Ever since I was about 11 years old the concept of time always fascinated me, I even started collecting quotes and poems on the subject.
For instance this is one of my favorite poems from a book called If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodsoon: “This is how time moves an hour here and day somewhere and then its night and then its morning. A clock ticking on a self, a small child running to school, a father coming home. Times over us and past us and feeling of lips pressed against lips fade into memory. A picture yellows at its edges, a phone rings in an empty room. Time comes to us softly slowly. It sits besides us for a while. Then long before we are ready it moves on.”
I may have enjoyed this quote because I love over dramatic things however I also love the concept of time because it is incredibly fleeting, the thought that the last sentence I just wrote is part of the past is incredible.
I remember missing the bus on a freezing cold winter day, the kind of cold that just seeps into your bones and hurts no matter how many layers you have on. I started getting really anxious because it was so cold and I just wanted to go home, so the way I calmed myself down was thinking that in an hour or so I would be in my warm house.
It’s just amazing to me how vivid and real life is like the “feeling of lips pressed against lips” a hug, or even a conversation may be but in a matter of days it fades away and our days turn into memories. Even though it is a bit depressing it’s also beautiful to know that if you are ever in pain or suffering a problem there will always be brighter times ahead of you and all the bad stuff will just feel like a memory.
“…And then its night and then its morning.”
-Angela Garcia
P.S. The beautiful picture at the top of my blog is by an amazing photographer who I recently found named Justine S. Check out more of her work here: http://neyle.deviantart.com/
I love this! When I was little Daddy told me, "God created time." And now I laugh at myself, but I thought then, "How long did it take Him?" Kinda shows how much we're imbedded in time...or at least how one queer girl is imbedded in time...
ReplyDeleteIt's fascinating that God can create something so incredible as time and still be above it. It's like writing a story: when you write a story, you create your own time in your own world. Only God's story is so much more action-packed, complex, sad, beautiful, hilarious, sweet, and over-dramatic all at the same time.
I could go on and on about how C.S. Lewis talked about this in the Screwtape Letters, but I won't. I'll leave you wondering about it and then you'll go crazy and simply HAVE to read it. ;-)
The odd thing is, how did God create time? Like,... things would have to be thought of in a way that literally makes my brain explode. It almost makes me think that time has to be something thats almost instantaneous with God. Like, a by product of his existance. At least to the eye it would be that way, because if he existed before He created time, then the "existance" before he created time wouldn't matter in the big scheme of things, because the net of it would equal 0. You gettin what I am sayin here?
ReplyDeleteThere are two things that have always baffle me one is time and the other is how God has always existed. Its just completely mind blowing because we live in a world with time and where everything has its beginning and its end. Everything He does never ceases to amaze me.
ReplyDeleteLol I see what you're saying, notdeceived. Saying God did not exist before time again is a paradox in and of itself. If He did not always exist, then that means there was a time when He did not exist, and thus He could not of created time. And so I see what you're getting at--but I would have to believe that God did create time. The Bible says God existed before time began (which seems a bit ironic in and of itself because it uses terms that refer to time). He always was, always is, and always will be--time cannot touch Him. I honestly have no clue how this all works, but then again our minds are created and bound by time. But God also says in His Word that He "set eternity in our hearts"--meaning that while we are in time here on earth, we want forever with Him.
ReplyDelete