Isness...

More about God's view of time - this time from Henri Nouwen:

There is no "after" after death. Words like after and before belong to our mortal life, our life in time and space. Death frees us from the boundaries of chronology and brings us into God's "time," which is timeless. Speculations about the afterlife, therefore, are little more than just that: speculations. Beyond death there is no "first" and "later," no "here" and "there," no "past," "present," or "future." God is all in all. The end of time, the resurrection of the body, and the glorious coming again of Jesus are no longer separated by time for those who are no longer in time.

For us who still live in time, it is important not to act as if the new life in Christ is something we can comprehend or explain. God's heart and mind are greater than ours. All that is asked of us is trust.

(With thanks to the Henri Nouwen Society)

It is important to act, too, in the full knowledge that in our human measure of time, we have less of it today than yesterday. Less time in our own life certainly, but less chronos, the measure of clock time, before the parousia, the Day of the Lord, when all our time and our times will be swept into the glorious isness, istigkeit as Meister Eckhart called it, of God's own presence.

Maranatha - even so, come, Lord Jesus!