The
sun rose this morning; but then the sea mist rolled in, turning the disc of the
sun from gold to silver before obscuring it completely, scattering and diffusing
its light.
I
am reminded of Ecclesiastes, one of my favourite books of the Bible,
which speaks of life in terms of what is enduring, and ephemeral. The sun rises
and sets; winter gives way to spring, gives way to summer, gives way to autumn,
gives way to winter again; rain feeds rivers, which run to the sea, from where
clouds rise, to fall as rain; we are born, live, and die, giving birth to and
burying others along the way, and so life goes on. We live in, and as part of,
a fundamentally dependable, ordered creation; and everything is beautiful in
its time, wearisome when we try to hold it back or hold on to it—for we can no
more do so than grasp the mist in our closed fist. Life endures; life is
fleeting. Receive the moment, for what it is, and the next, for what it will
be.
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