“Quietly difficult” is how I’ve described the past few months. No drama to speak of in particular, but a battle to thrive in any way brought on by a stream of – albeit mild – illness sapping all extra energy during the lethargy of dark winter months.
Of course, a person can still dream in the dark lethargy of winter. The image above is of a floor plan for house – a very unconventional house – that I walked into in one of this year’s winter dreams. It was still in my mind when I woke up, and I quickly realized its organic nature made it a good fit for the planet of Ponderoku.
We can dream during difficult times; we can learn during months that languish. Instead of focusing on dreams and new discoveries, however, people are prone to lament what they’re missing out on. They had plans they’re not getting done, and time is slipping away. But time isn’t the enemy, as the following quote from Randy Alcorn’s book Heaven reminds us.
“Time isn’t the problem, the Curse is. Time isn’t the enemy, death is (1 Corinthians 15:26). Time predated sin and the Curse. When the Curse is lifted, time will remain. Without the Curse, time will never work against us. We won’t run out of it. Time will bring gain, not loss. The passing of time will no longer threaten us. It will bring new adventures without a sense of loss for what must end. . . .
Theologian Henry Berkhof anticipates that time itself will be resurrected to what God created it to be:
‘Time is the mould of our created human existence. Sin led to the fact that we have no time, and that we spend a hurried existence between past and future. But the consummation as the glorification of existence will not mean that we are taken out of time and delivered from time, but that time as the form of our glorified existence will also be fulfilled and glorified. Consummation means to live again in the succession of past, present, and future, but in such a way that the past moves along with us as a blessing and the future radiates through the present so that we strive without restlessness and rest without idleness, and so that, though always progressing, we are always at our destination.’”
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