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Me: Let’s sit a spell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: Yes, I can get some things off my chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: Yes, we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is from the book The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonhoeffer often asked himself about the deeper meaning of his life, which seemed to him so disconnected and confused. A few months before his death, when coming events cast their shadows before, he wrote in prison: “It all depends on whether or not the fragment of our life reveals the plan and material of the whole. There are fragments of our life reveals the plan and material of the whole. There are fragments which are only good to be thrown away, and others which are important for centuries to come because their fulfilment can only be a divine work. They are fragments of necessity. If our life, however remotely, reflects such a fragment….we shall not have to bewail our fragmentary life, but, on the contrary, rejoice in it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purse; no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, or staff: for the labourer is worthy of his food. Matthew 10:9-10<\/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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