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and now in the name of our loving

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liberating and life-giving God Father

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Son and Holy Spirit a man from the Song

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of Solomon in the Bible set me as a seal

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upon your heart as a seal upon your arm

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the love is as strong as death passion

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fears as the grave

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it's flashes of flashes of fire a raging

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flame many waters cannot quench love

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neither can floods drown it out the late

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dr. Martin Luther King once said in that

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quote we must discover the power of love

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the redemptive power of love and when we

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do that we will make of this old world a

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new world but love love is the only way

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there's power in love don't

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underestimate don't even over

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sentimentalize it there's power power in

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love if you don't believe me think about

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a time when you first fell in love the

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whole world seemed to center around you

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and your beloved well this power power

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in love not just in its romantic forms

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but any form any shape of love there's a

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certain sense in which when you are

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loved and you know it when someone cares

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for you and you know

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when you love and you show it it

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actually feels right there's something

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right about it and there's a reason for

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it

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the reason has to do with the source we

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were made by a power of love and our

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lives were meant and are meant to be

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lived in that love that's why we were we

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are here ultimately the source of love

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is God Himself the source of all of our

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lives there's an old medieval poem that

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that says where true love is found God

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Himself is there the New Testament says

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it this way beloved let us love one

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another because love is of God and those

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who love are born of God and know God

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those who do not love do not know God

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for god is love there's power in love

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there's power in love to help and heal

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when nothing else can there's power in

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love to lift up and liberate nothing

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else will there's power to show us the

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way to live set me as a seal on your

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heart a seal on your heart for love it's

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as strong as death but but love is not

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only about a young couple now the power

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of love is demonstrated by the fact that

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we're all here to young people fell in

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love and we all showed up but but it's

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not just for and about a young couple

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who we rejoice with it's more than that

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Jesus of Nazareth on one occasion was

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asked by a lawyer to sum up the essence

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of the teachings of Moses and and and

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and he went back and reached back into

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the Hebrew Scriptures to Deuteronomy and

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Leviticus and Jesus said you shall love

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the Lord your God with all your heart

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all your soul all your mind and all your

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strength this is the first and Great

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Commandment and the second is like it

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love your neighbor as yourself and then

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in Matthews version he said on these two

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love of God and love of neighbor hang

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all the law all the prophets that Moses

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wrote everything is the holy prophets

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everything everything that God has been

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trying to tell the world love God love

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your neighbors and why you edit love

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yourself know someone once said that

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Jesus began the most revolutionary

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movement in all of human history a

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movement grounded in the unconditional

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love of God for the world and a movement

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mandating people to live that love and

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in so doing to change that of only their

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lives but the very life of the world

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itself I'm talking about some power

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legal power power to change the world if

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you don't believe me well there were

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small slaves in America's antebellum

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South who explained the dynamic power of

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love and why it has the power to

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transform they explained it this way

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they sang a spiritual even in the midst

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of their captivity it's one that says

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there is a balm and giving a healing

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balm something that can make things

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right there is a balm in Gilead to make

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the wounded whole there is a balm in

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Gilead to heal the sick soul and one of

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the things actually explains why they

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said if you cannot preach like Peter and

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you cannot pray like Paul you just tell

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the love of Jesus how he died to save us

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oh oh that's the balm in Gilead this way

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of love is the way of life they got it

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he died to save us all he didn't die for

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anything he could get out of it

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Jesus did not get an honorary Doctorate

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for dying he didn't he wasn't getting

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anything out of it

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he gave up his life he sacrificed his

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life for the good of others for the good

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of the other for the well-being of the

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world for us that's what love is love is

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not selfish and so centered love can be

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sacrificial and in so doing becomes

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redemptive in that way of one selfish

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sacrificial redemptive love changes

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lives and can change this world if you

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don't believe me just just stopping

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thing for imagine think

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and imagine well he can imagine a world

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where love is the way imagine our homes

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and families when love is the way

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imagine neighborhoods and communities

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where love is the way it

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imagine governments and nations where

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love is the way imagine business and

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commerce when love is the way imagine

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this tired old world when love is is the

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way when love is the way unselfish

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sacrificial redemptive when love is the

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way then no child will go to bed hungry

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in this world ever again when love is

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the way we will let justice roll down

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like a mighty stream and righteousness

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like an ever-flowing group and love is

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the way poverty will become history

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when the love is the way the earth will

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be a sanctuary and love is the way we

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will lay down our swords and shields

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down by the riverside to study War no

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more when love is the way there's plenty

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good room got a good room for all of

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God's children love is the way we

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actually treat each other well like

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we're actually family when love is the

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way

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we know that God is the source of us all

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and we are brothers and sisters children

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of God my brothers and sisters that's a

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new heaven a new earth a new world a new

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human family and let me tell you

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something old Solomon was right in the

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Old Testament that's fire

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they are decied on and with this I will

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sit down we got to get you all married

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French Jesuit ard showdown was arguably

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one of the great minds great spirits of

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the 20th century Jesuit Roman Catholic

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priest scientists a scholar a mystic in

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some of his writings he said from his

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scientific background as well as his

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theological one some of his writings has

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said as others have that the discovery

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or invention or harnessing of fire was

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one of the great one of the great

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scientific and technological discoveries

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in all of human history fire to a great

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extent made human civilization possible

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fire made it possible to cook food and

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and to provide sanitary ways of eating

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which reduced the spread of disease in

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its time fire made it possible to to

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heat warm environment and thereby made

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human migration around the world a

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possibility even into colder climates

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fire made it possible there is no there

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was no Bronze Age without fire no Iron

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Age without fire no Industrial

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Revolution without fire the advances of

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science and technology are greatly

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dependent on the human ability and

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capacity to take fire and use it for

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human good anybody get here in a car

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today an automobile knock your heads if

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you did I'm guessing I know there were

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some carriages but those of us who came

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on cars fire the controlled harnessed

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fire made that possible I know that the

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Bible says I believe Jesus walked on the

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water but I have to tell you I didn't

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walk across the Atlantic Ocean to get

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here

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controlled fire in that plane got me

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here fire makes it possible for us to

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text and tweet an email and Instagram

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and and Facebook and socially be

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dysfunctional with each other fire all

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of that possible and and de Chardin said

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fire was one of the greatest discoveries

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in all of human history and he then went

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on to say that if humanity ever

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harnesses the energy of fire again if

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humanity ever captures the energy of

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love it will be the second time in

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history that we have discovered fire

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dr. King was right we must discover love

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the redemptive power of love and when we

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do that we will make of this old world a

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new world my brother my sister

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God love you god bless you and may God

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hold us all in those Almighty hands of

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love