an advent gift

Allow me to record this: that this has been on transcendent day, when somehow things just felt right, in a way they have not felt right for a long time. For some reason, i just feel assured that, in the words of Julian of Norwich, all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
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To feel once again the joy of words, to meet once again (and so unexpectedly) a dear old friend, to feel so blessed to have found a church like the one i'm in right now (and to know that nowhere else in the world will i find a church quite like it) -- all this, on the first day of Advent, is cause for rejoicing.
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