tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34705951843708123352024-03-13T11:41:14.766-07:00The Stations of The Crossalan1704http://www.blogger.com/profile/16068631142963794991noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470595184370812335.post-3170492502255604992013-02-09T02:18:00.002-08:002013-02-09T02:18:55.424-08:00The Road to Redemption<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Accused with lies</div>
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Grazed with deceits injustice</div>
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Distorted truth</div>
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Innocent.</div>
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Confronted with pain</div>
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Ripped with crimson scars</div>
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Violent embrace</div>
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Rejected.</div>
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Exhausted and fettered</div>
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Gashed with unforgiving hate</div>
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Tortured reputation</div>
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Reduced to nothing</div>
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And utterly despised</div>
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Condemned.</div>
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II</div>
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Ignorant of love</div>
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Draped in a purple cloak</div>
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Woven with ruby tears</div>
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Reviled</div>
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Suspended by darkness</div>
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Impaled on mocking thorns</div>
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Ridiculed torment</div>
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Passion</div>
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Bearing our pain</div>
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Crushed beneath the weight</div>
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Outpoured love</div>
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For splintered incision</div>
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And cruel nails</div>
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Acceptance.</div>
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III</div>
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He fell</div>
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Paralyzing pain</div>
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Experiencing our weakness</div>
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Abandoned</div>
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Unable to stand</div>
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Enveloped in the struggle</div>
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Brutal treatment</div>
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Helpless</div>
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Shouldering the weight</div>
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Stricken with affliction</div>
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Desolate moments</div>
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From earthly dirt</div>
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And human fallibility</div>
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Exhausted.</div>
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IV</div>
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He met her eyes</div>
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The gaze of sweet compassion</div>
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Mothers anguish</div>
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Love</div>
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Beyond spoken words</div>
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The natural grace of substance</div>
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Taste tenderness</div>
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Selflessness</div>
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For love she beheld</div>
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In the mystery of redemption</div>
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Blissful vision</div>
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Poured out worthiness</div>
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And sacrificed wholeness</div>
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Embrace</div>
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In failing moments</div>
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Sharing the despised humiliation</div>
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Hurtful tribulation</div>
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Encounter</div>
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Every natural compassion</div>
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Transformed by the mocking crowd</div>
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Mercilessly scorned</div>
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Rejected</div>
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Carry the weight</div>
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Receive the heavy affliction</div>
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Suffering shared</div>
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For heavens glory</div>
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And tender presence</div>
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Burdened.</div>
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Kindness and mercy</div>
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His face tortured in dust</div>
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Burning ordeal</div>
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Courage</div>
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Pain and distress</div>
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His face knowing the sorrow</div>
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Encountering death</div>
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Vanquished</div>
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Malice and insults</div>
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Hurled in his face</div>
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Determined compassion</div>
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Beneath changing appearances</div>
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And outward bruises</div>
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Expression</div>
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Prince of life</div>
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Kiss the hard ground</div>
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Abandoned struggle</div>
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Prostrate</div>
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Bereft of heaven</div>
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Ceased to function</div>
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Stretched inside</div>
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Powerless</div>
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Human weakness</div>
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Evidence of earthly shell</div>
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Flakes of flesh</div>
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Forward to death</div>
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And sufferings hill</div>
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Onward</div>
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VIII</div>
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Tears of lamentation</div>
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Flowing rivers that weep</div>
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Condemned fidelity</div>
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Ordained</div>
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Tears of the guilty</div>
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Held in crystal vials</div>
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Heavens treasure</div>
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Kept</div>
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Precious surrender</div>
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Wrapped in blessed goodness</div>
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Perfect innocence</div>
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For heart breaks prayer</div>
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And sacrifices sweat</div>
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Intercession.</div>
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Here is his weakness</div>
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To bear the yoke of all</div>
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Trampled down</div>
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Afflicted</div>
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How frail he is</div>
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How fragile in the fight</div>
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His face in the earth</div>
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Numbness</div>
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Gracious and merciful</div>
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In fragility and weak</div>
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Conscious of his nature</div>
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With a willing heart</div>
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And promised inclination</div>
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Despised</div>
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Exposed and shamed</div>
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Stripped of personal worth</div>
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Visibly degraded</div>
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Vulnerable</div>
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Dignity lost</div>
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Humbled before hostile eyes</div>
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Voluntarily given</div>
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Revealed</div>
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Preciously loved</div>
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Held in determined care</div>
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Given to the purpose chosen</div>
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Now religiously stripped</div>
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And viciously humbled</div>
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Humiliated</div>
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XI</div>
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Iron rips into flesh</div>
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Crimson streams seep in gushing agony</div>
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Intense pain</div>
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Torn</div>
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Hate driven home</div>
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Elevated for every eye to see</div>
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Sins wounds</div>
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Atonement</div>
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Eternal redemption</div>
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The predestined sacrifice</div>
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Bleeding in wraths rivers</div>
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Crushed for my rebellion</div>
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And for my reconciliation</div>
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Nailed.</div>
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XII</div>
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Slowly in agony</div>
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Pain in every sinew and fibre</div>
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Innocent suffering</div>
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Pierced</div>
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It is finished</div>
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The final breath</div>
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Last gasp</div>
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Release</div>
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The curse is broken</div>
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The law made obsolete</div>
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The price is paid</div>
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Help us to understand what love means</div>
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And the grace provided</div>
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Redemption</div>
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XIII</div>
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Detached from the cross</div>
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Limp, empty, unbroken body</div>
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Moment of salvation</div>
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Accomplished</div>
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His pierced heart</div>
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Speaks of outpoured love</div>
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Victory in death</div>
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Accomplished</div>
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His open side</div>
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The uttermost depth</div>
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Of counting the cost</div>
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For sin is eternally forgiven</div>
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And the war is over</div>
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Accomplished</div>
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Now is the time</div>
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Wrapped in a linen cloth</div>
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Suffering ended</div>
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Silence</div>
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Gave himself for us</div>
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Precious gift of love</div>
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Sealed in the tomb</div>
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Silence</div>
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Surpassing knowledge</div>
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Beyond human reckoning</div>
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Goodness touching mankind</div>
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For love too great to comprehend</div>
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And given beyond compare</div>
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Contemplate</div>
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