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Wonder

Kerena Joseline

After Tuvia Rubiner

If after everything that has happened you can still hold your heavy heart with all the strength you have left, and brave one day at a time,

if you can still hear those orange- breasted rufous treepies singing on the electric lines at dawn,

and the sparrows with their yellow beaks...

don't be surprised that happiness is watching the answer to your prayers sleeping beautifully beside you,

is feeling the warmth of sunrays entering your living room like hands reaching out to comfort you,

is gawking at the sky turning into a riot of gold,

is drinking in with delight all the tiny details of this incredible world bursting with a million miracles every second.

Take heart, you do not know when and where happiness will flood over you.

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