Passing Through (life)

Passing Through

by Paul Kowalewski

Yesterday morning while driving my car, I passed by a dad and his two little boys waiting for the school bus. The boys looked very much like my own boys did back when they first started school, and when I looked at them standing there with their dad, for a moment, I became very nostalgic – even melancholy.

My boys are adults now; one of them is married. “Where did the time go?” I thought.

Then just as I was about to lapse into reminiscences of those happy days when I was the one waiting with two boys for a school bus, wishing that somehow I might go back in time and stop the clock, I snapped out of it.

As I looked at those two boys and their dad at that bus stop, I had a moment of clarity, a moment of crystal clear insight, realizing that life is never about permanence. The one stable factor about this life on earth is that it is never stable. Life is always about “passing through” it all.   READ MORE

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