Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being. If you become my disciples and pay attention to my sayings, these stones will serve you. For there are five trees in Paradise for you; they do not change, summer or winter, and their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death." (19 Thomas)

Our daily reality consists of ongoing change. Random change. Purposeful change. Change for which we have worked and prayed and change we have resisted and regret.

Each of us change. We age. We learn. Physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual change is nearly constant. All is in motion and in flux. This is what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell.

Yet we also perceive - and often prefer - a sense of continuity. Despite our regular experience of change, it is as if we once encountered the changeless and can not quite give it up.