American Songwriter - Jerry Ragovoy (using the pseudonym "Norman Meade") 1963
“Time is on my side, yes it is.
Time is on my side, yes it is.
Now you all were saying that you want to be free … “
Do you have Time?
Living in cosmic time, in a cosmos, the best science can say is that an ever expanding universe, spatially, and potentially, has no edge or stopping point.
What is time?
I am writing in this message as the lyrics above suggest, time as a noun, not a verb, nor a transitive verb, nor an intransitive verb, nor an adjective. Two noun definitions appear appropriate:
a: the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues, and
b: a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future
Other definitions are applicable as well.
Some religious sects believe the Earth’s time to be near six millennia plus in age, old. I think science has a better grasp on the time the universe began. That cosmological history suggests the age of the universe is nearly thirteen point eight (13.8) billion years in existence.
I find such a number hard to conceive. So my mind melts when the Cosmologist theorize on multiverses.
A multiverse is an explanation of a phenomenon that collect multiple universes.The one comprehendible analogy that possibly explains multiverses is the fact that most all of us individually, have eight great grandfathers and eight great grandmothers to create an unique onesie, that is you or I.
Revealed
Something is going on in my life when it comes to time. I see on the digital clocks every day, almost without fail, very similar times:
1:11, 1:18, 11:11, 2:11, 8:18 AM & / or PM, an occasional 3:03. Yes, I see other times/numbers as well, however, these numbers are in the preponderance, appearing to me day after day. The occurrences suggest a cosmic time, beyond logic. Maybe a zoetic message?
Revealed, it is as if there is a communication from the cloud of unknowing that calls out the proper place to be at a specific linear time, then with a blink of the eye I acknowledge this received unveiling of space within kronos time.
The Timeshare
Stacey and I finally managed to take a wedding honeymoon trip to the Caribbean about 20 years into our marriage. It was a weeklong excursion built with memorable moments. The one most engaging experience was snorkeling in shallow waters, just the two of us, in beautifully thriving living coral reefs. As this was several decades ago, I’m not even sure that reefs remain alive.
I saw underwater a world unlike anything I had ever seen above water. Striking my inner core, the sights made me emotionally receptive to quick and sudden decisions. I bought a studio timeshare that week. We thought as our children were to be married, we would give them a week at the timeshare so that they too could experience such beauty and underwater life.
As timeshares go, negative truths that typically are associated with them, became evident.
Ongoing costs rose exorbitantly
No flexibility to change contract
Reselling a Timeshare unlikely
Aggressive marketers reign
As our acquisition intention was most appropriate, those we decided to share our time with, were not. Nor the subsidiary companies associated with timeshare developers, squeezing every dollar from shareholders, preying endlessly with tricks, schemes, and scams.
This year we abandoned the shill, …
This year we abandoned the shill, even if our unmarried son may have wanted to re-experience The Caribbean Sea.
I savor the thinking about the timelessness of God. If you the reader are an atheist, you may just want to skip the next nine questions. These questions have been posed by others, answerable by us, yes?
God lives, yes? Some say no. (I say yes).
God is omnipresent, yes?
If we do not think of God as existing literally somewhere, is it easier to think of God as standing out-side of space and creating it, yet acting within it?
God created the box, where was God when he created the box?
Where can we go from his presence?
Did God create time in the same way he created space?
If so, is he standing outside time?
What is God's relation to time?
Is God in time the way we are?
The goodness of divine revelation.
People through time have had their accounts of divine revelation shared. My favorite account is from Anthony of Padua, a Portuguese Franciscan friar of the 13th century. Anthony, the miracle worker, spoke only truth. His tongue never has decayed, the first part of the body to do so. In the mid nineteen sixties I visited the Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, Italy, and have witnessed the precious relic.
I have had one also …
I have had one, also, and the illuminated revelation points me to infinite time. It goes very much like this.
One afternoon on a very sunny comfortable day I was seeming alone, and sitting next a small pond in rural Ohio, amidst a flowering prairie field, attached to a large stand of forested trees. I was relaxed, contemplating this and that. As I sat near the water’s edge, I peered into the calm clear water and took notice of my own reflection mirrored in the water. The reflected view was of my face, and looking lower, as if looking at a bust of myself. As thoughts go, one came to mind. “I am made in the image of the divine Creator“.1
God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female* he created them.
Interesting thought.
Then momentarily a second thought quickly emerged, becoming visible, as I glanced downward toward my physical body on the grounded shore, sitting. “I have flesh, just as The Christ”.2
And the Word became flesh*
and made his dwelling among us,
In the Creator’s image, with a body made of flesh, and the sun at my back, I sit. From behind, the sunshine cast a shadow unto the water’s surface, from the form made by my body. This silhouetted shaded shadow moved in sync with my movement. A third and revelatory thought swooshed into my mind. This was a three part trifecta, thinking, “I believe that the shadow is my spirit.” 3
Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.
The culmination of thoughts led to one profound understanding as to how the timeless Trinity could be perceived and meaningfully interpreted as three persons by one insignificant human creature.
Thus a series of simple thoughts was humanly reasoned; a Creator within an Anointed One, joined with the Spirit of God and all together, three separate individuals became one. This was not unlike the reflected image, my formed body and my ghosted shadow, had become one human soul, cosmically elevated.
The above was a personal revelation, not so much meant for any kind of public dispersal. The purpose in communicating the event is meant to share a wholehearted peace about life the came to me that sun shiny day.
A deep knowledge that life has unending characteristics, these properties that are muddled and not very well explained in ordinary living. I found the key to timeless eternity in that afternoon, prompted only by awareness and observation. I knowingly never subsequently had anxiety about traversing the veil that separates the everlasting and this place.
I shed no tears to this enlightenment.
It is the hurt that comes from those who think their egos need constant attention, hurting the holy innocents. Why should unenlightened maniacs have domination over the common good of the global populace? Is a good thought enough to give in time?
Mother #Earth will have the last say on the legislators that sold their souls to allow this invasive unhuman-like species to ... frack, crack, track and sack.4
A Zoetic Message
We can worry about a lifetime if we care to do so. Those that study such habits suggests it just cuts life short, thus reducing life expectancy. We can worry about past time, that what we have done, or we have omitted to do. We can just live, and not worry. That lifestyle, just living, may be the most rewarding, what is best for the time being.
We can set time, keep time, arrange time , determine time, or beat time. In the end analysis, doesn’t it really become a matter, in the scale of time, that we choose between finite and infinite times? Finite is so limiting, infinite is full of possibilities.
Time is on my side, yes it is. How about your time, you want to be free? Let’s meet up on time.
Genesis 1:27, The Story of Creation
John 1:14, The New Testament Gospel of John
1 Corinthians 2:11 The New Testament Paul’s first letter
Author’s modified tweet, ten years hence, 2012
I try to remain acutely aware that time is passing by, thus creating more urgency to get creative work done. Momento Mori.
I can hear your father call out from the backstop as the count reached 3 balls, 2 strikes and the batter nervously awaited the next pitch, “Take your time, Paulie. Take your time. You have all the time in the world.” Believing so, I served up a fastball and the umpire barked, “Ye’errrr OUT.”