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Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation by Richard Rohr, OFM

2004 The Crossroad Publishing Company    Table of Contents Excerpt  

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Dedication by Richard Rohr, OFM

Adamah, the first human name, means "of the earth."

For all the sons of Adam:

For those who are ashamed of being earth,
For those who love being earth too much,
For those who possess none of the earth,
For those who possess too much of it,

For those who need to know they are earth,
And try to flee to heaven out of shame,
Doubting the garden they already have,
Abandoning the garden that they already are,

I dedicate this map of return.

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