Time Is On Your Side

In 1964 The Rolling Stones declared that: "Time Is On My Side" on a b-side single. Despite this pithy bit of wisdom that has resonated through the pop culture for 40 years, many of us have a saboteur that often suggests there's not enough #time for everything in life.

The truth is--time is an illusion.  Einstein knew this (space-time continuum).  And, as Eckhart Tolle puts it (paraphrase): "We may use clock-time for practical purposes, but there is no future and no past.  There is only the now."

Sometimes we lose sight of this fundamental truth.  Life evolves moment to moment, and as much as we attempt to schedule every moment using clock time, that technique inevitably leads to frustration, anxiety, and disappointment.  I have found that it is more graceful to enter the river of life and swim with its flow.   

When I am caught up in clock time angst, I find it helpful to:  "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."-- Matthew 6:28-29

So when the clock starts running your life, which do you prefer: toiling and spinning, or flowing and swimming?