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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
All life is sacred! Even the blessed earth you take into your mouth.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
And in the fall, the cold would wither that which was known, scattering new seed. In the spring, that which had been sleeping awoke and a new season of beauty began. For Life seeks life and builds a bridge across the darkest valley.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Be angry. But don't be bitter.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Because you tred upon my dreams, the world is made of magic things.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Be patient, child!” said the Music. “But she will forget me.” “Do not worry, child. I am there. I shall not forget.”And she stared out at the planets and gentle stars and the galaxies and became forlorn for she had known a special love.“The Universe is so large, just look at it!” she cried. “Believe.” The Music sang.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Every time, Love pushed down the door where her loneliness lived. The Music came and sealed the chamber of her heart. She was filled with clear sweetness that was there from the start.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
God made the wolf but Man made the dog.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
God made the wolf but man made the dog. When we look at a dog, we see the best in ourselves.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
God made the wolf. Man made the dog.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
God requires solitude and quiet – this is part of the way He instructs us to pray to Him. We are obligated through our Love to worship Him as He sees fit. This is not the law. This is the language of Love: we love Him in the way He chooses for us to Love Him.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
He is Jesus, only. God has revealed Himself to us through Jesus. Jesus is what God wanted us to know and to love. He is not Napoleon the Great. He is not Alexander the Great. He is Jesus only. He is enough. My purpose in life is to worship Jesus and, in so doing, become more Christ-like
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
He tossed a word like a ball, never letting it fall. Instead it swam in the air, without care, strung together with an art that came straight from his heart.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
I am all for science, but science can never tell us why we find the stars so beautiful.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
I love you, Shadow. I want you to go now,” Theo said quiet-ly. “You can go, Shadow. Walk with me. C’mon, I’m just ahead of you. Come on, climb away from that old body of yours. Walk with me. Do you see me? I’m just ahead of you on the beach. See? You can now run fast ‘cause you have all your legs, again. Can you feel them, boy?
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
It is easy to kill a demon. It is much harder to kill a man.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
It would have been easy for Theo to grow ironic. He could walk through life with a paradoxical chip on his shoulder, with skin like armor. But Alice did not want to raise a boy who looked at life askew. Alice wanted her son to greet the day with elation. She wanted to raise her boy into a wholesome man.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Love is the reason why, in confusion, we understand.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Master the dog and you shall master yourself.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
More than happiness or joy or lower blood pressure, the practice of God’s presence gives us meaning. Through this practice we become more closely aligned with Jesus and we learn His desire for us more completely.Life can be hard. The Practice of The Presence of God makes it easier. As Brother Lawrence said, “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Neither train nor plane, neither GPS nor human caress can take you to the address of happiness.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Of all the guile! How can you be objective? You have no perspective! You’re only 16!
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
One day, all those who love in the society of Auld Lang Syne shall meet again. In the New City of the Burning Heart, there, the veil will drop. The arc of the seas shall finally know the skies. Day and night shall end. The clock tower will crumble. Time shall fly to the place of no more. For we were born for meaning. We were born to love. There, we shall all be together with all the lovelies ever known who chose mercy and kindness amidst the forget-me-nots and the countless stars.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Quiet breathed like some darkening monster at the window of Theo’s mind He could not say “bad dog.” He could not say “good boy.” He could not say anything. .
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Shadow’s heart stopped. While Theo did not observe it with his eyes, he felt the life juice leave the dog’s body. In the final shudder of the death throe, Shadow gave up his ghost.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
She became the bad company that she kept.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
She brought a chicken from the coop to the chopping block. She kissed the hen’s beak in gratitude, knowing the hen would nourish many youngsters through her sacrifice. After the blessing, Oota Dabun took an ax to the hen’s neck. The death was instant. Painless. Such is the mercy that comes from the slayer who knows one day he or she shall also be slain.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Since that night you walked through my dreams, the world is full of magic things.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie’s heart had somehow faded with it.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Sometimes, it's important to turn off the noise from the outside world. Sometimes, it's critical to stop the banter even within oneself. Intentional solitude and quiet can make us strong for tomorrow.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Take heart. Love has overcome the wild world. Dogs were once wolves.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
The breeze carried the music into the distant country plains, past the bullet trains, across the majestic cornfields and the Christmas tree farms. The music swept past the Georgia orange trees, the droning honeybees, and the shining seas of the Atlantic. It wafted past the London Pier. Young Britney wanted all of Nod to hear.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
The dog is a result of fear transformed into love.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the essence of our human form and changes us from within. He fills us with joy, love and peace. He subdues our passions and transforms our very being into the likeness of Christ.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Their wedding night was at a little hotel in Paris. There were walk up steps and a lovely view. And all was well for these two.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
Then an odd thing happened. Britney put her finger on the ridge of the painted glass and rubbed it. It made a perfect noise. The kind of noise that goes on and on as a beautiful noise does once it has wrung the ear. It was the chord of the wild sea.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
There is peace in play.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
The woman of her dreams went into her arms without shame or awkwardness as the boldness of Love overcame them both.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.
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By AnonymDavid Paul Kirkpatrick
They would be a duet. They would be happy. What is happy, anyways?
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