The Heart's Cry: Psalm 62

Psalm 62

Those of low estate are but a breath,
    those of high estate are a delusion

I was reading a book just yesterday that was talking about time and how it is a mere illusion, that we created the concept so that we could better organize our experiences and memories. The author stated that only now exists, an ever present moment, and this is how God can see all of 'time' now.

A couple months ago I sat in a meeting with some people whose job it was to decide whether or not I was deserving of ordination and among other things we had a conversation about time. One person suggested that time was a creation, to which I replied 'in my mind time is the space between moments and there had to be some kind of space between moments even before the creation of the world'. But what if there is not?

In verse 9a above it is suggested that there is little, if any, difference between the wealthy and the poor and in truth the only difference in today's world is a combination of ones and zeroes that say how much wealth one person has in relation to another person. A twist of fate and the rich person becomes poor or the poor person becomes rich, so is there any difference between them in reality?

Jesus says that God causes the sun to shine and the rain to fall on both the just and the unjust. What's interesting is that we instinctively believe that the sun shining is good and the rain falling is bad, but without rain or with too much sun we would not have food to eat. Some people are allergic to bees, but without bees how would plants pollinate? I have friends who can't stand spiders, but they eliminate insects better than Raid.

So what? What if all boundaries are in our mind? What if there is no space between my first tooth coming in and the moment I lost my first tooth and the moment I got my first [and so far only] filling and the moment I can't eat cheesecake ever again? What if there really is only now, and so there really is no need to worry about tomorrow because tomorrow is a boundary that doesn't exist, but today has enough worry for itself because now is all we ever have anyway?

And if none of that blows your mind, nothing I say ever will.