The Honest Truth On…

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This is the time of year when everyone talks about resolutions, beginnings, and how awful the past year has been. We quickly abandon the celebratory season in which we revel in the story of how mankind was given the greatest gift despite our failings. We toss that aside to mull over how we failed in last year’s resolutions and how we will not this time.

For a few years there has been something I have wanted in my life- I’m going to call it home- and I would ask myself why I didn’t have it. I thought God was withholding this thing from me because I wasn’t focused enough on Him. I promised myself I would be better, more steadfast in my Christianity, that I would be good enough to be given this thing. That I would deserve it.

I’ve don’t think that anymore.

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