While I have always thought that religion is not the solution but the problem, I have no problem with believers so long as they at least try to understand why Science has rendered their mythologies moot.
I would pay a ton to read the story of you, Jay and your friends.
Beauty sometimes is momentary, like the thing captured in a photograph, only there for an instant, then changed and forgotten- except for the camera.
Saw a piece on TV that tested cell phones for vermin and phones, because of where we put them, leave them, etc., were dirtier than toilet seats!
My angel, Hobbes, asked for "prayers and candles" on Facebook for you and Brunswick and he got over fifty 'heart' comments and sympathies for you. Didn't mention your names.