While calmly seated in the living room, I was once startled by a crash. Fifteen pounds of weights had dropped to the floor inside the grandfather clock. For the grandfather clock, time had been lost by the dropping of weights. The clock's weights had kept it going. But many of us have mental weights and burdens that slow us down. The incident with the clock got me thinking about the importance of dropping these burdens.
First, there is the belief that time is a powerful entity of itself—that human life is "time's fool," as Shakespeare called it. The Master, Christ Jesus, proved by his healing work, his resurrection, and his ascension that the supposed power of matter to limit life is false. Following him, Christian Science makes it clear that time and matter are wrapped in the same bundle of limitation and that this limitation is mental and insubstantial. Mrs. Eddy sets forth boldly in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, her proposition that neither time nor mortal life is part of God's creation. She writes, "Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity."Science and Health, p. 468;
Albert Einstein is said to have half-jokingly explained his theory to a layman: "It was formerly believed that if all material things disappeared out of the universe, time and space would be left. According to the relativity theory, however, time and space disappear together with the things."The National Observer, August 2, 1971, p. 17;
