We are ever grateful for the sacrifices made to combat Evil in all the ways it is manifest in our broken world.
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There's got to be another way.
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War is Hell. There are no winners. And few in this world ever remain untouched by its indignities, subtractions and horrors.
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Winter Solstice presents us with the dichotomy of beauty and struggle in both nature and human relationship.
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We wake, staying over at friends, and the day is heavy with falling snow. The large, slowly falling flakes flicker and shift and gently touch the ground. There is no wind.
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Our planet is but a small spec in a galaxy which is itself part of billions of stars and planets. And yes, from a distance it seems so beautiful, so ordered, peaceful and calm.
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I survive another November, my least favourite month of the year, and my spirit skips and my heart begins to lean, as in childhood years, towards the coming of Christmas.
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There are times when we feel really good about life and times when we don’t, times when we feel strong in faith and times when we don’t.
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You are the peace of all things calm
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Loving ourselves at the expense of loving others is contrary to the heart of the Gospel.
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What was it Jesus really came to do, to accomplish as one thinks of the individual needs of families, individuals, communities and nations?
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Who would have thought that such quick and steep descent into raw evil could have happened, as it has happned in Kenya just a few years ago during a national election.
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