Time
I stumbled upon the following passage in my Family Life book and found it especially profound... I'm not entirely sure why.
"We are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in the water, we are clearly not at home in time -- because we belong to eternity. Time, as much as any one thing, whispers to us that we are strangers here."
-Neal A. Maxwell
Perhaps because it rings so true. I spend all of my life waiting for something else to happen, or wishing time would stand still so I can drink in the happy moments longer, or dreaming of the past or future. Every moment is precious, but it's so hard to remember that. And now I (sort of) understand why. Even though we have lived with time for our entire mortal state, it's still a foreign state of being.
Then again, we can't comprehend eternity either, so it's kind of like we're stranded in a foreign country and we can't remember what home was like. Then someone comes and tells us a little bit about it (plan of salvation), but we still don't really get it until we make it back. And then we'll probably wonder how we ever could have not understood it. (Just like in class when I finally put all the puzzle pieces I've been handed together and everything suddenly makes perfect sense.)
"We are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in the water, we are clearly not at home in time -- because we belong to eternity. Time, as much as any one thing, whispers to us that we are strangers here."
-Neal A. Maxwell
Perhaps because it rings so true. I spend all of my life waiting for something else to happen, or wishing time would stand still so I can drink in the happy moments longer, or dreaming of the past or future. Every moment is precious, but it's so hard to remember that. And now I (sort of) understand why. Even though we have lived with time for our entire mortal state, it's still a foreign state of being.
Then again, we can't comprehend eternity either, so it's kind of like we're stranded in a foreign country and we can't remember what home was like. Then someone comes and tells us a little bit about it (plan of salvation), but we still don't really get it until we make it back. And then we'll probably wonder how we ever could have not understood it. (Just like in class when I finally put all the puzzle pieces I've been handed together and everything suddenly makes perfect sense.)