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Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;—
The things o'er which thou mournest—are they not playthings all?

— Angelus Silesius

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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.

Without Why
The rose is without why.
It blooms simply because it blooms.
It thinks not of itself,
And no display it show.

How fleeting is this world
yet it survives.
It is ourselves that fade from it
and our ephemeral lives.

In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send,
The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.

O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish,
You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.

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