How Long is Eternity

Steve Marshall and David Meeker used the following illustration to help young people begin understand eternity.

Imagine a steel ball the size of the earth. Then imagine a tiny mosquito fly into view and then toward the steel and then it just barely grazes the steel ball with the tip of its transparent wing. Then imagine 1000 years pass then the mosquito comes flying at the steel ball again and it just barely grazes the steel ball with the tip of its wing. This repeats over and over every thousand years.

Now think about this, by the time that mosquito wears that steel ball down to a spec of dust, Eternity will have just begun