Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will not pass away.
—Luke 21.33
You will pass away.
This generation and the next will disappear.
This nation will go down into the dust.
Governments will shrivel like dried leaves
and blow away into the earth.
We may delay or hasten our end,
but it will come.
Soon or later, the whole human family
will be no more.
All our good and evil will pass away.
But the love of God does not die or change.
Grace will outlast our failings.
The blessed oneness of all living beings
will pulse with light
long after all beings have passed.
Whatever losses we fear,
whatever disasters threaten us,
they will pass.
Whatever the children of the Beloved suffer,
their belovedness will not fade or tremble.
Even as we fear the heating of our globe
and the ripping of our society,
the Goodness at the heart of all things
remains, forever and ever.
Cling to this, not what passes,
and you will know life that is eternal.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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