Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast
Releasing Tuesday February 11,2020
Episode 29 Blog/ Time
is like Silly Putty
Time is one of
our most powerful constructions. It tells us where we are at any one moment and
in relation to where we were in other moments. It encompasses the spectrum of
All that ever was and what might be. It is a clever devise and keeps us in
order. It keeps us regular. And like the YTK moment at the beginning of the
year of 2000 it can create uproar to think we would lose it.
It is also a
quality, a sense. It is a thought and/or feeling that is responsive to stimuli, be it thought or feeling. We must work at keeping it rigid.
It has the quality of right now. It is a sense of having
existed always. It creates continuity. It is what we have made it to be and it
is not at all what we think it is. It is a projection we are generating.
Just consider how flexible we experience it. Working on a
project or test and time can drag and time can expand, and we can lose our sense of
time. It slips beyond our control all the time. It can generate pressure
working for us or against us. It can be user friendly or an enemy.
We can feel it slipping away as if it was a form to be
chased after or like the wind.
It is not rigid. Ever. That is only the form we have given
it. For we are up against it, counting on it running out so we can go on to the
next thing. It shapes our “to do” lists, our never ending “hot” file on our
desk.
There is never enough Time when you want your adventure to
continue, the physical bliss to never end. What makes it sweeter at times is
that you know it will end and always too soon.
It is precious when it is marked
with a beginning and an end as a day off or a vacation.
It can also be threatening when taking time off is marked
by the penalty of the work left, the colleagues covering, the schedule that
doesn’t adapt well.
Time is a measurement about the quality of a life. Newborn,
young, adult and aged are markers of what we have done, where we have been,
what value we have held. It tracks our development and worthiness.
It is a powerful control mechanism we have organized. Time
comes and goes so we check in and check out at the time clock. It never lies
but can be manipulated. The past, a marking of Time is always present. The
future is an assumption of Time. We have no guarantee of the future, of Time. We
only have the present, the Now.
We make Time, we take Time, we massage Time. What could be
more malleable?
Maybe it is like Silly Putty, that malleable polymer blob of our childhood.
Maybe Time is like Silly Putty. You can
imprint it, shape and stretch it and even break it into pieces.
Time is like Silly Putty to the Infinite Being.
Janet Barrett
Podcast Host of Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
