I had two step-out-of-time moments today. Do you ever have those? Where something that you're doing triggers a memory and for just a moment you're not living in the current time, but kind of outside time?
My brother has been sick these past two days, and today my mom put a pot of spiced apple cider on the stove for him. And the smell went through the entire house. As I drank a cup of spiced cider and smelled it through the house, I had one of those moments.
I went to a friends house, to visit her and chat. And then, I drove home at 11:00 at night. I love driving at night. Hardly anyone on the road, everything still and quiet. Those are always the times that I feel like Jesus is sitting next to me in the car and we are just enjoying each other's presence. That was another out-of-time moment for me, driving home in the dark and the silence.
These are the moments that I get a glimpse of what eternity will be like, when we are finally unbound from time.
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- After living in London for a year, I'm adjusting to a life full of American accents and un-scheduled tea breaks. Now I've joined the cubicle life, working for the State of California.
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There’s a certain slant of light
Emily Dickensen
There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.
Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the meanings, are.
None may teach it anything,
'T is the seal, despair,
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the air.
When it comes, the landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes, 't is like the distance
On the look of death.
Emily Dickensen
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