If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our p…

Frederick Buechner
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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths. ✨ Frederick Buechner (1981). The hungering dark
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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths. ✨ Frederick Buechner (1981). The hungering dark

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