Matthew 4.1-11 The Spirit of God breathes everywhere within you, just as in the beginning, filling light place and dark...green earth and dry.... God's love grows, fullness upon fullness, where you crumble enough to give what is most dear. Your earth. —Joan Sauro, from Whole Earth Meditation Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness. —Matthew 4.1 Just off a highway that runs south of Gainesville, in northern Florida, there is a small community that has one stop sign, a general store, and more cattle than people. I grew up there, a mile from the farm that was started by my great-grandfather and has been in the family for more than a century. That piece of earth is a place of deep memory for me. Its landscape holds not only my own story but also layers of stories of those who have gone before me and whose stories have become part of mine. It is where, on a bright spring day nearly seven years ago, Gary and I were married. And it is where, just five years later, we buried hi...
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