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Gifts from God
John Wight, senior president of seventy

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. -Romans 8:28

My wife and I recently had the opportunity to spend a week with our recently-born twin grandsons (and their mommy and daddy, too). The experience caused me to reflect on a number of things relative to our theme of “Trust What Is Being Born.”

First, it caused me to remember the journey to their birth. Our daughter had been told by medical professionals that she would not be able to have children. This was a great disappointment to her and her husband. But they had adjusted to this knowledge and were moving ahead with life. Then the happy news arrived: she was pregnant. And not with just one baby, but two. We all felt this was an answer to prayer and a wonderful gift from God.

As the pregnancy continued, there were a few complications, so grandma and grandpa had some concerns about “what was being born.” Then the boys entered the world, still with a few complications and concerns.

As I held and fed Cruise and Valentin over that week, I got acquainted with two beautiful little people. Despite the complications and concerns, here they were in my arms being the children they were created to be, full of vim, vigor, and vitality-and curiosity. It became clear that we all could have trusted what was being born, even with the concerns and complications.

And all of that has caused me to think about the journey we are on as a church. Yes, it is a journey of metamorphosis brought about by a number of factors, and it is filled with questions, concerns, and complications. But just like with the twins, I have realized that we can, indeed, trust what is being born. As we seek guidance through discernment, we can trust that God is with us and that if we follow that guidance, what is born will be a gift from God. It will be a gift that is new and exciting and perhaps even unexpected. And it will be full of vim, vigor, and vitality as we seek to fulfill our role in the mission of Jesus Christ which “is what matters most for the journey ahead” (Doctrine and Covenants 164:9f).

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Froher Advent!
Michael Botts of Hannover, Germany

The way of the righteous is level; O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous. In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and your renown are the soul’s desire. My soul yearns for you in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for indeed, all that we have done, you have done for us. -Isaiah 26:7-9,12

In Germany where I live, we say “Froher Advent,” (Happy Advent) at this time of the year, and the Advent season is very prominent here. Lighting the Advent candles, Advent calendars where a door is opened every day from December 1-24, and all the other Advent preparations say, “Christ is coming! Prepare for the birth of Jesus, who will change the world! A time of expectation and joy and happiness!”

The coming of Jesus signals a change. Jesus will change our lives and the way we understand God. Change can bring joy and happiness!

However, we sometimes tend to be more wary and careful when changes are coming. How often do we dig trenches, close the windows, and lock the doors when we hear a change (or metamorphosis) is coming?

Thankfully, the Advent season is not like that! Lights are glowing, music surrounds us, and almost everyone is happy. We are waiting for the birth of Jesus! We are waiting for the world to change in a very positive way!

Maybe we could take some of this Advent joy, some of this change-is-coming happiness with us when we look to the future and metamorphosis in the church. If we look at the future as we look at Advent, we will have a much more positive attitude toward change and becoming a butterfly. God does not call us to dig trenches, lock doors, or hide. Our call is to open our hearts and souls to God’s love.

Maybe we can use this Advent season of 2020 as a time to launch us into the next time of changes. Let us join together in celebrating the new and being open to the love and joy and hope and peace that lies in the future!

So “Froher Advent”! May we trust in what is being born. God with us.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Birthing the Peaceable Kingdom
Michael Wright of Rome, Italy

Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. -1 Peter 2:4-5

Recently on a weekend trip, we headed to higher and cooler temperatures with our dog Domingo into the Apuan Alps in northwestern Tuscany. I had always wanted to visit the city of Carrara, famed for its marble production. The five-hour car ride was a flat drive that ended in a climb up the mountain road: a slow, long, and windy path where we started to gradually see what looked like snowy peaks that eventually revealed themselves as mountains of marble.

We stopped to observe the site of the Roman quarry that has been in production since the first century BCE, the site that produced the marble for Roman monuments such as the Pantheon, the Pyramid of Cestius, and Trajan’s Column. These are the same mountains that produced the marble for the Medieval and Renaissance Cathedrals of Italy, sacred spaces such as the Baptistry of Florence and the Cathedrals of Siena and Pisa. Michelangelo came to Carrara for the first time in 1497 as a young man to choose the marble that would become his Piet\xc3\xa0 sculpture. As I stared at the exposed precious, brilliant, and veiny stone in the mountain, I could not help but think of Michelangelo’s famous quote: “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block before I start my work. It is already there; I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”

With Michelangelo’s quote in mind, I stared at the mountainside searching in sacred pause to see the masterpiece within, already present, but in need of vision to be born. This made me think about Zion, the Kingdom that is already here yet in need of a prophetic people to chisel away superfluous material and work with God to reveal what God has already created and desires to reveal fully. A prophetic people will catch a vision and sense of the kingdom to come and will announce it before others can see it fully. In faith, they work as a community to free the sanctuary that is the Peaceable Kingdom: a living stone, a spiritual house sculpted by God’s servant people.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Stop! Don’t Worry! Trust God!
Mary Jacks of Redmond, OR, USA

When your willingness to live in sacred community as Christ’s new creation exceeds your natural fear of spiritual and relational transformation, you will become who you are called to be. The rise of Zion the beautiful, the peaceful reign of Christ, awaits your wholehearted response to the call to make and steadfastly hold to God’s covenant of peace in Jesus Christ. -Doctrine and Covenants 164:9b

STOP! DON’T WORRY!

I had been sequestered in my home since March and much of the cultural and physical world around me was in turmoil. On June 10 I woke up with red lights flashing “Stop!” Then, in green neon lights, “Don’t Worry!” Being a facilitator in dream groups and getting my certificate in dreams, I was puzzled that I really had no idea what I had been dreaming about before. How could I forget “Stop!  Don’t Worry!“?  I had never experienced anything like this before in a dream. I decided to live with it to see where it would lead since most dreams are for healing and wholeness and we usually dream five to seven times a night.

A month later I woke up with a profound sense of gratitude. Again, I couldn’t recall what I had been dreaming about. Two days later I again woke up with such an overwhelming sense of gratitude. With my spiritual director, I decided to trust what was evolving in my life. What was going on in this darkness of night while I was sleeping? I was reminded of a quote from Joan Chittister: “Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.”

I decided to let go a little more and let God move within me in this darkness. Trusting God has always been difficult for me for I have experienced much in life. Still, I had made inroads on this path of trust. What was birthing in me that was happening in this darkness at night? Was it going deeper in trust?

Long-ago woundedness and shame came up to be healed. I surmised that I couldn’t really be healed without forgiveness. As Henri Nouwen states: “Hiding our pain we also hide our ability to heal…” (“No Hiding.” August 29, 2020). When I read that the True Self cannot be hurt, I went inside and knew I was connected to the Whole, as Rohr states, that is inexhaustible and unhurtable. My “True Me” is indestructible. All my hurts and feelings of being offended come from my separate self (Nouwen, “Trusting in the ‘True You,'” September 2, 2020). My journey of reconciliation has begun. What else is there to be grateful for as I continue this cyclical journey of trust in this time of turmoil as I go into the darkness?

Trust Me, Mary! Is this what is birthing in me at this time of Advent? I will put on my “Trust God!” t-shirt!

Stop! Don’t Worry! Trust God!

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Prepare the Way of the Lord
David Nii, Council of Twelve Apostles

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead the mother sheep.  -Isaiah 40:11

A quote is attributed to Jonathan Swift: “The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.” Swift probably was referencing a financial or tangible definition of fortune; however, his quote points out a common misguided perception. Many people believe success and happiness are solely results of their proper actions. Likewise, misery is the condition of undeserving people because of their actions. These assumptions can blind us to the nature of God.

My life as a youth was easy. Food, shelter, clothing, and safety never were prevailing concerns. Participation in school, sports, social life, and family was effortless. Being the youngest of five siblings, I, admittedly, was spoiled. It was fairly easy to celebrate God when I deceived myself into thinking God was on my side more than on others’. 

Reality, however, has a way of unveiling our misperceptions. Struggling through college because of personal and external decisions was an awakening. Adulthood brought familiar themes of undeserved gifts, dashed hopes, surprising recognitions, unfulfilled expectations, broken relationships, joy-filled serendipity, financial stress, and pain. Loved ones died too soon. Unforeseen events brought significant life changes. What was God about, then? Was God looking over me with judgment, or was a much deeper life lesson being experienced?

God was about being present. The nature of God is not one of granting blessings and issuing punishments. It is one of merciful presence and comfort in all of life. When we pay attention to life around us, we acknowledge it rains on the just and unjust. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people.

Acknowledging God’s presence and concern for us even when we are not deserving is a transforming experience. God’s care and comfort for us, in easy and in struggling situations, is the divine nature. We don’t control grace. Suffering and pain arise with and without merit. When we surrender ourselves to God’s grace, all of life can be received with gratitude because gifts arise with and without merit. The people of God aren’t more deserving; they are ones who recognize God’s companionship in every step of life. This assurance of companionship is divine comfort. As you wait in the darkness of Advent, may you find comfort and assurance in divine companionship.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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We Wait
Bruce Lindgren of Independence, MO, USA

I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long. Happy are those whose help is in the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. -Psalm 146:2, 5-8

I live on the edge of the Great American Desert. (It’s an old nineteenth-century term for the arid western part of the Great Plains.) If I drive west for about an hour and a half, I will enter a landscape completely unlike the American Midwest, where I have lived my entire life.

With a few small exceptions, I will encounter an open, treeless vista all the way to Denver, Colorado; and the drive will take all day. I have friends who consider this drive almost unbearable. I happen to find it peaceful. If I want to visit the Rocky Mountains, it would be much more efficient to fly, but that’s not how I like to do it.

I prefer the slow transition, the long, quiet wait. More often than not, I worry about things too much: about the fate of the world, about my family, about what we’ll have for dinner when evening comes. The long, slow drive lets my worries fade away. For much of the time, it is quiet. I don’t want to have the radio playing music or the latest news all day long. I’m in an unfamiliar landscape, and I enjoy watching it go by. At the end of the day, we’re in the mountains and totally at peace.

Most of the time, we hate to wait. It’s like being in a dry, seemingly lifeless place where nothing is happening. If we’re in a hurry, it’s almost painful. But waiting has its uses. If we break an arm or leg, we wait for it to heal. At any given time, it seems like nothing is happening; but with enough time the body renews itself and we move on restored.

We live in a time of waiting that seems like it may last forever; but this, too, shall pass. Will we arrive at our destination refreshed and ready to begin life in a new place, or will we just keep complaining about the wait?

The good news of Jesus promises new life, and new life is possible for us if we settle into our waiting and allow it to prepare us for the new day. If we must wait, we can embrace the waiting. We can help to ease the way for those who may not be able to complete the journey on their own, those who may not have the means to complete their waiting.

Like the butterfly waiting to emerge, like the bread waiting to rise, we wait and look to be transformed into something new.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Where Do We Find Beauty?
Petra Wagner of Augsburg, Germany

Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. -Luke 2:10-11

Morihiro Harano of Drill, Inc. created a wooden marimba in the midst of Kyushu, Japan’s woodlands as part of an advertisement campaign for the NTT Docomo Touch Wood phone. When a wooden ball was launched at the highest point, the beginning of the marimba, gravity allowed it to play Bach’s Cantata 147, “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”  (The Forest Xylophone is the title of the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2BWrmNhyXU].)

As I listened to the music in the video, I asked myself why the wooden ball produced the melody of Bach’s cantata in a Japanese forest. We might regard it as a culture clash or sign of a globalized world.

I am grateful that Jesus can be experienced in so many ways with people at various places, in diverse situations, and at different times. Jesus has always been there, is here now, and will be with us until the end of the world. This gives me great joy particularly during the Advent season. But it is also a source of strength in times of struggle, difficulties, and challenge. We have been faced with the COVID-19 pandemic for many months with different timelines and progressions in numerous parts of the world. Many of us have been very creative, too, finding ways to celebrate Jesus in online services when regular church gatherings were not possible. There have been many ways to keep in touch thanks to digital media. But when we were able to meet again with our church group in Augsburg on June 14, we felt very blessed by the ties of Christian love, support, empathy, and strength. This is the joy within us in good times and in times of trouble. This is the everlasting joy of Christ among us.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Share Your Story
Chantal M\xc3\xbcller-Mukamurera of Munich, Germany

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. -Isaiah 35:1-2a, 5-6a, 10

This year everything seems to be slowing down to me. But still my life is not enough to do justice to all the people to whom my heart belongs. A scripture in the Book of Mormon says, “It is not necessary that people run faster than they have strength.”

The following quote is my wish not only now in Advent: “A true friend is the one who takes your hand but touches your heart” (Gabriel Jose Garc\xc3\xada M\xc3\xa1rquez). This Colombian writer and literature Nobel Prize winner is a great example to think about in this time of Advent. He was born in 1927. In his early life he was raised by his maternal grandparents. His grandmother told him traditional stories as if they were real. It sounded amazing to him, and they influenced how he would tell stories. Many of his stories were influenced by his hometown and those rich and sometimes fanciful stories told by his grandparents.

His grandfather told him about the events of war. When he was nine years old, his grandfather died and he returned to his parents. He studied law but was not happy. He started his career as a journalist. His childhood dream was to be a writer. His first book, Leaf Storm (La Hojarasca), was published in 1955. One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him in 1982 for his novels and short stories. For him, this award was for all Latin Americans because his country taught him all he wrote about.

So as Gabriel Jose Garc\xc3\xada M\xc3\xa1rquez reminds us: be a true friend and touch the heart of someone. In this special season it is important to focus on things money can’t buy. Share time, tell stories to children, listen to stories of elderly people who have so much experience and wisdom. All those acts will be held in the memory of your friends, and they will tell stories to future generations.

Build a community of love and start to tell your own story; each life matters, each story is important. “Go tell it on the mountains, over the hills and everywhere.” Be a welcoming congregation and help to be a place of healing and reconciliation.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Discovering New Life
Kat Goheen of Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. “But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come.” -Mark 13:31-33

Yesterday I was adopted by a grasshopper. I was walking barefoot in my favourite labyrinth, and this grasshopper jumped right next to my toe as I prepared to turn to an inner loop. I stopped…looked…bent down…touched his back leg; he just looked back up at me. I touched him again, sure that he would leap! He just looked up, and in his look, I read the thought that he felt he had tamed me. We crouched there together on that stone, gazing at one another-equals in holy space.

This unfolding time of global pandemic is characterized by fear of illness and the stranger, and by anger at selfish policies and reckless behaviour. To a one-inch grasshopper, would I not inspire that same fear and anger? Fight or flight?

There is new life growing in us, growing out of the ash of disappointments and losses we have faced. We are discovering more emptiness. We are learning spaciousness. The gravity of our values is shifting toward connection and away from blind striving.

I do not know where my summer friend went. I blinked first and stood, continuing my journey into the heart of the labyrinth alone. Yet not alone at the same time, as my new friend stood holding the space for me.

In this quiet space of Advent waiting, I invite the summer seed of grasshopper courage into my heart. I choose to be still when dark futures rise before my vision. I choose to wait when I am touched by the realities of pandemic living. I allow myself to be adopted by the great work that pulls us together and shines the remembrance of hope in darkness. I welcome new life that may yet grow into a saving energy. The Messiah is being born into our world, and so are we. May it be so.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Birthing New Expressions
Linda Stanbridge of Lexington, MI, USA

It is imperative to understand that when you are truly baptized into Christ you become part of a new creation. By taking on the life and mind of Christ, you increasingly view yourselves and others from a changed perspective. Former ways of defining people by economic status, social class, sex, gender, or ethnicity no longer are primary. Through the gospel of Christ a new community of tolerance, reconciliation, unity in diversity, and love is being born as a visible sign of the coming reign of God. -Doctrine and Covenants 164:5

Advent is an appropriate time to reflect on birthing. Though we’re all living through something we’ve never experienced before, Advent is a familiar reminder that God is eternally creating something new. One of the things we’ve discussed with our kids throughout the pandemic is, where is God in all this? We know that while God isn’t creating all this suffering, God is still creating-always forming something new. Sometimes it’s easier to see than at other times.

Before the pandemic, our new expression of spiritual community met monthly for dinner and twice a month volunteering at a homeless shelter. Once this was no longer possible, it felt like we had no real purpose or direction, and I found myself feeling lost about our calling. We began to worry about each other-those living alone, working from home, or at home with small children struggling to maintain normalcy while experiencing a collective trauma. It became apparent that the pandemic didn’t care that we’d planned for the year, so we decided to have a one-time, online check-in instead of our monthly dinner. This has quickly evolved into meeting online each week. Though I miss the hugs, the food, the baby giggles, and our friends at the homeless shelter, it is difficult to ignore what God has been busy birthing. This new way of connecting has allowed even more people to participate. We have deepened our connections with God and each other.

Though I will be glad to return to in-person meetings, we have no intention of going back to the way things were. That’s no longer enough for me. This new thing God is creating is more inclusive, more accessible, and Spirit-filled. God is always birthing something new and good, even from the depths of our despair and loneliness, from our fear and isolation. Despite the fear that this is changing us and changing the church, if we trust what is being born we will be assured that God is still here creating a future for us and for the church if we can manage the patience and anticipation for this long Advent season.

Prayer Phrase

“Trust what is being born.”

Spiritual Practice

Jesus, the Peaceful One

We have spent this year with a guiding question: Are we moving closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One? As we near the end of this calendar year, we review how this question has been shaping and forming us. In our thoughts, words, and actions, have we been embodying Jesus, the Peaceful One? What might it look like to move closer to Jesus, the Peaceful One as we make space in our lives for Christ incarnate this Advent season?

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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