Time

Two ways of thinking, the of time and the way of eternity and timelessness are both part of man's effort to comprehend the world in which he lives. Neither is comprehended in the other, nor reducible to it, each supplementing the other, neither telling the whole story. - Robert Oppenheimer

A World of Time
"In the beginning..." The opening line of the most famous book in all history, heard so many times, in so many languages, by so many people has become passe. The full meaniing and significance of the phrase is seldom discerned. It is obvious that with the first words of Genisis we have been taken from the realms of the infinite and placed in a world of the finite. A world of the beginnings and endings. A world of Time. -Lynn Grant Robbins

From the moment we are born
we agree to be taken at our end
Lifted upon murmurs of the others
that we choose to leave behind
~their hoarse and parched whispers spoken softly into the safety of the night~
conversations never had
confessions uttered in the regretful honesty of lost time

We make our fall from the earth
our heavy bones starving to settle
within its cold and damp salvation
And in our last breath we leave our heaviness behind
And we are welcomed
Lifted upon wings of time high, high, high
Into the thinning elevation of the sky

From there we blink down at the world in startled dismay
Surprised by our successful survival
within the turbulent current of time
And soothed by our own vacancy
we remember back to our first breath where we choked and gulped
Taking the air into our burning and unfolding bodies
knowing precisely that this is where we first began our descent

-LAURA HUME

Please share any thoughts or quotes you have. I have been studying this theme for years. I have more I will share later. I think what I am seeking is an explanation of a God who is powerful but somehow limited by his creation of time. What do you think. Please share.

Jeannie