Summertime is here at least meteorologically. Eighty-five degrees and the promise of more to come. It gets hot in Little Egypt.

Time rules our calendars. Seconds minutes hours and days make up our lives. It is difficult to wrap our minds around the concept of no more time. We begin as babies and if we are fortunate we end as old and bent people with dimming eyesight and mobility issues. As we arise each morning we first look at our clock. It governs our existence according to our understanding. The concept of our loved ones no longer existing is hard to fathom and that we will cease to exist is beyond our comprehension and history of our ambitious lives.

Einstein said time is a persistent illusion. We live in the box of our own observances. Life beyond our death is faith but not reality for our grey matter. So we work for a future that we are constantly reminded that we may not see. Often we feel empowered to do whatever we want and adopt the Alfred E. Newman adage ‘What Me Worry.’

What about the future. We have not been let in on The Secret. Roger Ebert the popular movie critic told his wife not long before he died that ‘It has been a big hoax,’ when he reportedly saw through the drawn curtain of life to see the other side.

Is deja vu a fluke of our brains or is it a realization that we have been there before? We look at our universe and see what astronomers tell us are images of planets and stars that have long since gone out of existence. So we view with our eyes through our powerful telescopes the past in our definition of time.

Our perception of reality is parochial. We understand the mystical mystery of life by pondering the environs of the fishbowl that we swim in. When I was a youngster if a person believed in UFO they were thought to either be a science fiction aficionado or a bit eskew. Today it is commonly believed that there is life ‘out there.’

War is a constant state of humanity’s desire to rule their brothers and sisters. We are a warlike people. We love fine art and literature and profess faith and love yet we support killing in the name of God. Are we an advanced species or still in the bassinet?

‘And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.’ Isaiah 2:4

So, God wants the lion to lay down with the lamb and yet he supports mass killing today in preparation for his Peaceable Kingdom?

Could it be that after death our guardian angel returns us to our earthly life and our family and admonishes us to enjoy the heaven that we have built…