When the veil which now encloses us is no more, time will also be no
more (D&C 84:100). Even now, time is clearly not our natural
dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time.
Alternately, we find ourselves impatiently wishing to hasten the passage
of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course. Whereas
the bird is at home in the air, we are clearly not at home in
time—because we belong to eternity! Time, as much as any one thing,
whispers to us that we are strangers here. If time were natural to us,
why is it that we have so many clocks and wear wristwatches?
~ (Neal A. Maxwell, “Patience,” Ensign, October 1980, p. 31.)
