Living in Time
That sad feeling that our vacation is almost over has hit me today. No matter how much fun we have it is always sad when it is coming to an end. At times like this I often think of what C.S. Lewis said about the timelessnes of the age to come. He said that we have never known joy untainted by time. Every joy we have ever known has been accompanied by the knowledge that it would end. The joy of youth, the pleasure of children, the goodness of a meal, the goodness of pleasant conversation with friends, we always know that it is coming to an end. When Jesus comes back we will experience joy without the limitation of time. I can't wait.
posted by Tod Brown at 12:43 PM
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Lewis also remarks about how uncomfortable we are with time. It is foreign to us. We don't understand it. We find it difficult to define. We are confounded by it. Everything we do is related to and spoken of relative to time. ("My, how you've changed since I last saw you!") This is contrasted with a fish, who was made to live in water. The fish doesn't say, "Oh, I'm wet." The fish does not know anything but water. Lewis says that our discomfort with time is due to the fact that we were not made to live in time. We were made for something else.
September 3, 2005 at 7:05 AM
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