Poetry

Time is Mercy

by Terry Barlow
06/27/23
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  We couldn't bear to live our lives all at once .Thus time is a major form of mercy. And this moment is the seat of that mercy. And so now is potentially the holy of holies. Through the merciful illumination of His Holy Spirit God breaks down His revelation light for us progressively into bearable bite-sized chunks. If I saw all of my life and all of the truth learned in my life in one flash, it would kill me. Similarly, if I lived all of my life and all the purpose and meaning of my life in one instant, I would disintegrate. 

  But that won't always be the case. Occupying our Resurrection bodies, we will have the capacity both to see and to live all of our lives in one moment, and then to move on as the same persons being transformed in new lives and in new ages to come. The splitting of the atom of space was a prophecy of what will be the splitting of the atom of time, exploding forever into eternity.