Word
Gems
What is a
man but the sum of his thoughts?
Poetry:
- Eugene H.
Peterson's
- Galatians 5.
19-21
- It
is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time:
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- repetitive,
loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage;
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- frenzied
and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness;
cutthroat competition;
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- all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied
wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives;
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- small-minded
and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival;
uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions;
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- ugly
parodies of community.
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- I
could go on.
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