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Put the sunflower seeds in your pockets

So at least when you all lay down here

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Flowers will grow.

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I know my fair share of slurs, harsh

Sailor-Jerry language

But as far as curse words go,

Those,

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Those really have no equal.

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One of the keys, in understanding our theology,

In recognizing the nature of human beings

Relative to that

From which, presumably, they'd been created …

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Is that, despite all of God’s omnipotence -

His future, his past and his present,

His all seeing, all knowing,

His ineffable goodness -

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Is that it was better to create people

That were fallible, with free will,

Than it was to re-create

Perfect likenesses

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At all.

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You see, so many of us walk through this life

Believing that we are entitled enough, to live it

Without having to suffer - we perceive suffering

To be an ailment, a symptom of something

That isn’t supposed to be there, something

Outside, something besides the purpose of our lives.

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The magic of the creation stories, Milton’s rendition,

Especially, is that suffering becomes part of the design -

Not only is it inescapable, but it’s an inherent quality

Of that which affirms our very humanities:

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Free will, and fallibility …

Suffering and inevitability,

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Sorrow …

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Shadow …

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But sometimes,

And this is where the magic lies,

Shafts of light still grace the corners of our rooms

And that deep, hidden part of us

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Espouses, with those kernels of the truth.

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