Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no … - Andrea Gibson

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If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

Andrea Gibson

Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.

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I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.

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Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

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and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

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I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror  on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror  on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty  could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.

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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.

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