Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against …

Madeleine L'Engle
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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). The Irrational Season, p.14, Open Road Media
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