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What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.
Despair takes us in when we
have nowhere else to go;
when we feel the heart
cannot break anymore, when
our world or our loved ones
disappear, when we feel we
cannot be loved or do not
deserve to be loved, when
our God disappoints, or
when our body is carrying
profound pain in a way
that does not seem to go away.
(from “Despair”)
What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.
Despair takes us in when we
have nowhere else to go;
when we feel the heart
cannot break anymore, when
our world or our loved ones
disappear, when we feel we
cannot be loved or do not
deserve to be loved, when
our God disappoints, or
when our body is carrying
profound pain in a way
that does not seem to go away.
(from “Despair”)
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