Nothing in this life is lasting. If you think about it, the Book of the Apocalypse says at the end of time God will destroy creation and recreate heaven and Earth.
Everything except our immortal souls and resurrected bodies will cease to exist. That is the raw truth of everything in this world Except for God’s grace, everything is fragile Everything can quickly and suddenly break, fall apart, and disintegrate.
Our health, finances, property, relationships, jobs, the state of society, the state of the human element of the Church. It is all fragile. One moment someone is in relatively good health, the next moment they could be in a health crisis.
One moment someone is alive, the next moment they have died. One moment you think your livelihood is secure, the next moment you’re jobless and on the street. We walk down the part of life knowing that around the next bend could be another crisis, since life is both a series of blessings, mixed with s series of crises.
All this brings our focus and attention instead on the eternal, that which is not fragile but the opposite, that which is absolutely permanent. Which of course is God, our mighty fortress and foundation.
May we cling with all our might to Him our eternal pillar, as we are surrounded by winds and storms of all kinds.