"Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice...

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
~ Frederick Buechner ~












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