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There's this overly friendly sense of community built up by very isolated people, and there's this Lutheran humbleness that keeps people from talking about their own feelings and asking about yours. What does that do in this modern age where everyone takes pictures of their food, and they share every thought they've ever had in real time?

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Take care, you who wish
to deal with names
for love. Behind their sweetness
and wrath, nothing endures.
Nothing but wounds and kisses.

Kisses, Kissing, Love Is, Names, Wrath
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even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

Failures, Fall, God, Human Nature, Nature

Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

Cross, Debt, Humanity, Men, People, Repose

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

Encounter, Encounters, Fervent, Grieving, Let, Nothing

Love has seven names,
Which, as you know, are appropriate to her;
Chain, light, live coal, and fire -
. . . dew, living spring, and hell.

Coal, Fire, Know, Light, Live, Spring

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

Care, Damnation, Honor, Omit
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