Say, it’s an ordinary Sunday. I’m sitting in a pew with my family. I see the bread broken. I hear the prayers said. I see the emblems passed from hand to hand, Christ’s body and blood shared among us. And in that moment, if I’m paying attention, time can unfold differently. The normal pull of time, of the inevitable chain of cause and effect, can be broken. I can be forgiven. The grip of my past can loosen. My fears for the future can lessen. I can be present. And, in the present, I can be empowered to “look forward” in a new way. Rather than simply looking through the present and into the
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