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This past week, I was the substitute music leader at my church. Before leaving town, the usual leader had asked me to include a new song (for us, at least) about compassion called “The Body of Love.” The song’s bridge says,

The ache in your heart is holy;

The ache in your heart is good.

The ache in your heart is the ache of being one with the body of love.

She could not have picked a more perfe

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (One World Essentials)

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