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After Sorrow

How terribly the rice suffers under the pestle!

How terribly the rice suffers under the pestle!
But it emerges polished, as white as cotton.
The same process tempers the human spirit:
Hard trials shape us into polished diamonds.

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Shh!
Come in
within

I AM here

take off your shoes
kneel down
and
worship
wordlessly
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~ by Mary Frances Reis, BVM
 

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