Know what happens when you visit the master work of an architect you’ve loved for a very long time but who’s work you never expected to experience in real life?

A wellspring of tears.

Today I visited the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. I was there for 3 1/2 hours. It will take me twice that time to write about it. It has taken most of my life to get from college slide lectures to standing under the transept.

In Hebrew, this experience would be described as bashert.