Faith & Time

Little sweetheart, during this time in lockdown when churches can’t receive parishioners, I’ve looked for services online to observe. 

One of them - I think I was telling you about this on Holy Week - is the historical Trinity Church, way downtown near the Battery. Their online services are beautifully shot and very thoughtful. The music is lovely and I’ve come to really like some of the liturgy, as well. 

This week there was a wonderfully thoughtful sermon about Time. It’s something that is so very relevant to me, as I’m sure you know, little sweetheart. I really think there is so much to Time that mortals don’t yet perceive but that you, little sweetheart, with the angels, know to be true. 

Primarily, I have faith that all of our life that seems to have passed has not passed at all but is always and eternal and that we can zoom and linger there in The Forever, just as we can be in whatever the “now” seems to us as mortals, simultaneously. 

Phillip A. Jackson is the speaker, here, and his sermon is called “One Foot in Eternity”. It’s really rather remarkable how resonant this is to me, little sweetheart. His words are both scholarly and inspirational. 

In these difficult days, little sweetheart, I keep telling myself to simplify and just to have faith. And listen for you. I know you’re so much closer than I can imagine. 

With all my love forever.