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    I had just read the life of St. Matushka Olga Michaels of Alaska.It said for her burial, in November when the ground is frozen, for her, god granted the ground to be soft so her grave could be dug. The warm breeze unfroze the river so many of her friends could come to the service; when her friends had gone back across the river, it refroze.

    One
    If
    I asked the earth
    To open and receive me
    Would you catch me
    Before I fall?
    No, you would fall short.
    Can you
    Satisfy the hunger that consumes me?
    Or, are you a mere morsel.
    Can you
    Quench my parched soul?
    Or, is your water
    Too bitter
    To behold.
    There is but
    One
    Who will catch me. 
    There is
    One 
    Who can satisfy me.
    There is
    One 
    and only
    One
    Who can quench me dry soul.
    Who sees
    With the unseen eye
    There is
    One
    Who hears
    The cry of my heart
    There is
    One
     Who calms my passions
    Into quiet
    Peace.
    One
    Jesus.



     

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    The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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