Time

For something to start, something must finish

To have a now we must say goodbye to before

For tomorrow to come we cannot continue with today

The past is always gone, never to reappear 

The future is always just beyond our reach

We cannot stay the same, we are always changing

The world we once knew has drifted away 

And the world we now know will one day do the same

Our view of the past and our view of the future are always unclear

We can never accurately report on what has gone before

Nor can we accurately predict what is to come

The former and future are always hidden in the gloom of time 

Not even today is really clear

We are a tick of a clock in a stretch of time

We are a moment in the life of the universe

We are a speck of dust in a billion galaxies 

But this tick, this moment, this spec, oh how beloved, oh how treasured!

The creator of chronology

The architect of ages

The designer of durations 

Chose us before he created the world

Before time existed, before occasions, before instances, before intervals, before periods

God chose to give us a life, a lifetime, a life span

And he invited us into his own time frame, into his own eternity