Bellies

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Can it be true (I just can't believe it!) that on earth there are no men - only bellies?

(from The Way by Josemarie Escriva)

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This made me pause and halt in my reading. I know exactly what the future saint is saying. Yesterday I gorged myself on pizza, pasta, dairy and sweets, and willfully allowed countless opportunities, some which will never to come this way again, to slip through my fingertips. But the thing is, my fingers, in their incessant hunt to satisfy my silly and fruitless earthly desires, never even knew the opportunities were there ...