ONE MOMENT IN TIME

2 Timothy 3:10-11a But you, Timothy, certainly know what I teach, and how I live, and what my purpose in life is. You know my faith, my patience, my love, and my endurance, persecutions, sufferings...

The different between a photograph and a video is that a photo captures ‘still moments’ in time, whereas videos allow for continuity of moments. Saint Paul raises a very interesting discourse today. He bares it all in this letter and effect makes a statement to the effect that “you know all there is to know about me. You know my ideologies, my convictions, virtues, moments of pain and moments of relief.”

When people are armed with such level of information, they are not readily swayed by “what others say”. However, a strong case can be made for the fact that most of us only have a snapshot moments of the lives others have lived. All we get the opportunity to witness then may be the moments when they were at their weakest, or strongest. The times when they were at their happiest, or saddest, moments when they missed their targets or went on a winning streak.

Sadly, our world mostly remembers people by moments, and rarely by the entirety of their lives. You can write someone off because of one moment, or give an opportunity because of the same. Moments can thus change lives in a very literal sense, but we need to be careful the weighting we give to such moments. An entire lifespan should not be defined purely by one time point.

#sly