Living in the Melting Moment: Devotion for Monday, October 13

Salvador Dali’s famous painting has always fascinated me. The art genre of surrealism, for which Dali was a master, rejects logic, reason, and natural order. It’s not meant to make sense—it’s meant to make you wonder. Surrealism invites us to see the familiar through new eyes, to wake up to mystery, to ponder life’s oddities and unseen truths.

And time—that slippery, melting thing—is one of those truths worth pondering.

Why does time seem to move differently depending on what we’re doing? Summer, for instance, barely begins before we’re already saying, “It’s going too fast!” We blink, and the long days are gone. Yet in other moments, time stretches out endlessly. Waiting for medical test results. Sitting in traffic. Counting down the hours until vacation. In those moments, time drips—slow and stubborn—as though Dali himself painted it.

Sometimes, I wish I could control time. Stretch it when life feels good, compress it when it hurts, pause it when beauty catches me off guard. But time won’t listen. It hums along at its own steady pace—yet somehow it feels so different depending on the state of our hearts. When I’m in the middle of creating something, time flies. When I’m folding laundry, it crawls. Maybe you’ve felt that too.

I once came across a quote that made me think:

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

Now that’s something to chew on. If time is a gift from God, then how we use it—how we live each passing second—ripples beyond what we can see. Time isn’t just something we move through; it’s the sacred space where we meet God.

When I think about how I spend my time, I realize how easily I get pulled out of the present. I plan for the future—too much. I replay the past—too much. Both can be useful, but both can also rob me of the only place I truly am: this moment, right now.

So my desired motto is simply: live in the now.Not the next thing. Not the last thing. Just this thing.

If you can, take a breath. Step away from the noise. Let yourself be pulled—gently—into the presence of the Almighty. Feel the sun on your skin, the hum of creation, the holy rhythm of time as it melts into eternity.

Right now is sacred. Right now is where God is. Don’t miss it.

Featured art: Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion (also known as The Melting Watch), Salvador Dali, 1954

“Walk in wisdom… making the best use of the time.” (Colossians 4:5)

“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12)