{"id":9023,"date":"2019-04-16T01:39:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2019-04-16T04:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T09:41:17","slug":"notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9023","title":{"rendered":"notre dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/3050465656\/in\/album-72157609673803513\/\" title=\"The Big Window\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3226\/3050465656_3a05e9bc0a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"The Big Window\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When Rudi and I traveled to France in November 2008, we visited Notre Dame on our first day in Paris. I was jetlagged and definitely dozed off in a pew while a tour guide was talking to us, but I was struck by the magnificence of the building and its grand history.<\/p>\n<p><center><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/3049627229\/in\/album-72157609673803513\/\" title=\"Notre Dame\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3149\/3049627229_2c2d8f9971.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Notre Dame\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s fire is saddening, but when you consider how much was saved and that no loss of life &#8212; from the public, the clergy, or firefighters &#8212; occurred, it is difficult to consider it a complete tragedy. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/3050464696\/in\/album-72157609673803513\/\" title=\"The View\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3161\/3050464696_be27d5e962.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"The View\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Horrible things occur, and this is horrible indeed. But not so horrible that it stands as the final period at the end of this particular story. This is not &#8220;the end.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/3050489486\/in\/album-72157609673803513\/\" title=\"The Big Window\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3210\/3050489486_f32eea8eca.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The Big Window\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Faith and love are stronger than stone and glass and centuries&#8217; old wood. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/3049650703\/in\/album-72157609673803513\/\" title=\"Joan of Arc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3009\/3049650703_5974f603be.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Joan of Arc\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The children&#8217;s rhyme perseveres for a reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is the church. Here is the steeple. 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