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Again, this one just struck me.
But there was something about Erica's death that struck me at the core of my very being.
But one really struck me.
And lightning struck.
So two things struck me deeply about this.
Over the last few weeks I have been struck by the number of times that words in our worship have felt a bit inappropriate, a bit dodgy.
The preacher delivered an extra long sermon, so that they were still out of harm's way when the wave struck.
And I was struck by the juxtaposition of these two enormous disciplines that humanity has.
And what struck me was every place that I went to to see these telescopes, the astronomers and cosmologists are in search of a certain kind of silence, whether it's silence from radio pollution or light pollution or whatever.
And I was struck by going to so many, one after the other, with some clarity of what it was that I was longing for.
And it really struck me as the years went by, in a very negative way, when I would go to some stream that I'd loved, and was used to walking through this field that was once filled with fireflies, and now had a strip mall or a bunch of condos on it.
So she's struck with pity.
But it never struck me as it did that moment, because on that image was a woman trying to nurse her baby, and she had no milk to nurse.
And I was just struck that this is out of place.
But it struck me that I'd never heard of cancer of the heart, or cancer of any skeletal muscle for that matter.
And I was really struck by how much it affected me.
Now, moments after this image was shot, Harwood struck Tomlinson with a baton, and he pushed him to ground, and Tomlinson died moments later.
I was always struck with the commitment and compassion of the people who operated and used the site.
The catalyst for this change was the major earthquake that struck Haiti on the 12th of January in 2010.
Which struck me as particularly remarkable during one session with the novel when I realized that I was being swept along on this remarkable, vivid journey in translation.
CA: Bryan, you've struck a massive chord here.
Sure." (Laughter) So that one didn't really run, but I was very struck by this.
And so, what has struck me as I've travelled the last decade for the foundation around the world is that all women want that same thing.
Well during the settlement process, when we received our copy, I struck it.
And what really struck me about them was that they weren't only optimistic, but they kind of struck me as nervous, for lack of a better word.
And what really struck me is that less than 24 months ago, it was the people that were nervous about being watched by their government.
I never struck anyone.
In each of these major disasters — the tsunami in 2004, 250,000 dead, the Kashmiri earthquake in Pakistan, 2005, 85,000 dead, the Haitian earthquake, about 300,000 dead, more recently the awful earthquake-tsunami combination which struck Japan and its nuclear industry — in all of these instances, we see partnerships between international actors, interagency, private-public working with security forces to respond to this kind of natural disaster.
One in particular, a photo of women of all ages, from grandmother to little girl, gathered around a baby, struck a chord, because a similar photo from my family, my grandmother and mother, myself, and newborn daughter, hangs on our wall.
And I was really struck once I'd drawn this picture to realize that the symbol of well-being in many ancient cultures reflects this very same sense of dynamic balance, from the Maori Takarangi to the Taoist Yin Yang, the Buddhist endless knot, the Celtic double spiral.
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