Yes, I agree! I love your essay so much! I watched the footage on YouTube of the reopening of Notre Dame and watched the first Mass said there and felt a solace and peace of soul that I have not felt at all on 2024, due to all of the terrible happenings all over the world and in this country. Even now, reading your essay, I am crying for all of the losses ahead of us and the killings and the suffering of so many innocent people and women and especially the children. I am lucky enough to be able to pray and envision returning to Paris to walk into Notre Dame again one morning early, to see the sun rise behind the Rose 🌹 Windows. But I want to leave tomorrow because I have so little faith right now in the future. I thank all of the wonderful, skilled and dedicated craftsmen and women and workers and painters who have restored Notre Dame within a miraculous period of 5 years. I hope and pray that Notre Dame will remain on earth for centuries more and will bring love and honor for the spiritual 🙏 to mankind during this troubling year. Thank you again for your beautiful essay. 🌹💐❤️💛🌟✨️🙏
Thank you so much Amy! Very kind of you to say so. The reopening ceremony was fantastic - even though my French wasn't up to following the conversations I was just loving taking it all in.
This wonderful piece captures how the material can be a lens to the spiritual. Nicely done!
Thank you so much Russell!
Yes, I agree! I love your essay so much! I watched the footage on YouTube of the reopening of Notre Dame and watched the first Mass said there and felt a solace and peace of soul that I have not felt at all on 2024, due to all of the terrible happenings all over the world and in this country. Even now, reading your essay, I am crying for all of the losses ahead of us and the killings and the suffering of so many innocent people and women and especially the children. I am lucky enough to be able to pray and envision returning to Paris to walk into Notre Dame again one morning early, to see the sun rise behind the Rose 🌹 Windows. But I want to leave tomorrow because I have so little faith right now in the future. I thank all of the wonderful, skilled and dedicated craftsmen and women and workers and painters who have restored Notre Dame within a miraculous period of 5 years. I hope and pray that Notre Dame will remain on earth for centuries more and will bring love and honor for the spiritual 🙏 to mankind during this troubling year. Thank you again for your beautiful essay. 🌹💐❤️💛🌟✨️🙏
Thank you so much Amy! Very kind of you to say so. The reopening ceremony was fantastic - even though my French wasn't up to following the conversations I was just loving taking it all in.
So Happy that you could be there for the opening ceremonies! Happy New Year to you!