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  Christine Valters Paintner is a teacher with the extraordinary gift of drawing out of you that which is already present. She writes and teaches with an exceptional sensitivity to all that resides in the human heart. You will be blessed by her artistic and monastic soul as she gives wings to that within you that is ready to fly.

  Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB

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