Though he has permitted man to consider time in its wholeness.
Man cannot comprehend the work of God from beginning to end.
We think we are secure in our own fastness.
We imagine everything will mend.

We place so much importance in our possessions.
But they give us so little lasting happiness.

They become our insistent obsessions.

And take away all tenderness.

Better to pass time with the sea.

Never still  yet never moving.

Never captured always free.

Part of time yet never passing.

And us, we come in with the tide.

And staying there, we go out with the tide.

…….

We are part of time

There is another beyond

Not captured by it

……..

See Ecclesiastes 3: 1-11