Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.