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Gabriela8 Wrote: Dec 25, 2012 6:59 PM

For AmyDB, "I fled him down the nights and down the days I fled him, down the arches of the years... But with unhurrying chase, and unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic intimacy, They beat---and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet--- 'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me.' " excerpt, "Hound of Heaven" by Francis Thompson

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God With Us

WASHINGTON -- This is a Christmas season shadowed by sorrow. We know, of course, that human beings, even small ones, sometimes die in horrible, unfair ways. But all the horror and unfairness seemed to arrive at once in Newtown, where some parents wake on Christmas Day, if they slept at all, to mourn their absent children.

These events brought to mind a sermon by William Sloane Coffin, delivered 10 days after his son Alex was killed in a car accident. "When parents die," he said, "they take with them a large portion of the past. But when children die,...

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