Constancy

I've always appreciated change, the relentless force that pushes life onward and outward in all directions and deviations across the mercurial pattern of days. But the truly valuable things are those that endure, insufferably, in a slow and stately manner the ebb and flow of every whim and inconsistency — the threads that remain unbroken, the roots that dig deeper with time into the impoverished soil of modern living, and that bind together with an unaccountable firmness what is effete and inebriated, like the grasp of God's hand.