The Window into Tomorrow

What exactly is time? Is it just the passing of moment to moment and if it is, how do we know which aspects of time are the important ones? Is spending time with family just as important or more important than personal victories? How can we quantify importance and how do we determine how important our lives really are?

Surely there’s more to the things we cannot see but can perceive are there. It may be why we want to go on long strolls or just want to stare at the sky. We are waiting for something momentous to happen, we are waiting for our lives to change forever.

The things that happen to us despite their bigness see us waking up another day and what this means to me is that there is something even bigger out there to experience. C.S Lewis said “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” Another author put it this way: “Our longing for transcendence drives us to make art, to gaze at sunsets, and to enjoy relationships that seem deep, full of meaning, and eternal.”

We know something is out there for us but we just don’t know what yet. Our hearts are full of dreams and I hope they all come true but even when they do, we’ll still long for more. It’s only when I became an adult that the concept of human needs as insatiable started to make complete sense to me. There is something more.

There’s no end to our desires and that to me, is what makes life so exciting. In our search for that bigness, if we are open enough, our quest will bring us straight to the feet of the one who called Himself the living water. And because our desires are never-ending, when we find Him, we realise how much more of Him there is to discover, we relish in the bottomless well of water that He truly is.

“I was made for another world” perhaps explains why life seems to leave us breathless sometimes, why it always feels like there is some unfinished business somewhere, why we keep dreaming these million dreams.

What then is time? Is it really just the marker that tells us that one moment has ended and another began? A reminder of the breath-like nature of our lives? What we spend with family and friends that make our relationships grow? What we give to things and people to show they matter to us? A never-ending loop of existence?

The truth is that it doesn’t really matter what time is, what matters is what we eventually do with it. So, go ahead, dream those ear-tingling, head-spinning dreams and then chase after them. Be in every moment with family and friends, forego distractions and just be. Determine to only do those things that matter to you and the people you love. Give, and give some more to the ancient One who knitted you together and now beckons so that He may reveal Himself to you.

Even as we try to keep up with the spontaneity of life, let’s try to do it with the mindfulness of our assignment and the knowledge that some things will only eventually make sense at the other side of eternity.