…from Brandon in the comments below.<\/p>\n
\n\nThe joy of the world as God created it is that not only do the little things point to and affect the big things, but even the littlest thing has a value that the Lord does not miss in his count of all things. Only a God-made-infant could arrange a world in which the most common of all people is offered, each day, the chance to participate in the salvation of the world by the careful love of so many little things.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The guy should be a writer or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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