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Rust
BREAKING
THE CHAINS
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This
man whose arms are raised in prayer
exalts his Lord above the skies.
The Spirit rules him while he's
here.
His wife controls him otherwise.
This
woman prays with feeling for
the missionaries in Peru,
while managing to quite ignore
the others sitting in the pew,
and
this man, when the ritual's done,
wonders why it is that those
who are the fragrance of the Son
so often just get up his nose.
He
lets all kinds of people in.
Here is your mother, sister, brother.
We eat and drink the stuff of sin.
This is the church. There is no other.
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