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The quote in my planner for this week:

“Time is the greatest innovator.” —Francis Bacon

I’d like to revise that to “Time is the greatest oppressor.” It’d be a smackdown cover story for the news. “What you don’t know about time will KILL you! Stay tuned for more at six.” Thousands of viewers would immediately go hysterical. (“But I might be dead by then!”)

But really, God has it so good with that whole existing outside of time thing. He doesn’t have to worry about unretractable life decisions or events, being able to get tasks done on deadline, the certainty of death. You might tap me on the shoulder, say, “Hey, time gives high value to our experiences because they are finite. That makes them precious, damn you.” But did Zeus ever say, “Gee, being all-powerful and living forever is a real downer,” and discard deity status for some good ol’ mortality?

Granted, Jesus Christ is considered part of the Trinity, but he is not God Himself. Nope, God wouldn’t degrade Himself to that level of existence like “amoebas on fleas on dogs.”

Oh wait, I forgot Nicholas Cage in City of Angels, who did a stunning, in-depth portrait of the psychology of immortals, the lonely hardships of not being affected by time, and how to remedy that by stalking and falling in love with cute, blond doctors.