This is the title of a profoundly beautiful poem by Ursula K Le Guin. Part of her last collection of poetry, she gathers a lifetime of wonderings in these words:
HYMN TO TIME
Time says “Let there be”
every moment and instantly
there is space and the radiance
of each bright galaxy.And eyes beholding radiance.
And the gnats’ flickering dance.
And the seas’ expanse.
And death, and chance.Time makes room
for going and coming home
and in time’s womb
begins all ending.Time is being and being
+ Ursula K Le Guin, From Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014, PM Press, 2015
time, it is all one thing,
the shining, the seeing,
the dark abounding.
The phrase catches me: ‘Time makes room…’ And I want to live in the expansiveness of that experience.
Time, not as taskmaster or judge, but breathing space for what is precious and life-giving.
Not counting the days in fear, but living the present with a timeless abundance. As children do, before they’ve been schooled in the value system of scarcity and measurement.
Time as possibility that invites us to swim in the flow rather than stand on the sidelines as passive observers.
What an invitation.
Join me?
~ The Astrophysicist Jenna Leven recorded a version of ‘Hymn to Time’. Listen here.