Editorial September 13, 1999 Issue

Beyond crunch time—to God's time

Mary Metzner Trammell

SOMETIMES we all feel painted into a corner by time constraints. Maybe we have too much to do, in too little time. Or face an impending deadline. Or fly halfway around the world—as a friend and I did recently—and find we've lost out on a whole day.

Actually, though, these experiences can be productive. They can teach us to deal more effectively with time pressure. They can show us our own capacities—for example, for doing a task in half the time it usually takes. But beyond that, these circumstances can force us to redeem the whole conventional concept of time. They can push us to discover a kind of time that transcends the 24-hour-day paradigm. They can inspire us to measure the events of our life in a more spiritual way. And ultimately, in God's way.

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