THE FULLNESS OF TIME
The fullness of time is often used in the
King James version of the Bible. The version is rarely read because of its
quaint English, yet was one of the early commissioned works of compilation that
has lasted for centuries.
It is very easy to imagine a baby being
born in the “fullness of time”. In fact it is not desirable that a baby be born
before the fullness of time, or after the period specified for it.
Most things in the world work on this
celestial clock, whose ticking is often inaudible to harried ears and drowned by
the strident calls of our busy schedules. We desire faster, quicker, further,
and it all has to happen at the touch of a button or a swish of a screen.
Yet there is a fullness of time that makes
the sun rise on schedule, and the rivers run in spring. Leaves fall in autumn,
and buds respond to birds in spring from skeletal branches that watch over
winter.
How deep is that understanding of that
clock within us, when all of nature follows its baton?
We get impatient with others, with
ourselves, and with the world, and can often despair of people who don’t respond
or change, circumstances that don’t shift, or situations that seem stuck in a
quagmire. Are we forgetting that our celestial conductor still holds the baton
over all these things? And do we remind ourselves that there might be in that
situation, for that person, or for that circumstance, a fullness of time that
is yet to be?
If we are able to see that, we might join
the universal choir in singing in tune, rather than raising a discordant voice
that grates against the bars of music that dictate our days.
Well did the wisest man in all the world write … “He makes all things beautiful in His time.”
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