Dear friends, Thank you for being part of the Rosewood Café, I love you all and can’t wait for our next time together on Friday, Sept. 25!
Please read…
Psalm 116-118, 136 & 146. Write down descriptive words for “God” from these passages.
Please ponder…
OK, ladies—we’re going deep! This description of time was confusing to me until I read it a couple of times. There’s no quiz, please just read it and we’ll talk more about it.
Time consists of three dimensions: Past, Present and Future. We cannot experience Time in any other way. Time comes out of the future, through the present, then into the past. The Future is the source. The Future is unseen and unknown – except as it continually makes itself visible in the Present. The Present is what we see and hear and know. The Present is ceaselessly embodying the Future, day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. It is perpetually revealing the Future, hitherto invisible. The Future is logically first, but not chronologically. For the Present exists as long as Time exists, and is coexistent with Time. Time acts through and in the Present. Time makes itself visible only in the Present. It is in the Present that the Future becomes a part of human life, and so is born and lives and dies in human life. The Past, in turn, comes from the Present. The Past does not embody the Present. On the contrary, in issuing from the Present into the Past, Time becomes invisible again. The Past proceeds silently, endlessly, invisibly from the Present. But the Present is not the source of the Past which proceeds from it. The Future is the source of both the Present and the Past. The Past issues and proceeds from the Future, through the Present. The Present therefore comes out from the invisible Future and perpetually and ever-newly embodies the Future in visible, audible, livable form, and returns again into invisible Time in the Past. The Past acts invisibly. The Past continually influences us with regard to the Present. It casts light upon the Present. That is the great function of the Past. The Past helps us to live in the Present which we know, and with reference to the Future which we expect to see.
Here is the side-by-side comparison of Time: Past, Present & Future with God: Father, Spirit & Son.
Here is the slide presentation:
