Time

December 29, 2024
 
Reflections from the Heart of Allan Redenius
Another year has raced by, and suddenly we stand at the cusp of a new year.  How I still remember sitting at my grandma's pink polka dot kitchen table, eating one of her sugar cookies with a cup of tea, and asking her, no, maybe complaining, “Why does time take so long?”  I remember well, her reply.  “Just you wait.  When you get a little older, time will go by a lot faster.”  At that moment, I didn't appreciate the wisdom of her answer.  Now that I'm older, I certainly do understand what she was telling me.  
 
Yes, as we get older time does seem to go by faster.  But the fact of the matter is, time ticks by one minute at a time as it always has.  I do have a theory about time, however.  Most of us think of time as a horizontal continuum that the measure of time travels upon, one tick of the clock at a time.  I see time, not as a horizontal continuum, but as a spiral, shaped like a funnel.  Time still advances one tick of the clock at a time.  But the closer time gets to the bottom of the narrowing funnel, the faster it travels.  The measure of time still travels at the rate of one tick of the clock at a time, but because of the narrowing of the continuum upon which it travels, the faster it seems to go by.
 
That's why as we get closer to the end of time, Bible prophecy seems to be happening in a more rapid succession.  The speed of time has not changed, but the speed at which events are happening certainly has changed.  There are a lot of events that must happen in the short amount of time that remains. 
 
As I look back, it was only yesterday that I was with grandma sitting at her pink polka dot table.  As I look forward, it will be as if tomorrow, I stand with her in glory in the heavenly realm.
 
I wonder if there are pink polka dot kitchen tables in heaven?  There has to be sugar cookies. 😊
 
Pastor Allan
 
 
 
 
 
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