Saturn Return
Posted on Thursday, August 02 @ 13:41:18 PDT by Virgil |
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donovan submitted: "How old are you?
What time is it?
When is the next bus downtown?
If there is one thing that we as humans are good at, it’s counting. And we are very good at counting time in particular. Time orders our days, our weeks, our age, our lifespan, our generations, our eras and so on. From what time you ate lunch today all the way to how old you will be in ten years, humans have been tracking the continuum of time since, well, since time began. Time however is really just that, a necessary human counting machine and as the present becomes the future, this machinery becomes more and more important in ordering our lives.
Ancient civilizations observed solar and celestial bodies’ movement as a way of counting forward into the future and as a way of cyclically remembering events as they related to their way of life, even living itself. Today, this reasoning is no different. Our methodologies may have changed, but we count rotations and revolutions of our planet just like they did thousands of years ago to bring order to our lives and our world.
It takes the planet Saturn 30 earth years to orbit the sun one time, so technically if I were living there, I would still be a baby. But one night while asking God about what this meant, that I, being 30 years old had seen many friends and family come and go from this planet, many dreams realized and forgotten, many people hurting and helping me along the way, I was reminded that this really had only meant that the earth had circled the sun 30 times since my mother had birthed me that cold winter morning. My appearance had changed, my experiences multiplied, my wisdom increased, but nothing more than planetary circles had counted my steps.
“God,” I asked, “weren’t you the one who brought me into this world? Weren’t you the one who ordered my steps? Why after 30 years, would it appear that something has escaped my calling?”
And God answered, much to my surprise. See I, like you, do not hear from God in a clear way all too often. What made that night different I do not know.
“My ways are not your ways,” said the Great I AM. “The times your sphere has circled its star are your own measurement, your own equations and your own expectation. I brought you into this world neither in winter nor summer, not in a century nor a year, but in my time. You have touched those in my family whom I wanted you to reach, you have seen the things that I have wanted you to see, you have been helped and challenged by those whom I had foreseen to aid and trouble you in my time and in my world.”
When were you born? In the 50s?, the 60s?, the 80s? We measure time with numbers, but God measures your life with people. Some will challenge, others will help. Some will hurt, others will uplift. Some you will aid, some you will disappoint, but if nothing else, know this- you are here, right now for somebody. Your age, your “number” is nothing more than how many times the earth has circled its star, nothing more. Being 20, 30 or 40 is just as important as being 10, 80 or 100.
Time will change you, but it will not change God and His plan for His family. We are great at counting time. But even more demanding, more important and more essential we must be great at counting lives. "
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