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Prodigal: Well, this is as welcome as a dust storm on a trail drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: Maybe so, but we are part of it and we can do something about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If all men were perfect, what should we then have to suffer of others for God’s sake? But now God hath thus ordered it, that we many learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another; help, instruct, and admonish one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they shew of what sort he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1 Peter 2:9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.<\/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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