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Well Girl New Inspirational

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Living Podcast. Today's Reading

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was edited and adapted

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from. The. Joy that no

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man take it from you By

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Lillian whining, abolished and ninety you

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know, Five. Isn't

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not true that there is an

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inner radiance. A joy that

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the world can either a game noi take

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away. Which. Is an

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inalienable possession of the spirit.

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Entirely. Independent of time.

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Chance. Or change. Can.

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At least joy be achieved by the

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so. So. Then neither

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death nor privation. Nor.

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Last nord disappointment. Nor

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trial and any of it's

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many forms. Shell Dame is

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radiance or diminish. it's energy.

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For. If it can be achieved, It.

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Would mean the most important

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discovery of our lives. Joy.

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Is the very Elixir of energy

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an inspiration? The most

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invincible force. It. Is

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low power which is able to

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conquer and prevail. In. Our

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ability to achieve this joy. Is.

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Constantly proclaimed by God,

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Jesus says ass can

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receive so that you're

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enjoying maybe full spiritual

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truth is not a

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ceremonial ritual for occasional

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attention. It is

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the very breath of the

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soul. Not something to be

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held as a religious luxury,

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but as the most absolute

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necessity of life. Love.

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Which is lucy bring the agree

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of spiritual. The total truth is

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the unerring law of guidance. Love

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feels no burden, thinks

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nothing of trouble, pleads

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no excuse of impossibility,

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for it thinks all things possible.

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It is therefore able to undertake

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all things, and it

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completes many a thing. Love

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is active, sincere, affectionate,

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pleasant, and amiable.

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It is also courageous, patient,

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faithful, and never

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seeking itself. Truly

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love is the very motor of living.

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It can achieve the impossible. It

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can endure the unendurable with

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serenity, and with faith

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in the better conditions to come. Sorrow

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is a condition of time, but

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joy is the condition of eternity.

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Love sees the temporary experience

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under eternal conditions, and

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thus lifts up the transient to

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the permanent, bringing it

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with an immortal radiance. This

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indeed may be accepted as an

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axiom, one that is

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as absolute in its eternal truth

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as a mathematical proposition.

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The immortal radiance of joy is to

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the spirit, as is the

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sun to the physical world. The

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sun always shines. Clouds

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may intervene, but beyond the

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clouds the divine glory lives

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undimmed. Although

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there are days when we do not see

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this radiance of sunshine, it is

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always a glow, and

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only temporarily hit him from our

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eyes. For

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we can accept as a fact, as

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fixed as any physical fact of

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the universe, that immortal

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joy always and unchangingly infuses

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life, And that. The

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pain. Desolation, Sorrow.

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And own happiness are

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merely transitory clouds that

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intervene between oneself. And.

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God's Love. Which.

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Is quote. The. Joy that no

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one can take it from you. And.

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Yet. Lizzie. Joy is

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always been obscured by temporary

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clouds of sorrow of annoyance

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of suffering in many forms.

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Is. This experience one that can never

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be a skate. Well.

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It is true that many troubles

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are inevitable, may or a component

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part of life. Death.

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Is very universal human

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experience. Illnesses.

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Largely so, In. Slade

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or a serious degree. Misfortunes.

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Are. Practically universal.

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In some form or another. Where.

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It can be no woman or man who

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was so great. Or. So do.

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Or so distinguished. Are

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so rich. Or so

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fortunately placed in this world. Who

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is not liable to almost any

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kind of misfortune? Or

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present circumstances are the most

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transitory of phases. Of

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flowing conditions of life as

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Emerson so well said. Friendships.

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Even. Those held the most sacred

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and pressures are liable to change.

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Character. That seems a

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permanent position. Is yet

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always at the mercy of been

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grossly misunderstood. Misinterpreted.

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And the subject to the momentary

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lapse. A. Person should be

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judged from the standpoint of their

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best deeds. And. Best

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moments. But. Instead. They

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are usually judge from the standpoint of

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their least where the deed or thought.

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The. Test of all true greatness of so.

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Is. The power of sustained. sacrifice,

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and the very condition that makes

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sacrifice possible is the

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spiritual perception of our ideals.

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Life is a series of tests to be

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met, as well as a

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series of choices to be made. The

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perpetual problem recurs continually

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under new conditions, and

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these flowing conditions of life may

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be very dark, but the

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individual can still walk in radiance,

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in the light of God. It

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is a lack of spiritual perspective

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to talk of dead dreams, faded

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hopes, and all that

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sort of nonsense. It

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is simply a silly sentimentality.

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True sentiment is something lofty

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and fine. Without it,

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there could be no human helpfulness,

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but sentimentality has

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no place in a life that is earnest,

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sincere, and noble, for

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it weakens and debilitates. It

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should be relegated to the dead

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ages, from whence it came. It

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has no part or place in the

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joyful present. The habit

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of perpetually dwelling on the past

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is a pernicious one. All

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that is worthy in the past is

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distilled into the elixir of the

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present, and becomes the

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gold that remains, while

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the dross and crudities are cast

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away. The endeavors

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of life are not alike

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the sewing of the traditional mustard

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seed. Some of them

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fall on stony ground, and

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come to fruition. Let

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those endeavors and dreams that fall

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on the stony ground be

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ignored. They were

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merely experimental, tentative.

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Being cancelled, they have

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no resurrection. This

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world is meant for the living, not

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for the dead. Every

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effort that has in it the

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seed of spiritual vitality comes

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to fruition, sometime

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and somewhere. It

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is only a question of time and

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trust. Let us believe

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and go forward. There

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is always power in today to

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recreate the beautiful yesterday.

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There comes periods in life when

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disaster seems to have taken possession

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of our efforts. In

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every imaginable loss, sorrow

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and misfortune appears. The

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natural inclination is toward discouragement

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and despair. To recover

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happier conditions, don't

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blame others or stew over

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injustices and wrongs. That

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is the way in which madness lies.

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Believe in better days and go forward.

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Forget the beautiful yesterday and dream

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of a radiant tomorrow. For

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in that radiance lies the kingdom of

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God, which is divine

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power. And in this power

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you shall recreate your vanished paradise.

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Regain all prosperity, all

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gladness, all beauty of

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achievement. Now, you

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may think that a loss of

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financial resources is a serious trouble.

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And it is. It would be

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unrealistic to pretend it is not. Wealth

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is a vast power. And

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power is the possibility for marvelous good.

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If it is used to produce gigantic

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evils, it is not

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because there is any inherent corruption in

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power itself, but in the person

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who wields it. Therefore,

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a great financial loss may

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also be considered a problem of

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the spiritual life. Material

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resources are one form of

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the expression of spiritual energies.

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All spiritual energy does not apply.

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course, build up colossal

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fortunes, and colossal

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fortunes are sometimes, though

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not invariably, the result

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of wrongs and oppression. But

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as a rule, the normal intellect

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and energy of spirit enable

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one to live and assist others in

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living worthily. And the sudden

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loss of this power is a

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very real trouble, but not

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so real that it need lead

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us into any despondency or despair.

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As Goethe says, goods

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gone, there is wealth in

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store. Go and earn more.

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Remember that there are valuable lessons

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in failure. One of

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these is to learn how not to fail again.

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Another is to learn not to be

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discouraged. Let us recall

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the inspiring words of Walt Whitman.

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Be not discouraged. Keep

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on their divine things

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well hidden. I swear

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to you, their divine things more beautiful

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than words can tell. Beyond

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all else, however, is the lesson

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of faith in God, the

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soul that sees the will of God

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in the smallest things, and

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in the most desolating and fatal events,

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receives all with equal joy,

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exultation, and

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respect. That which

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others fear and fly from with horror,

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she opens all her doors to

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receive with honor. If we

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knew how to greet each moment, good

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and bad, as the manifestation

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of the divine will, we

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would find in it all the heart

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could desire. The divine

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will is a bottomless well of

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which the present moment is the

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entrance. Plunge fearlessly

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therein, and you will

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find it more boundless than your desires.

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To give oneself an entire devotion

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to the divine will is

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to receive strength alone. in

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the most perfect and beautiful guidance

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along the right path, because

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the acceptance of the Divine Will is

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not a mere passive condition. It

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is not to sit with folded hands,

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apathetic heart and

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benign faculties. It

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is to arise in newness of life. It

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is to acquire a noble and

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resistless energy that is

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prepared to conquer and prevail. It

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is to realize the possession

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of a hitherto unknown intensity

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of power. The

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finer elixir of any achievement is

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thus not the mere satisfaction with

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that which is achieved, but

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the power to achieve still greater

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results, and its highest effect

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is to make an

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even greater struggle necessary. That

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is to say, all experience

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is a crucible, out

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