Beautiful in Its Time

by Sarah Salviandar, PhD

“ Everything is meaningless, completely meaningless!” cries the Teacher in Ecclesiastes. He observes what many of us eventually come to realize: that people toil endlessly, generations come and go, no one is ever truly satisfied, what seems new is only old and nothing under the sun really changes. Ecclesiastes can feel bleak at first glance, and students of history might agree with the Teacher: The patterns of human existence repeat over and over, empires rise and fall, personal triumphs glimmer and fade. Against the backdrop of deep time, it’ s easy to wonder if anything we do truly matters.

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