Time in perspective

This month is my birthday month. September. The beginning of the new spring season in the southern hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the north. The privileged to experience the crisp cold evening air changing to a pleasant and light warm temperature is incredible.

This time of changing seasons is also a time of changing seasons in my families’ life. My precious adult children are moving from our South African home country to new pastures. One, over a longer period of time and one for shorter lapses.

The beginning of a new mindset, lifestyle and even approach- as new experiences shape our thinking and life.

For the past 30 years I was a mother of the two through thick and thin and whether we were together all the time or apart for brief periods our togetherness was never separated in the heart. For us, neither time nor distance played a role.

Over the last five years we invited two more precious people to be part of our team. They brought a new dimension into our closeness . The one as a father and friend and the other as a husband for my daughter. They are like the missing links and are rocks in our family. We can trust them and love them and they are now part of the us.

In the past month I went through a deep transition of wishes and expectations right to acceptance and peace of mind knowing that all will be good if we take one step at a time. Each day building memories and living and loving the moment.

30 years as a mother are not ending here but only beginning as another phase that has dawned upon my life. 

I hope for another 30 years ahead of me to taste the beauty of being a mother and transitioning into a grandmother and maybe a great grandmother. There is so much to look forward to. Many beautiful seasons of change.

However, the concept of time has often puzzled me. Why would wonderful times fly past and times when things are hard and dark drag like a weight behind us. 

It’s like happiness and joy is light and breezy nearly like floating in the evening sky of a September evening, whilst sadness is heavy and pushes you into the ground, like a deep dark frozen winter. 

Time and feelings seem to be connected. 

Time has never been my friend because it eludes me. It slips away like a transparent veil unfolding the future but by bit, sometimes slower and sometimes faster. Every word I type is a second-gone. Every minute spent in a moment of bliss is worth holding onto - but unfortunately, the next moment of bliss needs to be stretched too. The terms “late” and “early” are both explaining the limit of time. If you miss a plane or appointment you are late.

I often wonder if lateness is a way of trying to stretch out the time. Or if one lives in the moments too deeply. And thereby missing the next moment. Some moments feel like billion of years and some like a split of a second. 

Looking at timelines of space explorers and geologists that speak about billions of years since the earth was created and the time of the future, makes me wonder how the time is measured in the spiritual world. There must be some kind of a system which measures periods of our lives, night and day and some kind of deadline or beginning line for phases.

Every year in September new things begin and this year it’s transition time. It’s easier to cling to the moments, as they are what we have, but leaving and letting them go will exponentially build new moments to look forward to.

God said that to him time is fluid. A thousand years can be one day and one day be like a thousand years. I’m sure he meant that happy times fly as if they were one day but sad days be like a thousand of them at once. 

How well described is this expression of time? So figurative and yet so logical and true. 

May your happy moments be en-longed and your sad moments shortened. May you see the rise of many beautiful times and may your happiness be complete in the thought that God is our biggest rock and time keeper and as the universe is art of a perfect time schedule so are we. Each family a small solar system in the bigger picture. Apart yet together as the energy of attraction becomes stronger the further they float apart. 

I am looking forward to the next moment of happiness and know that my inner strength from God will get me through hard times too. 

Rock on. Dance the moment and trust in the creator who keeps everything in tact. 

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