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That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. But at the same time we are also created. In the Koran, Allah asks, “The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?”
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Sometimes what we are witnessing is simply a massive exercise in missing the point. Jesus frees us to call things what they are.
She concluded with a statement of her philosophy: “Running through all the stories, like a golden thread, is the same thought of the values of life. They were courage, self reliance, independence, integrity and helpfulness. Cheerfulness and humor were handmaids to courage.”
Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser
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