by Leslie » October 27th, 2005, 4:22 pm
Welcome, Riana!
That's a difficult question, and impossible to answer definitively on this side of the grave. It's difficult even to describe time as we know it - many great thinkers have tried to unravel the mystery of time, without much success.
I'm of the opinion that if there is music in heaven, there must be time there also.
Lewis had some thoughts on the nature of time in heaven. He suggested that time in heaven might be more like a solid object, rather than the line of time that we appear to travel in this life. I'm trying to find where he wrote this, but haven't been able to find it yet. (It may be in Mere Christianity, but my copy is in my teenage daughter's room, where I dare not enter.)
"What are you laughing at?"
"At myself. My little puny self," said Phillipa.
--Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede