Does it bother anyone that everything is.... history? You know, that everything you tangibly experience pre-existed the moment of your experience. Everything is carried forward from somewhere prior.
Every room, every item you see, or touch, or feel...every word you speak was developed before you learned it. Every person you meet. Every show you watch...every TV you watch it on. All was there before you experienced them. Everything experienced pre-dates the moment of the experience. I am typing on a laptop manufactured 4 years ago in history. Typing words from hundreds of years ago.
In this reality how can we truly experience the 'present moment'? Our minds and imagination can transcend into the past or future. But is there any creative power to bring us into the...now? Or is it too loaded with the past to make ...unreachable?
I think maybe this is what is sought in nirvana. What Einstein wanted to say in our limits of speed. Likewise, we are limited to the past...and talk of the present in spite of all empirical evidence to the contrary.
Maybe this is where God comes in...where prayer lives. Where only a supernatural acting from outside our historical entrapment. Breaks through time and space because He created it and can do that. Breaks through and draws us into experiences of the present moment.
I guess we need to live the best we can within our limits with the benefit of experiencing the supernatural moments given to us along the way.
Wait! My five year old son wants to be spiderman...practices for it often. He doesn't acknowledge limits and seems quite happy...more than that, he appears quite certain. I need to sit at his feet awhile I think. :-)
Now what are Christian limits then if they experience moments of 'present time'. I guess I could be the Green lantern...if God wills!
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