The past is something we like to forget, but it always is there as a sign of today.

The past is something we like to forget, but it always is there as a sign of today.

Eternity contains one essence of life.  Once there we cannot view from where we came.  We become part of an existence where God already is and there is no past or future.  So when we speak of the past when we look at tomorrow our existence is still a life without the hope of peace.  

“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.”  (Gn 1: 1 - 2).  In this part of the narrative of creation we see it in the past tense.  Yet, even here eternity already was and we must correct it to mean a presence of existence.   

Today, in an understanding of total immediate presence, our only hope is of a future without confusion, a place of peace without turmoil, and a manner that erases all the senseless activity that confronts humanity.  We fall asleep at night and find ourselves in a quandary of confusion.  Upon awakening we pray things are different, but alas nothing changed.  

This is where the past becomes a look ahead to the future, but we discover the future becomes a past in the presence of pain and suffering.  Finding God in the present existence is the ultimate reality of peace that never wanes.  This is eternity and a certainty that remains constant without a past that now we won’t remember and the future will remain the present entity we enjoy and share with God.

The only sense of our day after day activities must seek to remain faithful to God.  Christ not only was Incarnated to introduce us to his Father and receive forgiveness for our sins.  His life on earth gave us a pattern that makes all the sense of a life that extends his love to everyone else that we meet and share hope with.  Our ability to take his teaching to heart is to believe and trust the faith he offers to you and me.  

When that becomes embedded within our spirit we are on our way to accept the suffering life gives us and prepare our future that will always be a present entity.  Any difficult memories of an existence that prepared each of us to meet God will disappear and we shall meet the Christ who came to bring us home to an eternal life without end.  

Ralph B. Hathaway