Meditating to Heal

Time and the Future

Is our future determined only by time?

I realize that our lives are run by the clock. Alarms awaken us in the morning and the late news puts us to bed at night. If we are employed, we are controlled by the train or bus schedule, when the next meeting is, our lunch with a client, then schedule phone or zoom calls. This repeats itself day after day. Our lives run like a clock. Or do they?

Now I realize that I am retired, but if I allow it, the clock can determine my life. I still have meetings, many on zoom. My doctors appointments and therapy sessions, both physical and mental, are frequent; and my yoga classes at the local YMCA are on a schedule. The clock may not control my life as it was when I was teaching, but it still tends to dictate my week.

But let us ignore (if possible) all of these minor distractions and concentrate on something much more important and much more agreeable to ponder and to place in the forefront of our thinking. We are not just mortal! Putting the efforts of Galileo and Christiaan Huygens aside, which govern our mortal body, it is our spiritual side, the eternal side, that should not be determined by time.

Our spiritual beings are eternal; they always were, and they always will be. To really enjoy our lives, we have to open ourselves to something greater than ourselves. As a youth, I often climbed the stairs of the apartment building we lived in, climbed the short ladder to the roof, and lay myself down to gaze at the stars at night. . . and dream. Now I go to my back yard, sit in my picnic chair and look up. I no longer dream because my over-educated mind is in awe of what is above me. I am in awe of the vastness of God’s creation and how small I truly am.

But then I overthink my existence and realize that if God did truly create me, and He did, then I am just as important to God as everything I see in the sky, the billions of stars seen and planets not seen. There is not one thing out there greater than I am nor I greater than anything out there. This is a dynamic thought! I write a lot about love, because God created me in a moment of spiritual and physical love. God is Love; therefore, I am love.

With Love, there is no past; there is no future; there is only the present, and the present is eternal.