Common Comments

Have you ever found yourself asking questions like, “Where did the time go?”  Or, “How time flies!”  Some of the most undeniable and common things like Time surprise us.   Listen to how C.S. Lewis says it:

Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heaven's name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something about us that is not temporal.

Yes indeed, Mr. Lewis.  There’s something in us that is not temporal:

[God] has also set eternity in the hearts of men

Ecclesiastes 3:11

We were born here, but we don’t belong here.  We belong in eternity, and our common comments of surprise express our longing to return home.