+ Time

Grace and Truth + Time = Growth

From our vantage point, time is present experience. The only time we have is whatever we are experiencing at the present moment. Going forward or back in time is impossible. Right this instant is the only place where we can ever live. When we truly live in time, which is where we are now, we are present with our experience. We are present in the “here and now.” We are aware of our experience. If we are not aware of our experience, or are not experiencing some aspect of ourselves, that part is removed from time and is not affected by it.

Change only takes place in “good time.” Good time is time in which we and our experiences can be affected by grace and truth. If we have removed some aspect of ourselves from time, grace and truth cannot transform it. Whatever aspect of ourselves that we leave outside of experience, that we leave in “bad time,” goes unchanged. Grace and truth cannot affect the part of ourselves we won’t bring into experience.” Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: The Four Shifts That Make Everything Better…And That Anyone Can Do

So, “good time” is the time when we are present in the moment. That’s where grace and truth find us. That’s where change happens.

“Bad time” is the time where we are focused on regretting the past or fearing the future. Grace and truth were there in the past and will be there in the future, but we are in neither past nor future. We are only “now.” That is where our Life is. God is also in the past and God is in the future, but the place where He meets us is “here and now.”

Help us to remember that our days are numbered,
and help us to interpret our lives correctly.
Set your wisdom deeply in our hearts
so that we may accept your correction.
Psalm 90:12 The Passion Translation