Hence the relativization of chronology. Wave and particle. The present matters, but now is not only the present. Our now is pregnant: it bears possibilities from a past that will be borne into a future. The time stamp of a generation’s existence is caught up and enfolded into an ongoing reality that both precedes and follows us. The generation of Israel standing on the shore of the Jordan is defined by that part of its “body” that wandered in the wilderness. The past generation’s experience is in them, a defining part of who they are as they embark on this possibility. And to be who they are
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