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To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.

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We are not here to solve the problems the problems are here to solve us.
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God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
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