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Peace in the Wildness

Peace in the Wildness

and waiting for the beginning...Again.

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Grayish-green creek cutting through a stand of pines on the left and leafless grey trees on the right just as the creek bends around them. The ground in lightly covered in snow, but it is snowing so hard that the snowflakes have landed on the camera lens as this picture was shot.  On the far left side of the creek bank is a strip of treeless land and another stand of grey trees in the far background.  Sky is white-ish grey because of the heavy snow falling.
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Peace in the Wildness 

Advent,

the double when.

It’s both the march towards the

secular year’s end,

and the 30-day waiting for the beginning. Again.

There are four gospels we call “good news”

All have different starting points,

reflecting diverse views.

They come to the same end

irrespective of which of their paths

You choo…

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