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The Providence of Books
“It is sometimes given to us, this lovely emptiness, and then the Holy Spirit can fill it . . . .” Madeleine L’Engle . . . and it happens,...
Working with Clay
Like the imprintof my two thumbs in clay,so you appear, my Lord,by what you leave behind. Disguisedin the tracery of fingerprint,the whorls a worldof delicate, true lines,you are revealed....