Now...

It's 8.15 pm on a Sunday night, the eve of Black Monday. I'm here at the lab clad in a round-necked T-shirt, Bermuda shorts and slippers. Actually, I planned to have packed dinner from the Sungai Nibong pasar malam but apparently there was no pasar malam tonight. So, I ended up in Sungai Dua eating in at the shop. I'm here straight from dinner and hence my informal attire.

Tomorrow will actually be not so Black for me. It will definitely be an opening of a new chapter in my campus life. Firstly, it will be a welcomed change from the days of my industrial training. Secondly, it will mark the first day of, God willingly, my final year as an undergraduate.

I guess, everything we do is bounded by time. We make appointments. We set datelines. We rush for this and that. As we progress, there seem to be less time in our hands. So, why can't we make more time knowing that time was man-made, in a way, in the first place. Why bother so much about time?

Actually, come to think of it, there is no time in a spiritual sense. Everything is 'now'... a very, very long (if I may use the word) 'now'. If I remember correctly, Ira Progoff (I hope I got the spelling right) wrote about an 'eternal now'. I believe that when we sing the song 'In His Time', we actually mean that God makes all things beautiful, now. As humans, we experience things happening to us in a worldly dimension of time. But actually God has already made things happen, now.

We very often dilute the intensity of God's power and glory by trying to understand His work. Maybe that's what I'm even guilty of now. Ha! Ha! So, the best way to understand His work is not to understand His work. That's where the song 'I Stand In Awe' comes in... He is beautiful beyond description...

Now, now,
Bart