Drivel I wrote for my kids to ponder…
Today
by David Pyle
Today was the first and last time I would ever awaken on December 12, 2014. This day appeared, I was alive, and it would never come again. In this finite time-line, all of creation is pushed ever forward by an unseen wall called TIME. At six a.m., the clock alarm went off and mere moments later a minute had passed, never to be reclaimed, never to be changed, and barely remembered.
This simple revelation of truth can be received two ways – a cavern of depression, or a bonus incentive to live every second while you can.
When the supreme universal hourglass was flipped at the moment of all creation, there were only a finite number of grains of sand inside the upper chamber. Time cannot last forever, yet forever will last beyond time. Thankfully, our hope and consolation is eternal life.
But what of now? What of today? Life is more than waking, eating, working, scrambling, sleeping, and beginning the sequence again every day of our lives.
The element of life is above mere existence.
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