dailydatewithgod

My daily dates with God have taught me that I have a disproportionate relationship with time.  Living in a world that measures seconds and milliseconds, values time as a marker of wisdom or decrepitness, it is easy to be both influenced and confused by what time is even about.  I am aware of its relativity because five minutes in the company of a friend seems to go by too fast but feels like an eternity when it is holding a single yoga pose.  The world tells us to value the years of a couple’s marriage but not the years they each spent being single. We value the moment the insight occurs but not the amount of process time it took to be open to the insight.  We perceive change as a moment in time and begrudge ourselves in the transformation process because we are not there yet. God has taught me that seeing time as the only important marker of value causes a misperception of reality. The alchemy of change is not measured by minutes or years.  It is the alchemy which takes seemingly insignificant moments of time and creates something new.  Measuring change in our lives solely through a mind that measures time in numbers causes us to lose out on valuing the whole of life.