Oh wow... you're sixteen today. Sixteen.
Soon, you'll be learning to drive.
There's a scary thought.
Hard to believe it's been sixteen years since Mum and Dad brought you home from the hospital.
Sixteen years since little me came running from the bedroom to give my new baby sister my most precious possession, a teddy bear.
Hard to believe it's been sixteen years since you cried and I begged Mama to feed you because you were crying and I didn't like it.
Hard to believe that it was sixteen years ago that you came into my home, my life and my heart.
Oh, my precious little sister, I watched you Saturday night, as we sat with your friends around the lounge room, feasting on the food of our childhood.
You looked so much like Mum in those black trousers and embroidered vest.
And at the same time, you looked nothing like her.
And you know what? I was so proud.
I was so, so proud of the beautiful young woman that baby girl has grown up to be.
I was so proud that your outer beauty, the beauty that would turn heads wherever you went, is enhanced by the gentleness of spirit that shines in your eyes and is reflected in every movement you make.
I was so proud of the calm serenity with which you hosted the room full of teenagers and the servant-hearted way in which you brought food around, encouraged them to eat and to rest.
And seeing all your closest friends there? Looking around and seeing the young men and women seated around you? Those you had chosen to share your birthday with because they already shared your life?
I was even more proud. And I'm speaking in past tense, but that pride hasn't subsided.
I was proud because I saw the way they cared for each other. The way they cared for you. I saw the way the respected each other and encouraged each other. I saw the way they laughed together and joked together. I saw the way they were willing to dive hand first into new experiences and urged each other to dig deeper into that food they did not know.
I saw it all, and I knew they were godly men and women. Young yet, but still men and women.
And I was proud because they are a testimony to who you are. Who you have grown to be.
And because I can trust them to keep pushing you to be even more the woman God intends you to be.
I am so grateful, my dear, dear sister, that God gave me you to walk beside these past 16 years. I don't know where I'd be without your gentle, sweet, loving, grace - my! how you shine God in all that you are.
You know those cheesy little signs? Those little things that say stuff like "God made us sisters, but our hearts made us friends"? I always think of you when I see them. Cheesy, I know, but it's true.
Just looking back on the past 16 years, I know how much of who I have become today is the result of having you around. You have often shamed me into better behavior, built me up in the things I do, encouraged me in everything, lifted me up when I am down, torn me down when I've gotten too big, given me a reason to grow up and be responsible, taught me how to be silly without being an idiot, pushed me out of my shell. Well, if I listed everything God has used you for in my life, we'd all be here for 16 years!
You've never stopped touching lives.
Ever.
Everyone you've come into contact with has been touched by you in some way.
I know they don't all like you, but you do touch them.
God shines out of you far to clearly for anyone to be left unaffected. And, as Jesus warned, not everyone is happy about it.
But you've helped Heal so many people. And I know you feel inadequate, but you really have. You really do.
You've known, for much, much longer than I, that the secret to Healing is Loving. And the secret to Loving is Resting in God. Drawing from God. Loving God.
And I can only imagine what it is like for those people who meet you for the first time. Who see that warm, dazzling smile of yours greet them as they stand in a room full of strangers. Who see your tall, graceful frame moving towards them. To be getting to know you for the very first time.
I'm sure they'd all be as spellbound as I was that first day, 16 years ago. They certainly act it.
And my sister, my precious little sister, would you accept a little advise from your silly, big sister who still has so much to learn herself? You're doing well, you don't really need what I have to say, but will you take it anyway?
I hope you will. I'd hate to think that I no longer have a part to play in your life.
My sister, keep doing what you're doing.
Keep reading God's Word with that crazy, loving, passionate energy you read. Even when it's hard, don't stop reading it.
Don't stop pursing God's heart and letting Him woo yours.
Don't stop loving God.
Don't stop loving others.
Don't stop reaching. Don't stop giving. Don't stop laughing. Don't stop dancing.
Keep being amazed at the depth and wealth of our God and His world.
Keep being wowed by the view.
Keep lifting that beautiful, beautiful voice of yours up in song, praising the One who gave it to you.
Keep being God's hands and feet.
Keep being His voice whenever you speak.
Stay surrounded by those men and women who were here Saturday night. I know that'll never let you settle for "I'm doing well compared to..." and will always encourage you to remain with your eyes fixed on Jesus.
Change, my sister, but only change in a way that brings you closer to the standard set by Jesus. And here I'll interrupt myself and say that yes, you will fall back. Yes, you will not always improve. And yes, you will be discouraged. You will be pull down. You will be broken.
But that's ok. Because, despite the fact that who you are now is stunning, who God is turning you into is spectacular.
And, like a mosaic, that's going to take some rearranging.
I wish I had something to give you other than these slight words. I wish I could, as I did sixteen years ago, pick up my most prized possession and give it to you.
But I can't. Firstly, because my most prized possession is not something that can simply be given to someone. And secondly, because you already have it.
Have you guessed what it is? You know me so well, of course you have, my most prized possession is my relationship with God.
It's your most prized possession too. Please, don't ever lose it.
And my sister, I have so much more to say. So, so much more. But I don't have the time to say it in. Though, if I did, I wouldn't have the words.
So I'll finish like this: Happy Birthday, habeebti. God bless you always. And I look forward to the rest of your life!
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Monday, 23 September 2013
Sweet Sixteen
Thursday, 12 September 2013
When Life starts getting away from you
I have a confession to make, my dear readers. I have not been doing well, recently. Not been doing well at all.
And it's easy, you know, to smile and say I'm fine. To laugh and pretend part of me isn't slowly dying.
I've been doing that for years. Learning how to perfect that mask of joy in times of exhaustion and sorrow.
But, you know, nothing's perfect and that mask... it hasn't been used in a while and so now it's cracking and my words are hurting the people I care about all because I've been refusing to take that mask off.
I've been refusing to acknowledge just how overwhelmed and bone weary I am. Been refusing to take the time to sit in God's presence and just breath His Grace because I don't want to slow down enough to really think.
And I don't want to think about the fact that I graduate in a week's time. Or that a few days later one of my beloved sisters celebrates sweet 16. Or that one of my friends is hurting and there is nothing I can do. Or that I'm about to say good-bye to people I've come to love as dearly as though they were family.
I'm not ready to say good-bye.
I'm not ready to let go of things.
And time is flowing so fast that it feels like a mere blink of the eye will see my baby sister graduating. Friends marrying. Parents dying.
And I wish I'd taken the more time to tell those stories, to make memories, to laugh, to smile.
I wish I'd spent more time just being and less time trying to run away from everyone and everything.
I wish I'd learnt sooner how to role with the punches and let the hits slide off. I wish I'd learnt sooner that breathing in Grace and breathing out Thanksgiving is the only way to live.
And I wish I could do that constantly.
I wish I knew how to love my friends even when I felt like hiding.
I wish I had slapped and snapped at my sisters less and had baked them more cakes and brownies and cookies just because I could. Just because they are my sisters and they are such a blessing.
And I wish I had cooked dinner more and learnt how to keep my room from being messy.
I wish I had spent more time with my dad and listened more to my baby sister's chatter.
So many things I wish I had done.
And how often does one wish they could go back to their nursery days? Go back to when times were simpler? I wish I could go back. Not just because they were simpler times, but because then I could do it all over. There are so many things I wouldn't do again, and so many things I would do if I could.
And I wish I could see that broken, little girl who made herself as small as possible in her school library, whose closest friends were Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins and the Secret Seven and the Famous Five and the people of Narnia. Whose wish was to find a rabbit hole and go to Wonderland and be loved and admired. Who wanted to slay dragons and be princess in a palace with golden hair and blue eyes. Who dreamt of adventure and shooting arrows from horseback and exploring the grounds of Lothlorien with Legolas as her guide. Who wanted to walk among the stars with Mary Poppins and fly over mountaintops. The girl who dreamt of meeting Prince Charming and wearing beautiful dresses. That little girl whose life was made of stories because there she was safe, there she could not be touched by those who sought to hurt her.
I wish I could see her and hug her and whisper into her ear another story. Her story.
I wish I could tell her that she will face dragons and kill some, but not others. That she will lose everything and gain everything. That whilst her hair may never been gold and her eyes never blue, her brown hair and eyes were still beautiful. And I don't know if they are captivating in way she dreams they would be, soft and gentle, but they have their own charm. I would tell her that she will make friends who would fight for her whatever the cost to themselves. I would tell her that her that she will love and she will lose and she will learn and she will fall and she will run and she will stand and she will kneel and she will cry and she will never give up because her prince fight s with her.
And I would tell her that her prince Charming is already there. That He already walks beside her and calls to her. That over the years He will woo her and save her and catch her like Superman catches Lois Lane. I would tell her that he Prince Charming died for her and lives for her and that He never wants her to be alone. I would tell her that yes, her head knows this but her heart hasn't fully grasped it and I know that for sure because mine still struggles with it. I will tell her that He thinks her Priceless and Beautiful and He will always provide her with the Strength and the Grace to get back to her feet and keep on going when all she wants to do is die, when all she can see is pain. And I would tell her that she would fight that Love and reject that Grace because it's just too big for her, she can't understand it and that that fight will hurt her more than anything else.
And I would tell her to stop running. To stop hiding. To stop fearing. Because she is only going to regret it. I would tell her to that she has been listening to lies and that really, she doesn't need books to live adventure: her whole life is one big adventure.
I would ask her to throw herself into it fearlessly and not care about the laughter that is directed at her, because that is laughter full of malice and it will only end up choked off while she learns to laugh a laugh full of joy and love.
And I wish I could tell her what mistakes to avoid whilst still loving everyone fully and whole-heartedly. I wish I could show her that nothing is more wonderful than a heart soaked in God's love and ask that she start working on it sooner so that this heart could be less ugly.
And I wish I could tell her to never leave her friends, to hold onto them and love them as a sister no matter how much they sunk knives into her just because they were hurting themselves. Just because they don't know love.
I wish I could tell her to give and to give and not let anyone take her apart.
I wish I could tell her to cook more and not be afraid to burn things. To paint more and not be afraid of the fact that it is going to be terribly. To write more, and write solely for the pleasure of God.
But time doesn't allow u-turns. It doesn't allow do-overs and start from the beginnings. Only games do. And life is no game.
But Grace does. Grace lets us take broken lives and build them afresh, because it's not us doing the building, it's God.
Grace lets us strip of our happy masks and let the world see everything underneath. Because through Grace, there is Joy in even the saddest and roughest heart, Through Grace, there is a Laughter that bubbles in the Soul even when the eyes weep endlessly. Through Grace, there is a Peace in the middle of turmoil.
Through Grace, there is also a chance to Heal those careless wounds inflicted by ones words.
And through Grace, the unready still make it through alive.
And it's easy, you know, to smile and say I'm fine. To laugh and pretend part of me isn't slowly dying.
I've been doing that for years. Learning how to perfect that mask of joy in times of exhaustion and sorrow.
But, you know, nothing's perfect and that mask... it hasn't been used in a while and so now it's cracking and my words are hurting the people I care about all because I've been refusing to take that mask off.
I've been refusing to acknowledge just how overwhelmed and bone weary I am. Been refusing to take the time to sit in God's presence and just breath His Grace because I don't want to slow down enough to really think.
And I don't want to think about the fact that I graduate in a week's time. Or that a few days later one of my beloved sisters celebrates sweet 16. Or that one of my friends is hurting and there is nothing I can do. Or that I'm about to say good-bye to people I've come to love as dearly as though they were family.
I'm not ready to say good-bye.
I'm not ready to let go of things.
And time is flowing so fast that it feels like a mere blink of the eye will see my baby sister graduating. Friends marrying. Parents dying.
And I wish I'd taken the more time to tell those stories, to make memories, to laugh, to smile.
I wish I'd spent more time just being and less time trying to run away from everyone and everything.
I wish I'd learnt sooner how to role with the punches and let the hits slide off. I wish I'd learnt sooner that breathing in Grace and breathing out Thanksgiving is the only way to live.
And I wish I could do that constantly.
I wish I knew how to love my friends even when I felt like hiding.
I wish I had slapped and snapped at my sisters less and had baked them more cakes and brownies and cookies just because I could. Just because they are my sisters and they are such a blessing.
And I wish I had cooked dinner more and learnt how to keep my room from being messy.
I wish I had spent more time with my dad and listened more to my baby sister's chatter.
So many things I wish I had done.
And how often does one wish they could go back to their nursery days? Go back to when times were simpler? I wish I could go back. Not just because they were simpler times, but because then I could do it all over. There are so many things I wouldn't do again, and so many things I would do if I could.
And I wish I could see that broken, little girl who made herself as small as possible in her school library, whose closest friends were Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins and the Secret Seven and the Famous Five and the people of Narnia. Whose wish was to find a rabbit hole and go to Wonderland and be loved and admired. Who wanted to slay dragons and be princess in a palace with golden hair and blue eyes. Who dreamt of adventure and shooting arrows from horseback and exploring the grounds of Lothlorien with Legolas as her guide. Who wanted to walk among the stars with Mary Poppins and fly over mountaintops. The girl who dreamt of meeting Prince Charming and wearing beautiful dresses. That little girl whose life was made of stories because there she was safe, there she could not be touched by those who sought to hurt her.
I wish I could see her and hug her and whisper into her ear another story. Her story.
I wish I could tell her that she will face dragons and kill some, but not others. That she will lose everything and gain everything. That whilst her hair may never been gold and her eyes never blue, her brown hair and eyes were still beautiful. And I don't know if they are captivating in way she dreams they would be, soft and gentle, but they have their own charm. I would tell her that she will make friends who would fight for her whatever the cost to themselves. I would tell her that her that she will love and she will lose and she will learn and she will fall and she will run and she will stand and she will kneel and she will cry and she will never give up because her prince fight s with her.
And I would tell her that her prince Charming is already there. That He already walks beside her and calls to her. That over the years He will woo her and save her and catch her like Superman catches Lois Lane. I would tell her that he Prince Charming died for her and lives for her and that He never wants her to be alone. I would tell her that yes, her head knows this but her heart hasn't fully grasped it and I know that for sure because mine still struggles with it. I will tell her that He thinks her Priceless and Beautiful and He will always provide her with the Strength and the Grace to get back to her feet and keep on going when all she wants to do is die, when all she can see is pain. And I would tell her that she would fight that Love and reject that Grace because it's just too big for her, she can't understand it and that that fight will hurt her more than anything else.
And I would tell her to stop running. To stop hiding. To stop fearing. Because she is only going to regret it. I would tell her to that she has been listening to lies and that really, she doesn't need books to live adventure: her whole life is one big adventure.
I would ask her to throw herself into it fearlessly and not care about the laughter that is directed at her, because that is laughter full of malice and it will only end up choked off while she learns to laugh a laugh full of joy and love.
And I wish I could tell her what mistakes to avoid whilst still loving everyone fully and whole-heartedly. I wish I could show her that nothing is more wonderful than a heart soaked in God's love and ask that she start working on it sooner so that this heart could be less ugly.
And I wish I could tell her to never leave her friends, to hold onto them and love them as a sister no matter how much they sunk knives into her just because they were hurting themselves. Just because they don't know love.
I wish I could tell her to give and to give and not let anyone take her apart.
I wish I could tell her to cook more and not be afraid to burn things. To paint more and not be afraid of the fact that it is going to be terribly. To write more, and write solely for the pleasure of God.
But time doesn't allow u-turns. It doesn't allow do-overs and start from the beginnings. Only games do. And life is no game.
But Grace does. Grace lets us take broken lives and build them afresh, because it's not us doing the building, it's God.
Grace lets us strip of our happy masks and let the world see everything underneath. Because through Grace, there is Joy in even the saddest and roughest heart, Through Grace, there is a Laughter that bubbles in the Soul even when the eyes weep endlessly. Through Grace, there is a Peace in the middle of turmoil.
Through Grace, there is also a chance to Heal those careless wounds inflicted by ones words.
And through Grace, the unready still make it through alive.
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Friday, 30 August 2013
The Secret to Being Truly Beautiful (What is Beauty?)
Today in chapel we were presented with a rather confronting topic: the sexualisation of women."Well, little girl fourteen I wish that you could see
That beauty is within your heart
And you were made with such care, your skin, your body and your hair
Are perfect just the way they are
There could never be a more beautiful you
Don't buy the lies, disguises and hoops, they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you" ~ Jonny Diaz
Big topic for a group of teenagers. Big, BIG topic.
It's crazy, some of the things you see out there.
High heeled shoes for the under 12 months olds.
Padded bras for 2 year olds.
I'm not even joking.
What does a 2 year old need a padded bra for?
Images of a ten year old model styled and posed the same way models in their twenties are. By that, I mean: dressed in skimpy underwear and seated suggestively and seductively. And yeah, you read the model's age right: 10 years old.
I'm not even going to go into what older women do. Or how older women are portrayed.
And that was just the tip of the ice berg of what she showed us, which, by her own admission, is nothing compared to what she could have shown us.
Then there was all the statistics about the effects of this that research has found.
1 in 3 women in Australia have been, are being, will be, subject to sexual harassment. If you want a face: I have been sexually harassed. When I was 8 or 9 by someone my own age. It no longer even needs to be an older person doing the sexual harassing. I have been fortunate: I was removed from that situation and have been able to heal.
Or to start healing, because let me tell you something, it has been years since it happened and I am still struggling with the shame and the horror of what happened. And what happened to me is nothing, nothing, compared to what happens to others. If I'm still struggling with it, how much must those who have been raped be struggling with it?
So much so that many of them prefer to take their lives than go on living with the shame. Kristen Anderson was raped, and it was that which really started her on the downward spiral which eventually led to her attempted suicide.
I have heard of another girl who was raped by her parents ever since she was a few month old baby whose personality splintered in order to protect herself. Splintered. Broke. She had multiple personalities.
And then there are the statistics about eating disorders. 1 in 10 girls are bulimic. 1 in 100 girls are anorexic. Why? Because the media is constantly showing them that the standard of beauty requires them to have a body shape that can only be achieved through starving themselves.
My sister and I were once talking about it. She's an aspiring vet and she commented that if we saw an animal that was as thin as women on the magazines, we'd consider them emaciated, send in the rescue teams and bring their owners to court. Why then do these women get held up as a model of beauty?
And, you know what, I'm not exempt from this. This is not me having a go at the rest of the world. I'm included in this.
I'm constantly terrified that I'm getting too fat. Which, if you know me, you'll know is ridiculous.
I am embarrassed by the freckles on my face, the shape of my face. For years I wished I had the golden hair of my sister instead of my ordinary, brown hair.
My biggest problem, though, is my teeth. I am missing my lateral incisors. Usually I wear fake teeth to hide it, but when I'm not wearing them, I hate my smile. I think it's an ugly smile. And don't get me wrong here, I think it is perfectly ok for me to wear those fake teeth, but I know it is not ok for me to hate my smile without them. Yet I have been convinced, at least until recently, that the only way to have a beautiful smile is to have even, straight, shiny white teeth.
And those are just tiny, miniscule things compared to what some people feel they have to do to be beautiful.
And it breaks my heart. And it gets me thinking.
Because we can never really achieve that kind of beauty. That kind of beauty if constantly changing.
Fat women used to be beautiful, now size 6 women are.
White women used to beautiful, now tan women are.
You get my point?
And here is the prayer of my heart, what God has been teaching my heart about this, and what I hope every woman one day comes to understand:
And this doesn't mean that hairstyles and jewellery and fine clothes are wrong. Just that they shouldn't be depended on."You're beauty should not be that of outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewellery and fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." Peter 3: 3 - 4
Rather, that what matters are things that people can not see but are touched by nonetheless. Beauty is a soul that trusts God. That draws Life from God. That passes this Life on to others around them.
Beauty is the woman whose face is worn from loving are friends, her family, her enemies. Beauty is the woman that says "yes, I am flawed, but I have a perfect God." Beauty is living every day breathing, giving love and receiving grace.
Beauty is dwelling on the Face of God. It is sitting in God's presence.
Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, because then, nothing is truly Beautiful. Beauty is in the Eye of the Creator.
Once He has declared us Beautiful, what can possibly change it?
Who can challenge the Verdict of the Almighty Judge?
And so I'm going to lean on Him to teach me true Beauty and I'm going to keep praying that the eyes of my fellow women see Beauty for what it really is too.
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Saturday, 27 July 2013
Just Another Face in the Crowd
I've heard it said that every woman has a lie that they believe. A lie specially crafted by the Devil to stop them from doing God Works.
I guess this one's mine.
A face in a crowd... if that... inconsequential, worthless.
If you walked past me on the street. You wouldn't look twice. Heck, you probably wouldn't even look once.
I'm the one who at 12 was asked what I was studying at university and at 16 was assured I had the maturity of a 39 year old.
I'm the one that friends stop inviting over and don't bother talking to, then don't even care enough to ask me why I don't sit with them any more.
I'm the one that people get excited over seeing again... only to be left sitting alone while they go off and chat for hours on end with another friend.
I'm the one who repeatedly gets forgotten while the rest of the family is known.
I'm the one people run to when they have problems and run from when everything is fine.
I'm just a face in the crowd... sometimes I wonder if I'm anything more than the wall paper.
And it struck me, as I was typing those words, how close the way I often feel is to the way I treat God.
I run to Him with my problems... and slip away when things are good.
I stop inviting Him into my life, or talking to Him... and then forget to wonder He seems so distant.
I get excited over talking to Him... and then get distracted talking to others or thinking of other things.
And, you know what, He incredibly still loves me. He's still willing to pick the pieces up after I ruin everything. He's still willing to hold me and show me He loves me.
And because of that, I'm happy with being a face in the crowd. I'm happy to simply Be and Live and Love. Because He Is. I'm happy to serve without being known.
For the most part...
because sometimes... sometimes... I would really like to be the Belle of the Ball instead...
And when I wish that... when I believe I'm just another face... that's when the Devil begins to win...
because I am the Belle of Someone's Ball... I'm the Belle of His Ball... and that's the highest honour a girl could ever hope for.
To be the Cinderella in the Court of His Majesty... Creator of All Things Seen and Unseen...
But it's hard to truly believe I'm not Cinderella in her rags. It's hard to see that I am clothed in the Robes of Heaven, simply because He chose me.
Even those last few words have been more to reassure myself... because honestly... I can't see much more than another face in the crowd... how can this... that is to say me... be the Belle of anyone's Ball, let alone His?
I guess this one's mine.
A face in a crowd... if that... inconsequential, worthless.
If you walked past me on the street. You wouldn't look twice. Heck, you probably wouldn't even look once.
I'm the one who at 12 was asked what I was studying at university and at 16 was assured I had the maturity of a 39 year old.
I'm the one that friends stop inviting over and don't bother talking to, then don't even care enough to ask me why I don't sit with them any more.
I'm the one that people get excited over seeing again... only to be left sitting alone while they go off and chat for hours on end with another friend.
I'm the one who repeatedly gets forgotten while the rest of the family is known.
I'm the one people run to when they have problems and run from when everything is fine.
I'm just a face in the crowd... sometimes I wonder if I'm anything more than the wall paper.
And it struck me, as I was typing those words, how close the way I often feel is to the way I treat God.
I run to Him with my problems... and slip away when things are good.
I stop inviting Him into my life, or talking to Him... and then forget to wonder He seems so distant.
I get excited over talking to Him... and then get distracted talking to others or thinking of other things.
And, you know what, He incredibly still loves me. He's still willing to pick the pieces up after I ruin everything. He's still willing to hold me and show me He loves me.
And because of that, I'm happy with being a face in the crowd. I'm happy to simply Be and Live and Love. Because He Is. I'm happy to serve without being known.
For the most part...
because sometimes... sometimes... I would really like to be the Belle of the Ball instead...
And when I wish that... when I believe I'm just another face... that's when the Devil begins to win...
because I am the Belle of Someone's Ball... I'm the Belle of His Ball... and that's the highest honour a girl could ever hope for.
To be the Cinderella in the Court of His Majesty... Creator of All Things Seen and Unseen...
But it's hard to truly believe I'm not Cinderella in her rags. It's hard to see that I am clothed in the Robes of Heaven, simply because He chose me.
Even those last few words have been more to reassure myself... because honestly... I can't see much more than another face in the crowd... how can this... that is to say me... be the Belle of anyone's Ball, let alone His?
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