unknowingly united.

I took this photo last fall while I was in Berlin. The Church of St. Mary and The Television tower are both located near Alexanderplatz.

At the time, I did not realize the irony that exists in this image. I simply thought it was an interesting angle, one that represented a shift in architecture style- traditional meets modern/post WWII communism.

However, this afternoon I've been working on a speech criticism of Ronald Reagan's "Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate," and came across this section of the text:

"Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw: treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed."

Interesting today to look back at my photograph and see how despite my attempt to capture a shift in changing times, I was actually capturing an unshakable unity.