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Susan Cottrell·June 18, 2014
Why was the shoe stopped by the hall monitor? Because it was being knotty.  🙂 What is the...
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Susan Cottrell·June 17, 2014
  Shun your gay child? Don’t even have a meal with them? This is not the heart of...
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Kenny Pierce·June 16, 2014
Grace isn't always an easy gift. Grace demands that you be open to it. It demands that you see it for what it is. An embrace. A beckoning to a body much greater, and more whole, than yourself. It demanded of me that I consider something unfathomable. "You haven't figured it all out, child. And you never fully will."
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Robert Lofgren·June 16, 2014
You haven’t walked a mile in my shoes. You have not even walked a mile beside me. You...
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Susan Cottrell·June 14, 2014
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Susan Cottrell·June 11, 2014
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