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Learning to Pray the Defiant Fragility of a Rose

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IMG_4833In a world where brutality, cruelty, and vengefulness grow and blossom out of the soil of hatred long nourished, a world where seeds of compassion, hope, and forgiveness seem harder to sow and propagate,
 
there is this rose, fragile, lovely, and transient –
 
a reminder that beauty is real, and life is a gift to be cherished in us, and in each of all those other people who share our humanity, and who are caught up in cycles of violence, conflict and despair.
So we keep sowing the seeds of compassion, hope, and forgiveness.
 
And we keep praying for peace, as a disposition of resistance and a standpoint of trust.
And we live what we pray for. Or so it seems to me.

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