“So we should still love this world?

“Then why are we so afraid when the inn begins to shake? Why does losing the world we know feel like the greatest loss imaginable?

“So we are still bound to be law-abiding citizens even though we know the earthly order is temporary?

“Vladyka, isn’t it cynical to call earthly life merely a waiting room? Doesn’t that diminish everything God has given us in this life?

“So our home, our work, the country we live in, the people around us – none of that is evil?

“Of course.

“But how are we supposed to live in this world, then? Build a home, raise children, work – when all of it can disappear overnight?

“So Rome fell because of pride?

“Vladyka, you witnessed the collapse of something everyone thought unshakable. Rome had stood for a thousand years. How do you go on living when stability itself has become a thing of the distant past?