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Poem of the Month: June 2007

Love Does That All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only burros. And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting than physical labor. Once in a while a kind monk comes to her stable and brings a pear, but more than that, he looks into the burro's eyes and touches her ears and for a few seconds the burro is free and even seems to laugh, because love does that. Love frees. --Meister Eckhart Journal prompts: What worries are you carrying? How easy or difficult is it for you to release worries when you carry them? Who is the "kind monk" in your life who frees you? Begin a write, "Love frees...."

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