Tim Samoff // Weblog

I’m really not in the mood to make an initial entry on my Blog. Initial Blog entries are usually brief. They introduce the writer and welcome the readers. The thing is, I’ve been dealing with installing MoveableType (what runs this Blog) on my server for a few days now and after finally getting everything to work smoothly, I’m a bit…spent. But the day goes on no matter how I feel.

Today didn’t quite proceed correctly either. After Morning Prayer this morning, I was supposed to drive over the the Independence Municipal Court and take care of a traffic violation, but I completely spaced and forgot. I hope I can get in tomorrow.

Morning Prayer was fruitful and I think it pertains to how I began this post. For the last week, or so, my invitations have all had something to do with time and how we, as humans, judge it on a much different level than God does. Here on Earth, everything seems to move so slowly. But what is a day, a year, 100 years to God? Nothing. These periods of time are but a quick blink of the eye to the Allmighty. Why then, is patience so difficult for us? Why do temporary bouts of suffering take up so much of our existence and…time?

Time is something that I am going to try to conquer — not scientifically, not metaphysically, but mentally and, hopefully, spiritually. God desires us to seek Him at all times. He desires to give us abundant life. Ultimately, He desires us to be in total communion with Him. To God, in His sense of time, this has already happened. To us, it will remain a process. Whether this process finds one of us dead later on this afternoon or still toiling 60 years from now, to God, if we are seeking His kingdom, we are already with Him. I’d like this concept to be a part of who I am. In the here-and-now of my own human understanding, I’d like to know that time doesn’t matter. I’d like to know that anything I go through, here on Earth, is already a fleeting memory.