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Oh, I think I'll end with this
poem called "The Snowstorm."

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This has been a very New
Testament kind of night, guys.

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Thanks for sticking with me.

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I know it's not always
what you expect.

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But there's a great story.

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I love these stories,
as you can tell.

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I love them as archetypical
stories of our own psyches.

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There's the great story
of when after Jesus died

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and after his friends started
seeing Him again, one of them

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said, I don't believe it.

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I won't believe it until I
put my hand in His wounds.

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So there's a line in here that's
quoted from that great story.

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And this is this poem
called "The Snowstorm."

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"I walked down toward
the river, and the deer

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had left tracks deep
as half my arm that

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ended in a perfect hoof.

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And the 'shump, shump'
sound my boots made walking

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made the silence loud.

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And when I turned back
toward the great house,

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I walked beside the
deer tracks again.

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And when I came near the feeder,
little tracks of the birds

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on the surface of the
snow I'd broken through.

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'Put your finger here
and see my hands,

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then bring your hand and
put it into my side.'

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I put my hand down
into the deer track

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and touched the bottom
of an invisible hoof,

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then my finger in the
little mark of the J."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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