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\"12-30-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 What a nice bridge that is!<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Very nice, but it is not like the Golden Gate Bridge.\u00a0 I have been to the Golden Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 I have not been yet.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Well let me tell you a story about it.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Earl Palmer described the Golden Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n

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I have often though of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco as our city’s boldest structure in that its great south pier rests directly upon the fault zone of the San Andreas Fault.\u00a0 That bridge is an amazing structure of both flexibility and strength.\u00a0 it is built to sway some twenty feet at the center of its one-mile suspension span.\u00a0 The secret to its durability is its flexibility that\u00a0\u00a0 enables the sway, but that is not all.\u00a0 By design, every part of the bridge–its concrete roadway, its steel railings, its cross beams–is inevitably related from one welded joint to the other up through the vast cable system to two great towers and two great land anchor piers.\u00a0 The towers bear most of the weight, and they are deeply embedded into the rock foundation beneath the sea.\u00a0 In other words, the bridge is totally preoccupied with its foundation.\u00a0 This is its secret!\u00a0 Flexibility and foundation.\u00a0 In the Christian life, it is the forgiveness of the gospel that grants up our flexibility; and it is the Lord of the gospel who is our foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance in order to be seen fasting by men.\u00a0 Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.<\/p>\n

Matthew 6:16<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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