chasing the sun

“…God stands ahead of us in time, at the end of the journey, sending to us in waves, as it were, the gift of the present, an inrush of the future that pushes the past behind us and washes over us with a ceaseless flow of new possibilities, new options, new chances to rethink and receive new direction, new empowerment. This newness, these possibilities are always “at hand,” “among us,” and “coming” so we can “enter” the larger reality and transcend the space we currently fill – language you will recognize as being, again, the language of the kingdom of God, which is the language of the gospel.”
–Brian McClaren, A Generous Orthodoxy