Time, Time, Time…

Time…Time…Time…It is a part of everything.

Within its arms, Fathertime never stops.

Life, death, history, joy, tragedy, advances, regrets…all are in constant motion.

No power on earth can slow it, stop it, alter it.

It continues one second at a time, building a foundation into minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, centuries, to build millenniums.

The ages come and go as falls give way to winters.

Lifetimes turn into mere specs of time.

Lives ancient by our ways who never saw the dawn of modern times haunt us from the past with the question,

“Were they better off having lived in a safer, less complex, time?”

Sin knows no barrier of time for it transcends time.

It was there in the heart of the primitive man and his club, the archer facing the castle for ill gain,

and the munitions expert firing a missile with an ill heart just as it was and is today in the heart

of he who cheats his measurements of goods by scales with the counterweight of rocks,

then iron, and now electronics.

Though there are forbidden fruits today, sin comes from the heart

and as time is built into millenniums by seconds,

the monstrous sins of the present were built one sin at a time.

The accumulation of sin is amassed to the point when in another time

God sealed the door of the Ark.

Oh door of our time…where are you but in the opening of Our Lady’s mantle.

Noah’s ark that saved mankind physically; and afterwards,

the new covenant and the Ark that saved us spiritually, bring us through time, to “another time”,

where the Ark of today will save us “physically” and “spiritually”.

The Ark is Our Lady, and yes, what better time to live than now

in answer to the question from ancient man:

“Were others better off living in a simpler time?”.

All through time, “history” is continually teaching us this:

as for our time; that the more severe the test

the greater will be its reward for the victorious.

It’s a glorious time to live.

We sit in the front row seat of the amphitheater of time.

The age of peace is on the horizon,

the invitation to be under Our Lady’s mantle, our Ark, is the open door.

Time doesn’t exist in Heaven.

How privileged are we to gaze in the face of a visionary where time doesn’t exist,

for while “we” remain in time, “they” are outside of space and time right before our eyes.

Everything stands still.

Existence, minus time, is before us.

No,…voice of ancient man cannot haunt he who stands in the face of time where it doesn’t exist.

If Our Lady tells us by living Her messages we can begin to experience Heaven upon earth even

before we get there, are we then also already beginning to transcend time, beginning to live eternity before this passage from this life to the next? Look at time.

Whose lives, though just mere specs in time, changed the whole world towards good?

Span the centuries.

Who are those who have left and continue to leave the greatest imprint towards good upon the ages?

It is God’s saints.

Even though their lives were brief, compared to a millenium,

it is their witness that lives not only in time,

but outside of time as well.

Everything else passes, yes, even time will die.

Therefore, what you do along the way will make an imprint and when you go,

as the leaves today are green, tomorrow yellowed and gone, what remains is how you lived.

Not the lofty, illustrious and elevated, but the meek and humble will be remembered

throughout eternity, passing love from one heart to another, generation after generation,

until the last man draws his last breath,

touched by you, transcended into eternity.

Do look at time, as ages after ages slide by, oh man, and begin to live eternity now,

Not bound by time, as one is not bound to this world.

As Our Lady said, by living Her messages we will not feel the passage

from this life to the next, so too, we will also begin transcending time

into eternity while still upon the earth by our holy lives and virtues,

all of which are recorded for ages to come,

even if hidden and known only by the angels who record them for forever.

Every virtuous act will be known through eternity by all, when all ages pass.

The passage through time and beyond has only one key to unlock it.

Love.

Yes, Love…Not human love,

rather Love “expressed” by “obedience” to all of God’s Commandments.

For if love saves, obedience preserves, not only in time,

but when time is no longer.
 

by A Friend of Medjugorje

( Time, Time, Time

written September 1999 by A Friend of Medjugorje )