How Time Will Tell…

Last day in May.  A week already since Memorial Day Weekend.  Six months into the new year now.  Eleven days til the big day.  Twenty-one days until the first day of summer.

I'm forever counting days, evaluating time left, time passed, time spent, time wasted, time enjoyed, time lost, time found.  TIME.  It surrounds us as an invisible yet ever-present force in our lives, unstoppable as it keeps moving at its own pace.  It's impossible to catch it, save it, make it last, re-adjust it, move it forward or back.  Time is out of our control like so many things in life.  It comes, it goes, it can't sit still.

I always think of how Father Frank once explained that for God, TIME is a continuum that He sees flash by in an instant.  To God, it's already happened, is happening, and will happen all at once.  It's as if all of time — the beginning, the now, and the end — is just one split second.  Here & gone at once.  To us, time definitely moves quite a bit more slowly than that, yet certainly still very fast.  Still too fast for my own liking.

And then, we have TIMING.  This is the most tricky part of the puzzle of TIME.  Because within this unstoppable force of TIME, the ultimate TIMING of things has to be just right in order for life to play out.  At times, we can cunningly plan the time for some things to take place at the right time.  But the majority of life simply can't be timed in this way.  

TIMING really is everything in this TIME continuum.  I've believed this the whole time, all the time.  While I still haven't figured out how to align TIME to my TIMING schedule, I have definitely learned one thing just in time:  We are all here to have a good time, the best time possible within the time we have here.  Our job is not to spend time timing it all out to go a certain way.  Our job is to make every effort to have a guaranteed good time while the time is passing us by.  And the rest?   Well, time will tell…