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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">What a great writing. So our question.
And being in community is becoming real important for me.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you, thank you, Ellie.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Phyllis</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/16/2025 5:49 AM, Ellie Stock via
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How Then Shall We LIve? (in such a time as this . . .)</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> <span><b
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">HOW
THEN SHALL WE LIVE?</span></i></b></span> <br>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">What
do we call what calls from the deep,</span></i></b></span><br>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
pulses through stars and quickens heart’s beep,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
surges through waves and cleanses with fire,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">emerges
from dust and breathes soul’s desire?</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">What
do we name what mocks human pride,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
bends the Tree of Life, sustaining being’s tide?</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><br>
</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How
do we greet what calls to our deep,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
lasers vulnerabilities and loves us from fear’s
sleep,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
mourns lost illusions and leaves us defenseless,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">transforms
the present moment and awakens all senses?</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How
do we embrace what eternalizes finitude,</span></i></b></div>
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style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
opens wide portals, flooding tears of gratitude?</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><br>
</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How
do we know what calls us to decide,</span></i></b></div>
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style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
gives no guarantee and provides no place to hide,</span></i></b></div>
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style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">t</span></i></b><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">hat
beckons all our care and trumps the doubt within,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">reckons
despair and hope and connects all creature kin?</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How
do we abide in what struggles to create,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
explodes time and space, freeing partners with
Earth’s fate?</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><br>
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style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How
then shall we live what chisels passion’s edge,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
re-sculpts past’s confoundings and empowers future’s
wedge,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that
compels us far beyond mind’s strength or comfort
zone,</span></i></b></div>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b
style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">propels
trusting steps into great work’s bidding unknown?</span></i></b></div>
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style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How
shall we now journey in vast community</span></i></b></div>
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style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">with
that which journeys through us profoundly and
boundlessly?</span></i></b><b
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></i></b></div>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> ~
ejhs</span></i></b></div>
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