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Growing Roots: Advent, Thanksgiving, and the Not Yet Seen
By
Jia Starr Brown
November 6, 2025
We live in a society that rewards finish lines - deliverables, story endings, and checked boxes.
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community
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faith
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history
,
Thanksgiving
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Hope
,
pain
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