The Fleeting Moment

In thinking about love had and lost, faces possibly never to be seen again, the spirit of a person no longer in my life, the slow fading of all things.... It is a fascinating thing that the mind tries to process the passing by of life. Actually, it is fascinating that the mind processes.

Dear memories may be visited, but never again experienced and enjoyed. They may be brought up again by a face from the past, and still the nostalgia cannot be repeated.  New life must come and new moments to be had. There are the good moments of family, God, and restoration... But there is the bad moment I wish to process before you; I call him the "fleeting moment:"

The fleeting moment is the great taunter of life; he promises worldly satisfaction, arrival, pleasure, happiness, and a certain spark of life that somehow everyone is dying to have. The fleeing moment is a great boaster and so hypnotically attractive, that the whole world lusts to have him. He has become the goal of the lives of many. How can he possibly be attained? The conditions are lavish - an all-encompassing pursuit - because, he will always be just one more step ahead, beyond one more thing to buy, one more experience to have, and then beyond just still one more... then only one more, everyone is sure of it. But like a sour sting, again the moment is running just a little too far ahead, like a little wisp of faint light evading all grasp. Lives are completely exhausted and consumed to catch this fleeting moment that never happens and never satisfies. The life lived for the pursuit of pleasure drives all to their deaths... The fleeting moment is the great swindler of life. He masquerades as the real, when he is the greatest, cleverest fake.

I was also charmed by the "fleeting moment." I tried to chase him and lost.  Yet this awakening from wasted pursuit caused me to find, in my very hands, the light of life that had I been searching for. All along, I already had the real moment. Christ is the moment. In Christ, the moment is ours to have and to give.

"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."- John 10:10

"Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”- John 8:12