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Father,
We are in awe of the way you view time. “One day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
You created time.
You are throughout time.
You are throughout time, but you are also outside of time.
You are above time, and below time.
You move through time, and watch time move past you.
You are eternal, and our mortal time is but a breath.
Yet you care for us! Our fleeting moment is important to you! We are important to you!
We are in awe.
As mortals, we sometimes catch a glimpse of how you view time. Sometimes, the hours and days go quickly for us. Other times, the seconds and minutes drag on, slowly — oh, so slowly!
And time is never so slow, Father, as when we are alone.
This is one child’s burden, now.
Loneliness.
The time drags,
the ache is sustained.
Hope wanes, and
despair looms large.
And so, now, I come to you, Father, on behalf of this child of yours, this lonely one.