Before time

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This means God was before the beginning. The beginning is itself something He created — time, space, matter all originate with His creative act. He is not within time the way we are, carried along by its current. He holds all of time simultaneously, from every first moment to every last one, in the same eternal present. When I pray, I am not speaking into a void, hoping to catch the attention of someone busy elsewhere. I am speaking to the one who stands outside time and is therefore fully present to every moment of my life at once — past, present, and future. The God of the beginning is not a distant first cause. He is the one to whom all time belongs, which means He is never too late and never too early.