade for nows.  I try and remember that when I catch myself pushing to get to the next thing or thinking about the next event.