What do you hear in quiet?

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"The message--I am someone God so loves--is a message we are likely to hear from God in contemplation...God is so anxious to tell us this that the only time God is pictured in a hurry in Scripture is when the father ran down the trail to the prodigal son, "threw his arms around him and kissed him." --Jan Johnson

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