Eternal Day

Life is one Eternal Day. Grasping this concept has not been easy and I must confess I work on it time and again. Basically there are two ways to measure time, chronological- using numbers to count the days or Kairos which literally means the “right or opportune moment,” or Divine time.

We have heard that even Albert Einstein concurred late in life that the past, present and future all exist simultaneously. He had already proven that time was relative not absolute like Newton believed. Later scientist Richard Feynman developed an interpretation of the quantum mechanics describing time as simply a direction in space. Professor Stephen Hawking has sense developed a theory, entitled “Imaginary Time” in which time has no boundary. “It would just BE.”

For me the question is not when does time begin and end but the challenge of living in the divine present moment. I know a man who just learned that he has at least two aneurisms that could explode at any time. A prestigious university hospital has told him to go home and live his life as usual; come back in six months and they will rethink surgery. Has this man been given a gift that is a blessing or a curse? Every day he will wake now knowing that something inside his body could at any instant stop time as he sees it ending his life. But then, the aneurisms were there before he knew of them. Why is it different; because he now knows about them? I wonder can he live each day as both the last day of his life and at the same time the first day of the rest of his life. But isn’t that we are all called to do every day? -To live each day fully and completely.

So if life is one Eternal Day with no beginning and no end; no past, no present; no future then what is life? It is timeless. And when we put down the burden of time, live in the present moment then we are making room for grace. Grace is living in a timeless trust in God in the here and now – the moment – this one Eternal Day. And the real challenge for me is am I strong enough to wake each day and not only say, “This is a good day to live!” but also say, “This is a good day to die.”