Daily Lesson for October 3, 2014

Today's daily lesson comes from Psalm 102 verses 25 through 27:

25 Of old you laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They will perish, but you will remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
27 but you are the same, and your years have no end.

Last night we had a party at the house for one of the Sunday School classes. The living room was full of the joy and laughter of children. Then one of the kids broke our antique clock.

So it wasn't the first time it's been broken. My kids have broken it like six times in the same way. I am grateful that in all the times a glass panel has been knocked back into the body of the clock no glass has shattered yet.

But it will. It's inevitable. Seven times broken. That means we're coming up on eight,which isn't far from nine, which means we're running out of lives. I'm grieving already. 

And it's all just a little reminder that things fall apart. That everything wears out. That nothing -- nothing -- lasts forever. Even the heavens will pass away, and how much more so the things of this earth. 

All the clocks will eventually stop their ticking. All relationships, jobs, industries, churches, and antique anythings are temporal; only God is eternal. 

They who cannot accept impermanence will always have the sense that the clock is running out. 

They who can accept impermanence will be free to discover and enjoy what is eternal in the time being.