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Live More Intensely

we are only briefly not soil

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Christopher Rivas
Jun 30, 2025
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These are not my words, but the final words of Pope Francis before he passed. I was taken and healed by them. I was challenged by them - to live more intensely. We are only briefly not soil, so in my brief time here, may I not squander it. May you be healed by these words as well.

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