The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good li — Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
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The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.

— Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
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