Sunday, March 04, 2007

You Are a Time Traveler

If we traveled between dimensions in parallel universes as portrayed in science fiction, we could spend our entire lives in one minute repeated over and over and never exhaust all the possible contingencies of choices and twists and turns in the roads multiplied by an infinite number of factors influencing outcomes. That is the conundrum of choice and the vastness of the possibilities that we can create under God.

It is also the very sobering anchor of our lives. We can only choose one path at a time and we cannot travel between outcomes. We must choose and live with our choices. The only ones we can change are in the future.

As Erwin McManus says, we are all time travelers, but we can only travel forward in time.

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