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Tiring of the Lenten fast the master asked his spiritual advisor what was stopping him from celebrating Easter sooner. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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On the story of Jesus sleeping in a boat during a storm: “Jesus sleeps spiritually in your heart as He once did in the body... rouse Him by prayer and waken Him with the cry of your desire.”—Walter Hilton (d 1398)
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“The U.S. ..., has a dysfunctional health care system not because it cannot afford a good one, but because its political worldview is so obscenely stunted by the worship of wealth that it refuses to acknowledge the communal good.” consortiumnews.com/2020/03/1…
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A reminder that physical proximity to Jesus was no guarantee of salvation. Those who taunted him on the cross or pounded the nails in his hands were just as close. But words of true faith—even uttered in the last moments of a wretched life—could open the doors of paradise.
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#MastersofSocialIsolation #10. In a time when Jewish children in Europe were hunted like vermin, Anne Frank did not choose her isolation. With her own and another family she was confined for 2 years in a “secret annex” in Amsterdam, never going out, keeping still all day.
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She kept a diary, not simply as a distraction but as a duty, a responsibility to render her experience and her feelings in the most accurate terms. Along with the everyday experiences of a young girl confined indoors she recorded very unchildlike reflections on her perilous life.
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“I see the 8 of us with our ‘Secret Annex’ as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surrounded by heavy black rain clouds. The ... spot where we stand is still safe, but the clouds gather more closely about us and the circle which separates us from the approaching danger...
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..closes more and more tightly.” Nevertheless she believed it was her duty to maintain her courage, cheerfulness, and belief in the essential goodness of people, and to uphold her ideals, “for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
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While acknowledging the suffering that surrounded her “piece of blue heaven” and the approaching thunder “which will destroy us too” she thanked God for “all that is good and dear and beautiful” and maintained her faith in a better world.
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Discovering that new health restrictions in the manor meant there was no one to draw his bath, the master exclaimed that “the cure must not be worse than the problem.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Too true.
God only brought one guy back from the dead on Easter. Trump is here to bring back the whole economy on Easter 2020. Enjoy this clip (possibly, like, the best ever), share and be sure to subscribe to Making Podcasts Great Again (@TrumpPod) - new every week!
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