Centuries before Christ, the biblical
writer Qoheleth warned us that everything in this life is vanity:
Vanity of vanities,
everything is vanity.
He uses the word vanity
in a different sense than we do today.
For him, it does not connote a psychological narcissism or an unhealthy
preoccupation with our appearance and persona.
Rather, for him, vanity simply
means vapor, a passing mist, transience, impermanence, something that
disappears too quickly.
Experiencing that transience can give us a
heartache, but it can also make us search more deeply inside all this
impermanence for that which is permanent.
--Fr. Ron
Rolheiser OMI
Facebook, January
10, 2018
Image source: Earthquake
Rose, formed by a pendulum swinging during the 2001 Seattle earthquake, which
measured 6.8 on the Richter scale. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200105/zero-gravity.cfm . Be sure to clink on the link to get the full story!
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