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In Love with the Life You Don’t Have

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The Secret to Happiness Is to Want What You Already Have

The issue the internal restlessness and misguided search that leads us to climb from hill to hill, expecting happiness just atop the next one. The only search that remains is to go deeper in communion with him. We ache under the dim memory of a forgotten past. A time when man walked with god, communing with him in perfect fellowship. And though we have exchanged such knowledge and such glory for mere trifles of earth, for life elsewhere, it has not worked. In such conditions, it is not enough to scale back our desires to our circumstances. Jesus himself must be the vine to withering branches, living water to parched places, bread of life to starving souls,. resurrection to

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