As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments. (Psalm 103: 15-18)

A year closes and another year begins. Our experience unfolds. We use the framework of time as one measure of our experience.

The earliest philosophers considered time an illusion. Modern physics considers time relative to place and motion. Many consider time cyclical. Others consider time to be linear.

God is that which is in the past, now, and in the future. God is a reality beyond time. God exists. In God we find our fundamental nature.

Like God we are creators. We have created time as a helpful tool. Too often the creation seems to command the creator. In our shared nature with God, we too are everlasting.

More readings on the nature of time are available at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.