Take time seriously; we must incorporate a conception of time as an essential attribute of reality and not only as describing a way of experiencing or measuring a reality that is ultimately non-temporal. Neither the behavior of human beings nor the activities of organizations can be defined without reference to time, and temporal aspects are critical for understanding them. Moreover, the experience of time among working people reflects in numerous ways what has been called the temporal foot print. There are also numerous constructs that directly refer to time, such as time pressure, polychronicity, deadlines, time perspective and so forth. Space and time are the two necessary attributes of an infinite substance, distinguishable, it is true, into perspectives defined by reference to point-instants, but where motions are simply the redistributions of spatiotemporal coefficients within the whole already existent space-time. In this view space-time is looked on as that out of which things come, and we can ask whether, as with the materialist’s conception of matter, this is not to treat an abstraction as though it were a reality. Time is like an empty container into which things and events maybe placed; but it is a container that exists independently of what (if anything) is placed in it. Perhaps we should take seriously the possibility of time’s consisting of multiple time streams, each one of which is isolated from each other, so that every moment of time stands in temporal relations to other moments in its own time stream but does not bear any temporal relations to any moment from another time stream. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

In another sense, reality is essentially a process, and historical. There is an irreversible direction in it, defined by time’s arrow. In this, nature is focused in lines of development whose history describes the successive levels of ordered structures they exhibit. At each stage in time, where there is a new emergent quality, this quality is the spearhead of a genuine creative advance. Time could correspond to a branching line. And we can also wonder whether one of the two directions of time is in some way privileged, in a way that makes time itself asymmetrical. God’s knowledge and his interactions with his people within the temporal World shapes how that individual will think about God’s relation to time and with the main items in the preceding statement the other way around. According to the Eternalist, temporal locations matters not at all when it comes to ontology. God is omniscient and infallible, the Lord knows every truth, and he is never mistake. God’s timeless knowledge of an event is thought to be strongly analogous to our present knowledge of an event. It is the occurring of the event that determines the content of our knowledge of the event. So too, it is the occurring of the event that determines the content of God’s knowledge. In thinking about God’s nature, we notice that whatever God is, he is to the greatest degree possible. He knows everything that is possible to know. God can do anything that is possible to do. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

God is maximally merciful. God’s life requires that he be timeless. No being that experiences its life sequentially can have the fullest life possible. Temporal beings experience their lives one moment at a time. The past is gone and the future is not yet. The past part of a person’s life is gone forever. One can remember it, but one cannot experience it directly. The future part of one’s life is not yet here. One can anticipate it and worry about it, but one cannot yet experience it. One only experiences a brief slice of one’s life at any one time. The life of a temporal thing, then, is spread our and diffuse. It is the transient nature of our human experience that gives rise to much of the wistfulness and regret we may feel about our lives. This feeling of regret lends credibility to the idea that a sequential life is a life that is less than maximally full. Older people sometimes wish for earlier days, while younger people long to mature. We grieve for people we love who are now gone. We grieve also for the events and times that no longer persist. Whatever lives in time proceeds in the present from the past into the future, and there is nothing established in time which can embrace the whole space of its life equally, but tomorrow surely it does not yet grasp, while yesterday it has already lost. God’s life is not finite, his member is perfectly vivid. He does not lose anything with the passage of time. Nor does his life draw closer to its end. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

God can answer prayers. The Lord hears all our prayer in his one timeless conscious act and in that same conscious act, God wills the answers to our various requests. Perhaps the effects of God’s actions are located successively in time but his acting is not. In one eternal act God wills the speaking to Moses at one time and the parting of the sea at another. So, Moses hears God speaking from the bush at one time and much later Moses sees God part the sea. However, in God’s life and consciousness, these actions are not sequential. God wills timelessly both the speaking and the parting. The sequence of the effects of God’s timeless will does not imply that God’s acts themselves are temporal. Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of God’s will and timing in our lives—even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted. Clearly, God withholds some blessings because there are some lessons he wants to teach that go beyond the obvious exercises in repentance and righteousness. Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the Earth. Blessed are the powerful, for they shall be reverenced among people. Blessed are the bold, for they shall be masters of the World. Blessed are the victorious, for victory is the basis of right. Blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure. Blessed are those that believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized. Every hypocrite who has ever walked the Earth has had pockets bulging with love! #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Many of us struggle, looking for answers to our prayers, sometimes getting frustrated by what we perceive as a void. What we might not know is that God is allowing us to experience the darkness so that we can appreciate the goodness of God’s light when it comes. A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when one feels pure intelligence flowing into their being, it may give a person sudden stokes of ideas, and thus, by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, we may grow into the principle of revelation until we become perfected in the Savior. In all the most important decisions in our lives, what is most important is to do the right thing. We must also do the right thing at the right time. People who do the right thing at the wrong time can be frustrated and ineffective. They can become confused about whether they made the right choice when what was wrong was not their choice, but their timing. Faith means trust—trust in God’s will, trust in his ways of doing things, and trust in his timetable. We should not try to impose our timetable on God’s. If we can truly believe God has our well-being at heart, may we not let his plans unfold as he thinks best? Faith needs to include faith the in the Lord’s timing for us personally, not just in his overall plans and purposes. This action takes courage and it takes hope. One of the most important things that we can do now is to stay worthy and to stay clean. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

Each one of us throughout our lives will make decisions and will reach certain milestones. Those decisions bring us to a point where we are tried by the adversary, and we may start to doubt. However, if one yields to the adversary and does not follow the Lord’s well-marked road, it can have devastating consequences. Prepare now, decide now to heed the promptings of the Spirit, even when it is hard. Make the decision now how you will react, and do not let the laughter from the tall and spacious buildings get in the way of doing the right thing. “Sanctify yourselves and you shall be endowed with power,” reports Doctrines and Covenants 43.16. If we sanctify ourselves, prepare ourselves, and exercise faith, then surely the Lord will do wonders among us. It s time, right now, to put away immature things and turn our hearts toward the Savior. We can still have fund. We can laugh. We can experience life in its fullest. We know that because we know the Lord wants us to be happy. And in order to be truly happy in the Lord’s way, we must live the Lord’s will. It takes courage and strength. In courage, our blood may run cold for a while, but it is running—and as we persist, it will heat up, flowing more and more strongly, heartening and encouraging us. Courage is al about facing what we are scared to do, and doing it nonetheless. Without risk there is no courage. Without fear there is no courage. Without challenging circumstances, there is no courage. It takes discipline. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

What is needed are valiant Saints that are willing to turn off the filth and tune into the scriptures. Keeping virtue is one of our most precious gifts, and of repenting and of continually striving to repent and fulfill our duty to God. All of us need to be totally obedient. We have to have courage to live by the scriptures and believe in God and wait patiently in faith. Though no one else may see or recognize our struggle, we go on, even if we are on our hands and knees. There is a kind of love implicit in courage, the love of our own integrity, our standing up for what really matters. However small the impact of our courage may be, it nonetheless radiates out, touching more than we can imagine. In the end, we want to be on the winning team, and believe it our not, we are already on the winning team. The outcomes are known, the scored is already posted. We just have to continue to stay on the Lord’s team and contribute all that we have. Now, trust in yourself. Give yourself some credit. Be not faithless, but believing. And know that God is in control and we will not be forgotten nor abandoned. Our righteous desires will come to pass in the Lord’s time. Courage can occur in the simplest of actions; it can be quite easy to overlook or undervalue everyday acts of courage. Awakening to our true nature without any dissociation from or denial of your humanity is spiritual courage. Give heart and soul and mind strength.  #RandolphHarris 7 of 7