Sometimes I have big thoughts in the shower...
You may know that I, Kathryn, am a science fiction buff - have been since I was a wee lass. I remember watching the original "Star Trek" with my dad and watching reruns of "Lost in Space" in elementary school followed by "Star Wars", "Space 1999", and "Battlestar Galactica", and again "Star Trek The Next Generation". Two of three pieces I know how to play on the piano are "Star Wars" and Battlestar Galactica". So this is one of my preferred genres especially on screen. Never really have gone in for the written sci-fi.
About a year and a half ago some dear friends of ours - Piper and Andy Fordham - introduced Dominic and I to "Doctor Who" -the old, now new, British sci-fi television series. The time travelling "spaceship" as such in this show is called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions in Space). The cool thing about the TARDIS is that it's bigger on the inside than on the outside.
So yesterday in the shower I'm thinking about God and His creation - the earth, the universe and such...the beginning and end of time. About literary classics and sci-fi and love. Love in that you never run out of love or people to love. How it doesn't matter how many kids you have, there is always room to love another one. How when someone you love dies, there is a hole left that only they can fill. How as Christians we have the Holy Spirit living inside us.
So how could we possibly NOT be TARDIS' ourselves? Because of our imaginations we can go backward and forward in time. We have so much room to explore in our heads. So much "scope for the imagination" as Anne of Green Gables once said. We can't really grasp all this enormity. We have our limits, but we are still so much bigger on the inside of us than what these human bodies are physically. Perhaps in heaven our bodies will be able to travel as the TARDIS does from time to time and actually see Adam and Eve created and the Garden of Eden and Christ go to the cross for us and even our own wee story and well as the end of time.
So this is probably a "wibbly wobbly timey whimey" sort of analogy, but I just had to share it with someone...
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Wonderful friend, would it help if I tell you it rains a lot here? Probably not. and the Doctor Who Christmas special is too short to be of real consolation.
It's so hard when God takes the concept of waiting and turns doctrine into reality. There is nothing to do but do the next thing.
We love you.
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