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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame


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Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.



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Glory be to God for dappled things.



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Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.



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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.



For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.



ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.



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Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.



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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.





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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.



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