Landscape

I have been reflecting on the landscape and how it changes. The landscape changes over time  with wind, water, hot, and cold. It changes through natural disasters and earth processes. The landscape is in a perpetual state of change. We can fight the effects of the change but change to the landscape is inevitable. Sometimes the change is a painful process. Sometimes the landscape changes so suddenly we can barely comprehend the change. The landscape can change in an instant.  If our life is a landscape we can see the change as we grow, learn, and change. The wrinkles form, the gray hairs come, the eyesight deteriorates. The landscape changes.  Something that was there like a lone pine  high on a hill falls or is blown down. The view changes your compass appears not to point true north any longer.  Change can come due to a great loss. It can be painful. If we knew what stood on that hill before our eyes will travel there still looking for it, even though we know it no longer stands. We want to make a phone call, listen to a voice, hear a song that can no longer be sung. However, there is something greater than this and something beyond this. We can bear the changing landscape if we know there is more. That the "more" is more than we can imagine.