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Me: Watcha doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: Just thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: Maybe this will clear things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is from the book No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your life is hidden with Christ in God. The discovery of ourselves in God, and of God in ourselves, by a charity that also finds all other men in God with ourselves is, therefore, not the discovery of ourselves but of Christ. First of all, it is the realization that I live now not I but Christ liveth in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hebrews 12:3<\/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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