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We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Garden
Unless
Dark
Never
Time
Bulbs
Like
Ignored
Totally
Spent

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