November 13, 2006
The days pass unnoticed at times. Morning arrives, and then suddenly nighttime returns. Minutes turn quickly into hours, hours into days, days into months and months into years—and before we can reflect on it, this time is gone forever.
At times many of us desire to hold on to the past and carry it into the future. However, this is impossible. People change, situations change, life changes, and the older we get, the faster life seems to pass by.
We must surrender the past, whether it is good or bad, to God’s love and mercy by letting go. How else can we find God, Who is in the present? Though time passes quickly and without an apology, God remains—the one thing that does not pass away. I am convinced part of the joy of heaven will be worshipping and adoring God with all those we have known and loved without time to “interrupt” us. Yet for now we must be patient with this “interruption” called time, use it as the gift that it is, and draw closer to God through it.
Br. Jeremiah Myriam Shryock CFR
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