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Me: \u00a0Are you enjoying cooking?<\/p>\n

Prodigal: \u00a0Yes, but my friend likes to tell me their preference.<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0What do they want?<\/p>\n

Prodigal: \u00a0They said they like their steak so rare that they should just walk the meat through a hot room.<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0That is kinda risky, but people can choose their own preference.<\/p>\n

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Today’s reading comes from Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders<\/p>\n

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Once Saint Francis of Assisi was confronted by a brother who asked him repeatedly, “Why you? \u00a0Why you?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Francis responded, in today’s terms, “Why me what?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Why does everyone want to see you? \u00a0Hear you? \u00a0Obey you? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

You are not handsome, nor learned, nor from a noble family. \u00a0Yet the world seems to want to follow you,” the brother said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then Francis raised his eyes to heaven, knelt in praise to God, and turned to his interrogator:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“You want to know? \u00a0It is because the eyes of the Most High have willed it so. \u00a0He continually watches the good and the wicked, and as His most holy eyes have not found among sinners any smaller man, nor any more insufficient and sinful, therefore He has chosen me to accomplish the marvelous work which God hath undertaken; He chose me because He could find none more worthless, and He wished to confound the nobility and grandeur, the strength, the beauty and the learning of this world.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Praise and Glory to the Host of Heavens as to the one who is worthy to be obeyed!<\/p>\n

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1 John 4:9<\/p>\n

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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

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

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