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Anja  Kopp-Roberts's avatar

Beautifully said.

Love is all there is, was, and will be. Allways.

"What would love do here" is something I often ask myself when I feel slipping into the darkness.

How wonderful to have a friend like your breadmaker.

Enjoy your Poppyseed beard.

And know you matter your art matters, and your writing matters. 🙏

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Beth Kephart's avatar

What would love do here is, Anja, the perfect question.

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Deborah Witte's avatar

What a beautiful friend. Thank you for sharing.

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MaryCFM's avatar

Yes beautiful.

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Beth Kephart's avatar

Grateful to you for being here. Thank you.

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Deborah Thompson's avatar

Simply put, I loved this. Thank you for your beautiful word-crafting and for sharing your talents with us.

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Beth Kephart's avatar

I am grateful for you, Deborah. Thank you.

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Jean Ashburn's avatar

And how about the US Conference of Catholic Bishops yesterday?

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Beth Kephart's avatar

absolutely gorgeous, yes.

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Victoria Waddle's avatar

Yes.

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Karen Rile's avatar

Gorgeous cards, and you're 100% right that we have to keep our communities strong!

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Beth Kephart's avatar

Thank you, Karen. You are right there, here, in my community.

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Angie Wright's avatar

I can smell the bread and feel the warmth. Thank you

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Beth Kephart's avatar

Hello, you. Thank you.

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Not The Enemy's avatar

Communion bread, of sorts. Beautiful. And the bishop's words: universal.

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Beth Kephart's avatar

I think so, too — community, communion, universal.

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Janey Thompson's avatar

As January drags its heels and scuffs it's way towards spring, my 'word for the year' is changing its tune. From 'authenticity' (I have finally realised my lifetime of undiagnosed ADHD, and am squaring-up against the nay-sayers), to 'kindness' - it speaks to my heart from these 'pages' everyday, and seems to me the only option left.

Naomi Shihab Nye's poem 'Kindness'...

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Beth Kephart's avatar

It is a most necessary option. We are called on to be our very best. It's easier when we know we aren't alone.

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Char Wilkins's avatar

And in truth, we are never alone.

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Char Wilkins's avatar

The Dalai Lama's in the end there is only kindness.

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Janey Thompson's avatar

'...only kindness that makes sense anymore,

only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day...'

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Beth Kephart's avatar

Char, only. And yet, with all this shock and awe, we have to remind ourselves. Or, I have to.

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Char Wilkins's avatar

Oh my, I have to remind myself and we must keep reminding each other like this.

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Lin Salisbury's avatar

This is so true, Beth. It inspires me to undertake little acts of kindness.

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Beth Kephart's avatar

Lin, I know you are already a paragon of kindness, and deep seeing.

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Sue Ann Gleason's avatar

Pinpricks of light. Thank you. 🧡

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Linda Hoenigsberg's avatar

Bread, offered with love from a friend. The antidote to now (along with Bishop Budde, of course. I'm writing her a thank you card today. May she feel surrounded by love and gratitude.

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Beth Kephart's avatar

We shall surround her. We most absolutely will. I sent a handmade book off to her yesterday. I imagine it somewhere in the bottom or middle of a landslide of cards of thanks. She deserves the biggest landslide ever of thanks. Thank you for writing to her.

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Linda Hoenigsberg's avatar

That's wonderful Beth! I wish we could see her face when she opens it!

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Karen Rand Anderson's avatar

The sweetness of this has touched me just as surely as that almond poppyseed bread — I can taste it; it’s healing. Thank you, Beth.

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Beth Kephart's avatar

Karen, thank you so much. Kathy, my friend, brought me a second loaf just a few days ago. I wish I could share a slice with you.

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Priscilla Slocum's avatar

So true. And thank you.

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Beth Kephart's avatar

Hello you.

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How to Love the World's avatar

"i left you something sweet."

yes, you did. 💙

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