I have decided to push my own notion that the universe has already reached its limit of expansion and has begun contracting again. The accelerated expansion that we're seeing as we look further out is simply the light from an earlier time, when the universe was expanding at a faster pace, that is just now reaching us. Since we are now in contraction, we're moving away from it even more rapidly, hence, the appearance of faster expansion the farther out one looks.
I am not a cosmologist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Suites... once.
Oh, and as we accelerate in toward the center, our rate of acceleration is higher than that of stars and galaxies further out, so it will appear they are receding more rapidly than those closer in. Another factor in the apparent paradox.
Hey, this is fun!
So it is not my imagination that 'time' passes more quickly now; than it did a few years ago?