PARK PLACE OF ST. JOHN Life Style
Chaplain’s Corner Time Machine
before September 11, 2001, and the disaster of the commercial planes crashing into the World Trade Center in New York, and prevent that from happening? Or warn the people of New Orleans that the hurricane heading their way would nearly destroy the city and thousands would die, and thus save countless lives? Or prevent many other terrible events, like the Texas floods two months ago. Alas, no time machine exists. We can’t go back and change anything from the past. But…don’t you love it when you’re watching a television show or movie and the situation is so dire, all looks hopeless, but…someone or something shows up or something occurs that saves the day?! It thus appears that when it comes to time travel, we actually have a “but.” No, I (you) can’t go back in time and change anything, but I (you) can make choices now that will change the future! You and I can’t go backward in time, but in a real sense, we can travel forward in time! After all, our lives are comprised of all the choices we made throughout our lives that have led us to this very moment. The same
Over the last 30-plus years, we have seen numerous movies about traveling back and forth through time. Many of these include a time
device or vehicle of some sort. Most of the time, it’s about traveling back in time to rectify or resolve something that went wrong in the present. So, if you did have a time machine and you could go back in time for a brief period and you could only use the time machine once, when and where would you go? Far more importantly, what would be the reason or purpose for going back? We can guess a lot of “spur-of-the-moment” desires. When we first got married, the birth of our first child, how we would approach that first career/job decision, how we would begin handling our finances, how we might have saved a loved one from a preventable loss, where we would choose to live out our lives, and the list goes on. But what if we had more time to think more deeply about that choice? Then we might choose something far more important than anyone or anything in our personal life. We might choose to go back to stave off a major disaster that would involve saving a huge number of people. What if we could go back
principle applies to the future. As John Maxwell, an author, has stated, “I can’t go back and make a new beginning, but I can begin today and make a new end.”
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