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Where Is God? - Mark Nepo

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 It's as if what is unbreakable - the very pulse of life- waits for everything else to be torn away, and then in the bareness that only silence and suffering and great love can expose, it dares to speak through us and to us. it seems to say, if you want to last, hold on to nothing. if you want to know love, let in everything. if you want to feel the presence of everything, stop counting the  things that break along the way.

Hope - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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 Hope has holes in its pockets. It leaves little crumb trails so that we, when anxious, can follow it. Hope's secret: it doesn't know the destination- it knows only  that all roads begin with one foot in front of the other.

Wisdom Tells me - Nisagardatta Maharj

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 Wisdom tells me I am nothing Love tells me I am everything Between the two, my life flows

To Keep a True Lent - Robert Herrick (1648)

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 This a fast, to keep the larder lean? And clean  from veals and sheep? Is it to quit the dish of flesh, yet still to fill the platter high with fish? Is it to fast an hour, or ragg'd to go, or show a downcast look and sour? No; 'tis a fast to dole thy sheaf of wheat and meat unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from strife, from old debate  and hate; to circumcise thy life, To show a heart grief-rent; to starve thy sin, not bin; and that's to keep thy Lent.

Don't Ask - Howard Thurman

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 Don't ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive and do it Because what the world needs is people who have come alive

Inspiration - Madeleine L'Engle "Lent 1966"

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 It is my Lent  to break my Lent, To eat when I would fast, To know when slender strength is spent, Take shelter from the blast When I would run with wind and rain, To sleep when I would watch.  It is my lent to smile at pain But not ignore its touch. It is my Lent to listen well When I would be alone, To talk when I would rather dwell In silence, turn from none Who call on me, to try to see That what is truly meant Is not my choice. If Christ's I'd be It's thus I'll keep my Lent.