Nothing Is ... Forever! - Dada J P Vaswani
The winds continued to whistle as rain came smattering down against the window pane. The typhoon was raging outside as a family remained safe in the shelter of their home. A little girl lay in her bed afraid of the rolling roar of the thunder. She closed her eyes tightly and prayed to God. She slowly felt the reassurance of her mother’s arms around her, “Don’t worry, it’s just a storm. It will soon pass.” “But mummy, why does God make storms?” she asked. The mother replied softly, “To make us appreciate the sunny days.”
Friends, many times, we too are faced with storms, difficulties and depressing times in our lives. And we allow ourselves to be carried away by these storms. We forget that the storm will surely pass and give way to yet another bright, sunny day.
We live in a world in which nothing abides forever. Nothing abides because life is a movement in waves, waves come and waves go. Everything comes to pass. These problems that come to us, the difficulties that we find in our way, the obstacles that are set up on our path they will all pass. If only you remember this teaching that this too shall pass, whenever you are surrounded by a problem, you will see what strength and courage you get to face that problem.
