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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Are you discouraged?

Many times we become so discouraged by our situation, our circumstance, our trial, or our tribulations, that we forget that we are part of something bigger than this, something bigger than what we are going through, something bigger than us. Without thinking of what will come from this, or what God’s plan is through this, we become focused on the wrong things, and it eats away at the Hope we once knew and had. We focus on our emotions, instead of our character, and we start losing hope. We aren’t defined by what has happened to us or what we went through, but simply by whom we are becoming in Christ through this situation. In a dark world, in a dark place, or in a dark situation, things can easily be hidden in plain sight, and not be seen at all. Things will start creeping in, without being noticed, and quickly take root and grow, suffocating what we once knew and believed. We all have that something, that is our everything, and that we are searching for. For we seek, but

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