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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. \u00a0 Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. \u00a0 Henry Thoreau,\u00a0Walden<\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00a0wildness is the preservation of the world. \u00a0Henry Thoreau, Journal<\/span><\/p>\n

How would it be? \u00a0If we each really felt free to not conform? \u00a0If we let ourselves understand that the God of the universe is a wild God, a God to be truly in\u00a0awe of? \u00a0What if we let people and things and our understanding of them be the way our crazily creative Creator God made them? \u00a0He made zebras and koalas and hibiscus and redwoods…All praise to Him! \u00a0And may we have the courage to believe and to live it out, minute by minute.\"blog<\/a> \"blog<\/a><\/p>\n

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