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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

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We laugh together like we never have before. Her face radiates pure joy. She's a good little dancer, music in her blood...maybe a word from God. She's so happy and strong , despite her world crumbling around her, that I can only gaze in awe. She leaps into the air, giving shape to the music that reposes in all matter, just waiting to be released. She liberates the music and, in her innocence, cannot know what she has done and thereby is all the stronger. Is God speaking to this tired old heart? Is God saying, "Look — don't you get it? She's as marvelous as a galaxy. You have nothing to fear. If I can call her into being, there's nothing I can't do. Now dance. Dance!"

~ from PLAGUE JOURNAL by Michael D. O'Brien
 
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