As the Cathedral of Notre Dame burned earlier this month, it caused me to pause. It was in that long dark canyon, constructed 800 years ago, that I had prayed for an acquaintance who passed in 1972.
Each of us has special places which evoke memories of people and things past. Some of these places are man-made, the Parliament, the U.S. Capitol Building, a church, a synagogue, a temple or a special place of meditation we have frequented or observed. As humans we like to think these human constructed places will last forever. However, the only constant in the universe is change.