Aren't We All Time Travelers?

So I saw the new movie today "The Time Travelers Wife". Ugh. It was very sad. Basic overview of the movie is as follows. A little girl meets a man named Henry who comes and see's her on specific dates of the year. She waits for him, and he comes. She trusts him and tells him everything. He tells her his biggest secret, in that he travels through time. Each time he visits her he is a different age and from a different year. She falls in love with him. The movie is about their life. That she chooses a life with him. She marries him, knowing that he can disappear any moment. The thing is, he always comes back. He could be gone for a week, for a day, or even for a few minutes. But he always returns to her. Sometimes hurt, definitely broken hearted and scared. But she waits. The movie is about longing and love. It is about disappointments and learning to forgive. To let go, and be happy with what you have while you have it. 

As I drove home tonight, I thought about it for a while. I admired her strength. 

"I'm afraid of losing you." 
Clare smiles. "How could you lose me? I'm not going anywhere." 
"I worry that you will get tired of putting up with my undependableness and you will leave me." 
"But I never want to leave you." 
Clare puts her sketchbook aside. I sit up. "I won't ever leave you," she says. "Even though you're always leaving me." 

As I thought about the movie on my way home, something jumped out at me. Yes, this movie is about love. But I see something else wrapped up inside it as well. It seems as if  we are all time traveling. Do we not have a Beloved, who loves us no matter what, and yet what do we do? We leave the One who will never leave us. Deep down we never want to leave, but yet somehow we stray away from Him. Longing to be back into His arms of comfort. It isn't until we find ourselves as His feet broken, wishing we had never left do we realized we "time traveled" away. Each time the clock ticks we have the choice. To love, to follow, and to obey. Or, the clock can sweep us away into a different world of heartbreak and failure. At one point of the movie, Henry returns from a long "travel" and he looks at Clare and says "its okay now, I am not afraid". Is it only when we return to Him, that our fear is gone? That even though the clock keeps ticking and each second is traveled into time, time stands still for Him? We never want to leave Him, but yet we do. We never want to turn against Him and doubt Him but still we do. Each time, we travel into a new world of heartbreak. Until we hear that whisper. Until we remember that there is more. That there is something else. Time does not stop for the traveler. But it is only until we find our way into His loving arms, that the clocks ticking sound is drowned out by a heart beat. 

"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."