3 - ICE, SNOW, FIRE
Time is a great mystery. Try and pin down exactly what is meant in the opening of Genesis where reference is made to God naming day as the period of light and night as the period of darkness, then the Sacred Writer begins to enumerate the days of creation, and we are confronted with the pitfall of assuming ‘day’ in this context means our understanding of a day being the sequence of hours over a twenty-four-hour period. It would be millennia before that latter concept would be accepted and then it would take centuries more to agree on things like time zones! St. John Paul teaches that: In Christianity time has fundamental importance…..In Jesus Christ, the word made flesh, time becomes a dimension of God, who is Himself eternal…..[from the Apostolic Letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente, II, para. 10] Time can flow like a gentle stream or rush like a torrent. Time is illusive, non-material, tangible mostly by what w