What does it mean to live in the present, to hear each other in the present, to be known in the present, to be present with one another?
A few weeks after I returned from a trip to Asia, the family gathered on a Saturday night, and my in-laws were in town from out of state. Grandpa John brought a lot of ice cream and the kids were enjoying sundaes.
I turned to my son Benjamin, almost seven years old now, and asked him, “How is it that we’re having sundaes but it’s only Saturday? Can you explain this?”
Without missing a beat, he said, “It’s already Sunday, in Thailand.”
When I think about the paradox that the Kingdom is coming and the Kingdom is now, I realize that this time-zone phenomenon is part of our everyday reality, and it’s a perfect example of living in the present while the future is already here.
In the broadest sense, this is the “present” we live in. Why not party now?
Adam G. Fleming 