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It's time to read this book from beginning to end. I once said, before my son was born, that I would read through the bible once a year. I do read the bible daily, but I skip around and avoid many of the unfamiliar books. I'm in the 15th chapter of E
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So far very eye-opening... interesting to say the least. Why do things have to be so complicated? I should have been a psychologist!! When all is said and done I could have at least been rich.
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We are all spiritual beings searching to obtain a state of perfection that is already present in us but blocked by the fall of man. We live in a fallen world and we deal with a continual battle within. The battle exists between choosing to resist cha
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“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.”
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“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
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“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”
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“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
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“Choices
If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do
If i can't have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want
Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral
When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry”
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If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do
If i can't have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want
Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral
When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry”
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