Not Everything Changes

It seems like as life goes on things change.  At a first glance through time, it seems as though a great deal has changed over the course of world history.  Change is inevitable.  But there is a certain comfort in knowing that some things always stay the same...The important things...




Babies cry, kittens mew

Grass grows, wind blows
Rain falls, sun shines
Flowers bloom, leaves turn
The sound of a chirping cricket is the same now as it has ever been
The smell of a pine tree in the morning mist carries the same scent now as it ever has and always will
The feeling and comfort of being in the embrace of someone you love...
The inexplicable intoxication of a first kiss
The relieving quench of water on a thirsty pallet...
The rhythm of waves against the shore

While so many things seem to change, it is these divine miracles of existence that always have and will always stay the same.

Knowing this, we realize that things don't really change all that much.  People do the same things, in different ways is all.  A closer look at history reveals that all of the problems that humanity has suffered throughout time, are really all the same at the core.  There are variations only in how we deal with them, solve them and inevitably allow them to occur again.  Events wear different skins, but the roots are always the same.

This may seem monotonous but really we should take comfort in it.  It means that we are eternal.  Like the sound that rain makes when it hits a meadow.  The precise meadow may have stretched or moved, or even disappeared over time, but the important thing - the sound of the rain - will always be the same. And so shall our soul and the very soul of nature and all that is.

When the perceived changes in the modern world seem frightening and disquieting, take comfort in knowing that everything that really matters, never changed and never will.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
--Ecclesiastes 1:9