"Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gen...
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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