when i feel i'm slipping further away
well, i remember that everyday, i get a little bit closer / to you A sermon on Jesus' sermon to end all sermons : Well, Jesus certainly got our attention with that one. Didn’t he? With this passage, Jesus strikes upon something we’re all deeply invested in: time . And Jesus strikes at the heart of the matter, too. Time, says Christ, is winding down . Now, on one hand, we all already know this. Don’t we? We’ve all felt the passage of time. We can all tell that time inexorably goes in one direction only . We’ve all had that uncanny experience of noticing the slippage of time in real -time! On the other hand, though , we don’t believe it. Do we? At least we don’t live like we believe it, not really. We all carry on as if time doesn’t have our number. We all live as if the present will continue indefinitely . Of course, it goes without saying that it never does. And I’m not just talking about the certainty of change , either. I’m talking about the inevitable conclusion