What Time Is It?
This morning, I gathered up the
palms from yesterday's service and stowed them to be burned on Ash
Wednesday of next year (March 6, if you'd like to mark your calendars).
It's rather disorienting to think about next year's Lent, when this
year's isn't even over. But I was reminded that our sense of time,
which we might call chronos, is not the same as God's, which we might
refer to as kairos.
As we await Good Friday and
Easter, we prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we
remember that these events have already occurred. Yet when the liturgy
is alive, we can feel as if we are experiencing them for the first
time. My hope and prayer is that you are alive to Holy Week, that it
all seems fresh and new to you, that you will arrive at the foot of the
cross and later at the empty tomb with a sense of wonder, grace, and
possibility.
In recent years we've come to
know a lot more about our universe, and just how strange it is. We talk
of the space time continuum, and wonder whether time must flow in one
direction. Time isn't just what we see on our watches.
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