The Yes Between the Constant Ticking

These are the kind of things that sit on my kitchen countertop.

It’s because of a simple yes, a repeated and continual yes, a sacrificial and surrendered yes.

Time doesn’t stand still, not when we want it to, and we cannot even will it to. It continues with the same rhythm and fervor as always, pushing us to the next thing, the next task, the next meeting, event or holiday. Time is not always in our favor. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it’s like a screaming gear that needs to be oiled.

Time is ticking, and ticking it must.

But life, it pauses and pushes play again…and then eventually, one day, it halts. It stops. In some cases it comes to a screeching halt; in others, a fading whisper, and then a final breath.

Life is different from time. But we are often ruled by the ticking of the clock rather than living a life with pauses.

But life, although it stops, it carries on into an eternal life. One that we know not yet what exactly it will look like, except we know there is one. Eternity WITH the ONE who created all things or eternity WITHOUT the ONE who created all things.

When we say yes, what is it that we are saying yes too?

Let your yes have value both here and for eternity…