T<\/em>h<\/em>e earth and the world brought forth<\/em><\/p>\n F<\/em>r<\/em>om eternity to eternity, You are God.<\/em><\/p>\n It is a powerful cosmic vision in which the psalmist looks back and then looks forward. But he does not stay in the past or with the future, but rather with the present: You are.<\/p>\n Frequently we live trying to hold onto what has escaped us, wishing for things we lack and missing what is nonexistent. \u00a0We live in a past that does not exist anymore and in a future that does not yet exist, full of nostalgic disquiet and false mirages, forgetting that only the here and now <\/em>are God\u2019s time, pregnant with possibilities.<\/p>\n Humanly speaking, what is the content or the meaning of the now<\/em> that we call the present<\/em>? The present is a point in which the future becomes the past. When we say, \u201cNow is the present,\u201d we are already in the past. The present disappears the same instant we try to take a hold of it. When we attempt to grasp it, it is already gone. So, if the past does not exist, then the future does not exist either. Now we are saying that the present does not exist either. Is it that our existence is only illusory in character?<\/p>\n Certainly not. On the contrary, our experience attests to the fact that the now <\/em>is real, and it is so because eternity breaks into time, and gives it its real meaning.\u00a0 We could not even say \u201cnow<\/em>,\u201d if at that moment, eternity did not raise this moment<\/em> above time that never ceases. When the psalmist contemplates a God, for whom \u201ca thousand years are as yesterday come and gone,\u201d he is experiencing that eternity which for him, the psalmist, is a real and concrete now. <\/em>He is participating in some form, in God\u2019s eternity. Whenever we say \u201cnow,\u201d in that now<\/em> are united something temporal and something eternal, the past and the future.<\/p>\n Therefore, for God there is neither past nor future, only the present. That is why when the psalmist is looking at the past and the future (\u201cfrom eternity and for eternity\u201d), he adds, in spite of the grammatical error: You are; the now <\/em>set in stone, eternalized, extending forwards and backwards. This is what makes our temporality, which is an abstract entity, have a real and objective character. This is due to the participation of the now <\/em>of God. We are then, sons of eternity.<\/p>\n Before the existence of that snowcapped mountains and the roses had flowered in the fields, and the waterfalls had come down from the mountains, and man had named each living thing, You are, <\/em>in your eternal now.<\/em><\/p>\n Before that blast in which the universe broke into its million particles of galaxies and constellations, which began the walk we called universal expansion; before <\/em>all that You are, <\/em>from eternity and for eternity. Over the course of millions of years, hydrogen was transforming itself into helium. In the meantime, the stars would be disappearing one by one. Even the neutronic stars would be consumed in the form of fumes; therefore the universe will come to an end going by returning to its nothingness; You are <\/em>from eternity and for eternity.<\/p>\n Extracted from the book \u201cPsalms for life\u201d by Fr. 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