A quiet joy – or a turbulent delight?

Stevie Krayer writes about her experience of ‘the eternal’

by Stevie Krayer 28th September 2018

Is the eternal about ‘universal absolutes’ that ‘cannot change’? Not for me. The only unchanging absolute in the universe is, I feel, change itself. The notion of immutable truth almost causes me to shudder. Immutability seems to me the characteristic of things that are cold and dead. The whole cosmos is dynamic, constantly evolving, and in continual and rapid motion through space, though it appears majestically static to us because we are just specks with a lifespan of less than the blink of an eye. I feel something of the same can be said about truth; and some Friends seem to share this perspective. John Wilhelm Rowntree once wrote that it was ‘not a fixed crystal’.