God's Dragonfly

In how many days was the earth created? Biblically, six. Scientifically, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years. What is God's time compared to our own? According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, an organism the size of an insect experiences roughly ten seconds in the span of a single human second. So, you observe a dragonfly land on your hand for a second. Because of that theory, nearly ten seconds have elapsed for the dragonfly. Is it any wonder they seem to move so quickly?

So how long did it take God to create the earth? Assuming the laws of physics apply to God, let's ask who He is. I've always viewed Him to be an omnipresent, omniscient energy, who is everywhere, in everyone, all at once. But even if He's not, any god must obviously scale a single man by thousands, just as we scale that dragonfly by hundreds. Given these circumstances, might our relative times differ? What is a day in our life compared to the day in the life of God?

To put not too fine a point on it, a lifetime of fifty years on earth might only equate to 10 minutes for God. If that's the case, how long do we have as men to make an impression on Him? Though not a single human nor a single dragonfly is insignificant to God, we appear before Him for a seemly insignificant amount of time. That hour we spend bitching about the drive to school or work hardly equates to a nano-second for God. If we therefore only devote some of our energies and time to Him, say, only a few days a week every few months praying, we appear a rather fickle species to God.

This isn't supposed to be as religious as it sounds. Rather, it can have completely secular implications. In the scheme of things, that medium or large Dr. Pepper decision we agonize over has no lasting meaning. We weigh heavily on the consequences of our actions, yet turn a blind eye to those consequences the moment another "crisis" emerges. So what is the point of worrying if we don't even take stock in any of it?

What we do in life should have lasting meaning; not what benefits us for a few days, a couple weeks, even a month. If what we decide doesn't add to the greater achievement of our dreams, then not even time and chance can make their mark. When we think only a few minutes or days ahead, then time and chance are wasted, bound by our own irrelevance. I'm striving to make my choices count. I'm struggling to ensure that what I do is not only important, but has a lasting relevance. My lifetime is but a miniscule amount of time to God, or whatever energy gives us sentience, so I damn well better make it count.