One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.