Life Goes On

This year will be different for our family. As one son goes off with his new bride and the other to a new school I realize that turns are being made at the crossroads. I always new these turns would come but not so soon? I ask myself the question, "What will life look like now?"

As their life changes it causes my life to change as well. As their journey takes them in another direction it causes mine to go a different one as well.

My husband leaves for his interview for a new job. Another turn.

"We need to downsize," my husband declares.

"No!" I scream in my heart - "Not yet." For some reason I long to hang onto what I still have. I am letting go of so many other things now. Just a little while longer.

Why am I so unsettled? Though the earth rumbles, the ocean waves crash against the rocks, and the clouds pass through the heavens - life goes on. When the rains fall and the thunder cracks the sky life goes on. The dust storms blow, the trees bow to the strong winds, and even then life goes on. Green blades of grass are pulled from the earth and thrown to a new land - life goes on. The seeds of flowers are scattered throughout the earth and life goes on. The trees rustle and the fish splash against the river - life goes on.

The world, and all that is in it, is in constant motion. Everything is always moving. Life continues to flow here and there. Even in the midst of our stillness movement is ever present. Life goes on.

"There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace."

Ecclesiastes 3

Life goes on - - -