Changes have come and surely change will happen again. Life and Time force compromise and, to survive, we all ebb and flow. To do otherwise is to die, to have every breath of life eternally taken away, to be spirit-less. Gaze for a moment and allow your vision to take hold. This is for us a hallowed place.
Nothing is dead here.
It is where those in search have found the presence of God. Here the dreams and grandeur of those who commit themselves to one another begin their journey together, never knowing what life will place in their paths but always trusting their love will sustain them. In that singular moment the voices of the past pierce the silence and surround the emptiness with the knowledge that countless others have brought here their shattered dreams and lives so that comfort and love might destroy their feeling of being alone. But there are those other moments when the community comes together because we need to be joined in a bond that will connect us to the generations that went before and those still to come. No, there is nothing here that is dead.