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Me:\u00a0 I like your rooster friend!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 He is making more noise than a cornhusk mattress at the moment.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 I don’t mind it at all.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 If you can share still then go ahead.<\/p>\n

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This is from Overcoming Spiritual Blindness by James Gills, M.D.<\/p>\n

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Christian psychiatrist Paul Tournier distinguishes between the person and the personage.\u00a0 The person is the inner part, and the personage is the outer shell.\u00a0 Many of us go around with manufactured smiles, and manufactured answers to others.\u00a0 Simply agreeing with others, or asking simple, practiced questions are all a function of hypocrisy.\u00a0 Yet one who is inwardly true has a lot more to say and can ask questions of another that demonstrate authentic concern.\u00a0 In these and other ways, they begin to resonate with the inner person of others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me give a word of reassurance to those who fear their own hypocrisy.\u00a0 There is an important distinction between a hypocrite and the faithful servant who simply feels inadequate, but continues to press on into fullness of faith.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Job 5:1-2<\/p>\n

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?\u00a0 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy salyeth the silly one.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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