Time Dancing

From H.G. Wells in teleporting time machines to the biblical contemplation of ‘always was’ and ‘always will be’ time boggles our minds. To sincerely grasp the continual invisible marcher is a task that confounds even the brightest observer. We have a beginning and an end to our daily references and most of us are meticulously disciplined by our schedules which are symbiotically fused to clocks. This chronological system limits our reflection.

Our own experience as we live, think, and record it is encapsulated in a referential helmet from which we absorb, sense and process. As I eat dinner at my grandmother’s house at 9 p.m. on Sunday evening I have no sense that at the very same moment someone is just waking up to the sun’s introduction of the next day while it is now just closing on me. At midnight when I gaze at the moon’s fuzzy halo someone else has bright sunshine as we are both ahead, behind, and concurrent all in the same instance. To realize that at every moment of each day we are already in the ‘not yet’, while simultaneously also in the ‘waiting to be’, puts our ‘now’ into a mind numbing place.

Contemplating too intently on these time oddities will cause us to go from navel gazing to stellar pondering and will only bring us to a blank stage where we find ourselves tap dancing in Einstein costumes at the speed of light. Transcending time limitations is a basic characteristic of God for He is a spirit, omnipresent, infinite, and eternal. Being material, temporal, and finite makes it impossible to even dip our understanding into certain concepts, but meditating on referential relativities in our small earthly realm somehow gives us a glimpse of the Divine.

Just remember that if you do decide to learn the steps to “Tea for Two” and find yourself humming almost inaudibly while eating baby food with a straw that you were warned yesterday.