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This poem came in late 2005, the day after I decided to devote much more attention to the development of this web site:

The Giving

Is purpose. Through all my years growing toward sky and sun,

I was self-contained, though concerned. And was good, in my branching out. Yet now, in later years, I

find the full joy of my giving,

that love that returns to God and others what

was most precious: life itself. I discovered, that through the years before,

I was but stem, not flower. John Schmidt
Editor