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Almost one year ago, in the week leading up to Christmas, I met “the driftwood artist<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I wonder if he is still there peddling his art on that part of coastal highway that runs through St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n

And, \u00a0I wonder if all of life, really, is about cobbling together something beautiful out of the broken pieces.<\/p>\n

There is always pain, I suspect, in giving birth to anything of great beauty or value to us- be it a child, or a book, or a marriage.<\/p>\n

Or a whole new world:\u00a0Jesus on the cross. \u00a0Jesus in a manger.<\/p>\n

It’s a mystery by which I want my life to be encircled and held together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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