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Prodigal: I have so much work to do today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: You can be happy while you work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: Maybe that is what God wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do not know when I have had happier times in my soul, than when I have been sitting at work, with nothing before me but a candle and a white cloth, and hearing no sound but that of my own breath, with God in my soul and heaven in my eye….I rejoice in being exactly what I am,–a creature capable of loving God, and who, as long as God lives, must be happy. I get up and look for a while out of the window, and gaze at the moon and stars, the work of an Almighty hand. I think of the grandeur of the universe, and then sit down, and think myself one of the happiest beings in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-A poor Methodist Woman, 18th Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John 14:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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