On Nothing Lasts Forever

 Why does nothing last forever? Why can’t some of our great loves walk with us until the very last day? Some of us are lucky enough to be the first to go, but this means that someone else will be left behind. Everything changes, no matter how hard we may try to hold something in place. Perhaps the problem is that we are trying to keep forms from shifting rather than concentrating on essences. The German rocket scientist, Werner von Braun, once said that “there is no extinction, only transformation,” and he may have the heart of it. 

Natural Order.....

We cannot ask a form to last longer than its natural order provides. Perhaps we can prolong it a bit, but not overlong. The bearded iris is a flower of magnificent flashes of color and shaping, but its frothy finery lasts only one day, and then it begins to decay, whereas the moth orchid is a small jewel of a blossom that sparkles for several weeks. Even an esteemed mountain may be climbed by the adventurous for eons but will eventually crumble into something else. 

"Foreverness"

Is there no “foreverness” to be found in all our changes? Maybe…if we have thought about the distinction between ephemera and essence, if we are aware of dimension as well as place. Have we sought and found within ourselves a spiritual dimension that moves with us through all the ephemeral sojourns, where the remembered happiness of forms is ever with us? Our comings and goings may seem to pass without notice at a deep, spiritual level, but believers know it underlies all and that there is a difference between nothing and no-thing!

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