Time II

 Staying with yesterday's blog theme on time, Jesus died in chronos time.  It was an historical event in sequential time.  The resurrection is about chiros time, God time, and not on a clock.  To say that he rose on the third day is to put a clock on something that is deeper than this.  What we know, for me, is that someone saw him alive on the third day.  He beat death and the devil in chiros time, God time.  One minute he is dead, and then he lives, but there is no second on the clock when he goes from one to the other.  In the tomb he passes from chronos to chiros, from the mundane world to the deeper God world.  Mary Magdalene tried to hold onto him, to keep him in her time, but he said no.  You cannot hold chiros time, but you can experience it.  You cannot hold onto deep prayer but you can experience it.  The Risen Jesus holds both the world of time and the world beyond time in his risen body.  He can suddenly show up in a room.  There is not sequential entering, but rather an awareness of his presence.  He can eat food and you can see his wounds.  He is not a mystical vision.  The Risen Christ is unique.  When you die, you enter the timeless presence of God.  It has no days.  You will be totally unaware of the passing.  Suddenly you are in the timeless.  Only those at your deathbed will be aware of "the time of your death."