Back to Basics December 29, 2025 Issue

Seeing the eternally original you

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

And the clock turns over at midnight: another year.

While this new year is often celebrated, sometimes it surfaces thoughts of past mistakes, regrets, things said that should not have been, or things not said that should have been. Even in the rare cases where there are no regrets, the advancing years tend to bring with them the sense that we’re aging and experiencing the decline that the world tells us is inevitable. The human concept of existence tells us that the clock can’t be turned back, however much we might like to return to someone we feel we used to be.

But God’s creation exists on a much grander scale than hands advancing on a clock. In fact, His creation is spiritual, infinite, timeless, existing in what some religious thinkers have called “the eternal now.” Within that eternal now, each of us exists and has always existed in our true, spiritual identity, wholly and forever good because, as the Bible tells us, we are created in the image and likeness of God, Spirit, who is eternal good.

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