Time 

   “But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.” (2 Peter 3: 8) 

   Our concept time is both amazing and sometimes confusing.  It seems in times of joy and happiness the hours and days fly by far too fast.  And yet in times of pain or sorrow they drag on as if they will never end.  There are sixty minutes in every hour of every day, but circumstances at any given moment seem to alter our notion of time.

   That’s why it’s important to recall the scripture in St. Peter’s second letter quoted above.  It has been just over two thousand years since Christ came as a babe in Bethlehem.  If we are to believe St. Peter, and we are, in God’s eyes that is just over two days in our understanding of time.  Even that example doesn’t explain the eternal now, but at least it gives us some idea of how God sees all things in the present moment.

   Before He ascended into heaven, Jesus told the apostles, “And behold, I am with you until the end of the age.” (Matt 28: 20).  So we are in the final age, the age in which the earth and all within it will pass away.  The age that will end with His coming in glory.  He may seem to be delaying His return, but He will return at the proper time just as He came at the proper time in the womb of Mary, our Blessed Mother.

   Time will continue until it doesn’t.  It’s not for me to know when that will be but to be prepared for it’s coming that I might be ready for His return. 

There is no time for You.

All is now.

You will come as You promised.

I pray that I am ready. 

Amen