But a moment in time...

Every once in a while, I need to remind myself that all the platitudes we hear, similar to “this, too, shall pass,” are so true. I know, of course, that the importance of a problem depends on the person with the problem, and on how it affects them.

I, like you, have read many a book or paragraph, seen many a movie, or heard many a sermon or homily, about putting our problems in perspective. I understand. At the moment I see or hear the words, it makes sense, and I promise myself to always keep it in mind. Then a day passes, a month, a year, and I have forgotten. Life gets in the way of sound thinking.

When I do manage to remember once more, everything falls into place. If I could just do that when something is happening, I wouldn’t be so stressed. We are but a moment in time. I need to ask myself, at the moment a problem surfaces, whether it would still seem that important a week from now, a month from now, a year from now.

A good example, one I should try to remember often, is our teenage years, and our childhood. The things that worried us seem trivial now. The things that we considered major life-or-death problems seem silly now. Looking back, we might wonder why on earth we thought they were so important.

So it is with our lives as adults. We are still growing in the spirit.

Heavenly Father, thank you for this insight; please bless me with its wisdom whenever I need to be reminded that I am just a moment in time, in eternity.