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Me: I don’t know how this will all turn out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: It doesn’t matter, you just have to take responsiblity.<\/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

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For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James 1:5-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.<\/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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