life and Time

 

Life and Time go on, don't they; go on no matter what, don't they, life and Time; life in Time before, during, and after us, each of us individually, families, communities and nations of us. Again from Psalm 90, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 

Somehow, Time seems to have its own life, which of course it actually does, at least from our perspective as earthlings, as from יְהִ֣י yeh-HI - - the commanding divine word "BE" - - until the greater light, that rules our day, expands and absorbs us, and all life ends; and with it, Time.

At least here, for earthlings; there's a lot more to creation and the Universe than us, though.

There's nothing observant or profound about this notion, it may be whimsical, maudlin, even a bit goofy; but we are here for a while, a little while, and then after us, everything, life and Time, go on wherever we were as if we were never here or there at all. And maybe we never really were, except for as long as we are held in the memories of those who knew us, loved us. It's both assuring and excruciatingly painful to notice.

Making it personal for me, from 7H I look across StAndrews Bay beyond Davis Point, which the Annie & Jennie sailed around with Alfred at the end of his young life in January 1918: is Alfred still alive? He is for me, and for my Time here in life I'm making sure it's so in my memories of Mom and Pop and their stories about him, and their saying his name. Likely, after me, Alfred will be gone. But I will Be as long as someone remembers me.

"Let us create earthlings, like us let us create them, in our image let us create them, male and female let us create them" - - how is it that we are like God, in God's image? It is in our consciousness, our awareness, our feelings, love, joy, pain, happiness, sorrow, hopes, worry, imagination, mindfulness, memory. When we hurt most, grieve inconsolably, aware of the pain and even wishing that we were dumb animals without all this awareness of what is, and was, and, because of the way Time and creation are, will never be again, are we most like God.

At least, God as we know God in Jesus: agape. Grace, thoughtfulness, generosity, gracious lovingkindness, loving each other as we do.

IDK. Being a godly human is not for the weakhearted.

IDK

T 

image: from 7H, looking south beyond Davis Point at 5:59 Monday morning, 25 July 2022