We are grateful for your faithfulness, but the structures you built and
maintained so faithfully are choking us to death. We would ask that you let go. It is time
to accept their death. But death, whatever form it takes, does not have to be a
repudiation of your efforts. Death accepted as the forerunner to resurrection is worthy of
humble celebration. Just as when a saintly loved one departs there is grief with
joy, so also you must consider the end of much of what you have built as a cause for grief
with joy. Such a response will be your final act of faith. However, if you cannot let what
you have built die where necessary, you have simply condemned it to death anyway without
the joy that comes from the hope of resurrection. This is the face of the defining moment
for you, as a generation.