Present Time or Time Present?

The present is the point in which time touches eternity.
C.S. Lewis

I think I see what C.S. Lewis means. In eternity it is always NOW. There is never a yesterday, and there will never be a tomorrow, it is always just simply NOW.

What is time anyway? Lately for me, it is something I don’t have enough of; and for us as a collective whole I think it is something we are running very short of.

The true definition depends on who you ask. Stephen Hawkins and Einstein differ widely on their view of time and there are a multitude of explanations for time in the dictionary, but to put it into the simplest of terms, it is the space between the beginning and the end. I say that because after all the theories and hubalub, I believe time is a temporary thing created just for us. I don’t believe time existed before God created us and I don’t believe it will continue after we are gone. It is what we do between our personal beginning and end or with the time He has given us that matters.
We are all citizens in eternity. We are a world of self serving Eternal beings squandering our place in Gods Kingdom for what we hold today. A "fool’s treasure", that will disappear like the morning mist at the dawn of eternity.

I thought about how to relate time and eternity to each other after I woke up from a very realistic dream. I don’t remember the dream, but I will never forget the dawn of my new realization afterwards. The dream was so real that I felt like I could touch, feel and breathe every thing that was happening. It was so real that when I woke up it took me a minute to realize that I was only dreaming and that I had woken back up into the reality that is my life. Have you ever had a dream that strong? I think that the feeling I had after the dream is very close to the feeling we will have when we step into eternity.

Imagine if the life we are living is the dream… everything we know, see, feel or do is all part of the dream that God created just for us. (Our Time Present) For now it is our reality… but then… time ends, and we wake up! And the reality that exists outside of the dream (eternity) becomes the reality that is our life. And we find our selves stepping into and beginning our new life in eternity. I can’t begin to fathom eternity, but I know that when I am in it, I will have more than enough of what I don’t have enough of now to do, see, talk to and walk with, anything or anyone I want.

I know we can’t understand eternity, but I heard a very good description once. Imagine if all the sands from all the beaches of the world were piled into one gigantic earth sized mountain and once every one thousand years a small bird fly’s to the top of the mountain, picks up one tiny grain of sand and fly’s away. When the bird has finally removed the last grain of sand… eternity will have just begun.

How and where you will spend eternity is directly related to how you spend your gift of time today.

Today choose to trade ALL of what you can not keep for what can never be taken away. Life is too short to waste and eternity is too long for regrets.