Universal Constant

More and more I am struck by an increasing awareness of the impermanence of all things. It’s a universal truth that I’m learning to embrace. All things have a shelf-life. Everything has an expiration date. Things get old. Things fall apart. Things stop working. Things die, or just become useless. There’s no one thing that escapes the process of perishing or changing. Yet, we often carry on as if nothing has changed, resistant to the inevitable march of time. Despite the obvious, we hang onto these things anyway. Nonetheless, everything has a season. The Bible tells us “there is a time and purpose for everything under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 3: 1). Change, dear friend, is the one and only universal constant.