Anniversaries

Here’s something Patrick Lane wrote in a weekly The Economist email newsletter:

“In one sense, anniversaries don’t matter very much. The day exactly, say, five, 13 or 27 years after some event, however important it was at the time, is just another day. And yet they do matter, a lot. Though they are just accidents of the calendar, anniversaries—whether of birth, marriage or death; of war breaking out or guns falling silent—are focal moments, to celebrate, mourn or simply reflect.” (Patrick Lane, 2024)

These words seem very insightful to me and they prompted me to consider the context that anniversaries exist in - and that context is time.

Time is very important to us, understandably so, because we each have a limited supply of it. The big anniversaries in all our lives are based on our date of birth. To state the obvious these cease to recur on the date of our death.

But is time important to God? I don’t think so. After all the bible says “…With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” (2 Peter 3:8, NIV)

God created time for us but time won’t always exist because it is only relevant to mortal human beings. God has promised a time, a kingdom, where no one dies. Ever. Perfection. Everlasting joy. An end to sorrow, pain and death. Forever. How He will do this is in His Bible.

If we want to be a permanent part of this wonderful future our journey starts there, by reading this special book.

Reference

Lane, P. (2024, February 18). "Hello From London." The Economist Today.