Today

  Today was born to me another grandson. My daughter has named him Travis James. I think I shall call him TJ? New life! A life born innocent, a life not yet aware of what will be required of him. A life born with the bliss of innocence! A life filled with all wonder, a life wondrous of all that he sees, for he sees it with new eyes, eyes that have never seen such things before? It is a life that is brand new! It is a life that he will never have the same perspective on again, unless he chooses to be born again? A new life also, but a life not limited to this body of death, but rather a life filled with the wonder of not knowing anything again, a new life of innocence, a life brought also into a strange new light, a light to which like TJ, you will have to adjust your eyes to.
  And as it is with TJ, so also it is with you. For we all enter this life aware and filled with promise, but most will leave it disallusioned and lost. For even as new borns, hasn't it happened already to us? Isn't his reality already filled with discomfort and pain? He wants, he needs, though he has not yet learned how to express it. Him, you me, all of us, what is our life if not a berth of possibilities and filled with all vitality, only to age as we walk our lonely path toward old age headlong toward our end? We enter this life filled with wonder and hope, only to have that life beat us until we leave it filled by disappointment and sorrow.
  Let me explain to you what you do not understand about time. You are limited by your perspective. What I mean by this is this, If you believe that all there is is this life, will not your understanding of time be limited by what you can come to understand while in this life? What will happen to your point of view once that you have moved to the end? If you are no longer of this life, and for you this is all that there is, what would your point of refrence be then. Even if you were given more time, would those extra moments make time understandable to you? Do you understand what I am telling you, do you now see the limits of understanding time from this perspective?
  But what if you could come to believe that life is eternal, how would this knowledge change your perspective? You see, the only way to understand time is to be outside of it. Time moves forward a tick at a time, but try as it may, it can never fill Eternity. What is Eternity really? Eternity is God!