Meditation on Space-Time portrays a man's struggle to discover his identity in contemporary society, to sacrifice for his friends, and to take the road less traveled. Even as Father Lawrence hears a stranger's confession, he dreams of probability waves, black holes, and temporal loops. He came to Gilead searching for his friend Camellia, not to hear about seducing women, framing rivals, and laundering church funds.

After a chase through the sanctuary into the church graveyard, Father Lawrence finds a note revealing a connection to Camellia. When he learns Camellia is pregnant with the stranger's child, he realizes the time to play ostrich is over. Ever since a girl he counseled committed suicide, he prefers contemplating the duality of space-time to sorting out his own emotions.

Faced with betrayal, he locks himself in his cabin, torn between retreating to his meditation on space-time and confronting the villain. He renounces his vow, learns to equate a dollar with a cheeseburger, and buys a gun without knowing how to load it. As he searches for his enemy, Father Lawrence contemplates death, only to hear three shots saluting the dark night. Either mercy or justice; either salvation or friendship.

For readers who would savor the hero's every laugh and tear as if each were bittersweet chocolate, Meditation on Space-Time offers a brilliant bit of poetic science.