29. The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity

“The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.” ~ Meister Eckhart
Here is mysticism takes root. Time would seem to be without meaning in the context eternity, an attempt to count the countless and measure the unmeasurable. Our souls, once created, are eternal, our existence is without limits. Still, time has a great impact on his. As humans, we life a measured and finite existence. Time is the construct used to give order and perspective to our humanity and human lives. Time is the measure of second, minutes, hours, days and years that relate to our time on earth. Our souls take up residence in an human body for a measured amount of time between life and death. Our bodies are restricted by time but our souls are eternal so we are truly created in a space between time and eternity because we know both, one presently and the other in a time come.

Our souls need our bodies to live our lives where we come experience the revelation of God and his resurrected son. It is during life we learn the lessons we need to grasp our relationships with a created world with physical limits. We need to experience life and death, sorrow and joy, tragedy and new life. Without struggle we would never grow in awareness of him and his power and love for us.

We are both mortal and eternal so time and eternal so both are integral to our 

development as sentient beings with a sense of awe and love with our creator.