What If Time Isn’t What We Think It Is?

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about time — this strange thing we’re always chasing, negotiating with, or feeling at the mercy of. We talk about it constantly:

I don’t have time.It’s not the right time.Time heals.

But when I look back on my life, time has never behaved in any consistent way. Some years disappeared in a blink, while certain days felt impossibly long. And somehow, all of it shaped me.

I’ve started to picture time like a river. Some seasons flow slowly and gently; others rush forward with a force that pulls us off our feet. And in the middle of it, we’re learning how to float, how to trust the current, how to believe that we’ll end up where we’re meant to be.

In Spiritualism, there’s a beautiful idea that life is eternal — that the soul continues growing far beyond what we can see from here. One of the early pioneers, Andrew Jackson Davis, wrote a line that has stayed with me:

“Time is but a shadow of eternity cast upon the surface of creation.”

He wrote that in the 1800s, long before Einstein described time as flexible. Davis, a trance medium known as the Poughkeepsie Seer, said his understanding came from spirit teachers — that what we call “time” is simply how eternity expresses itself in this physical world.

In this human life, we need time. We need its rhythm, its seasons, the space it gives us to grow into what our soul already knows.

If everything happened all at once, we wouldn’t be able to hold it. Time stretches things out not to frustrate us, but to shape us — to let us catch up with our own becoming. When life speeds up, maybe it’s because something in us is finally ready. And when it slows down, perhaps Spirit is still preparing the next step.

Einstein once said that the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion — a convincing one, but still an illusion. Spiritualists have echoed that idea for over a century.

Because when Spirit draws close, time disappears.It doesn’t matter whether someone has been in the spirit world for ten years or fifty — the moment you feel them, the love is immediate. Whole decades evaporate in a breath.

Love doesn’t travel through time.Love is timeless.

Maybe eternity isn’t endless hours but a depth of presence — the eternal now. That space we enter when we stop replaying the past or rehearsing the future. In that stillness, everything exists at once: memory, possibility, the thread of who we’ve been and who we’re becoming.

And we’re already inside it. Right now, wherever you’re reading this, eternity is here — in your breath, your awareness, the quiet around you.

Sometimes I think about starlight. When we look up at the night sky, we’re seeing light that started its journey millions of years ago. In a way, we’re looking directly into the past. The star may have burned out long ago, but its light keeps traveling.

I think love is like that.The kindness we’ve shared, the connections we’ve made — they continue on, far beyond anything we can see. Energy doesn’t die; it only changes form. And love is the brightest energy there is.

Trusting time, though, might be one of the hardest lessons in this human experience. We wait for clarity, for healing, for change. We get impatient. We want Spirit to hurry.

But divine timing isn’t late — it’s precise. Things align not when time “finally opens up,” but when we align with what we’ve been asking for. When our energy catches up with our own readiness.

As a medium, I’ve often felt how flexible time becomes when Spirit steps in. Twenty years can fall away in an instant. A loved one appears, and suddenly the clock feels irrelevant. Maybe that’s what eternity truly feels like — the moment when love makes time disappear.

So perhaps the task isn’t to fight time or rush it, but to walk with it. To recognize that it isn’t taking from us; it’s shaping us. Giving us space to unfold — just like the stars, just like Spirit, just like love.

Take a moment — wherever you are.

Breathe.Feel this second, this presence, this stillness.

Right now, in this simple moment, you are standing inside eternity.

You are loved.You are guided.And you are growing into what you already are.

One day, from a higher perspective, we’ll see that time wasn’t measuring our lives at all.It was revealing our eternity.