Words that remain

Jesus was speaking about the future and said: learn a parable of the fig tree. When its branch is yet tender and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer is near. Many trees in Israel, like the olive, keep their leaves all year. The fig doesn't. It is a true seasonal tree.

Then this great word. Everything passes away: stars, mountains, empires. His words don't. Two thousand years later you are still reading them. Today too, here.