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In my profession, I work with people making their way through the circumstances of life. They are mostly, in my experience, good people, even honorable people, and very often people I come to respect greatly for the persistent work they have done in the making of their way in life. But, they also, without exception, are hurt people.
Hurts come
- from others,
- from the self,
- from pervasive, systematic evil, and
- from sources we will never be able to name.
The hurts come
- by accident,
- through ignorance,
- in carelessness,
- out of malice,
- as an artifact of growth,
- from profoundly inaccurate mental images of basic things such as the self, the world, God and how He works
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Hardship may come upon us for many reasons.
Job 5:6-8 (New International Version)
For hardship does not spring from the soil,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground.Yet man is born to trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.
We may bring hardship on ourselves through our mistakes or our own sin. Hardship may be brought to us by others or through the impersonal presence of evil in the world. God may use the megaphone of pain to get our attention.
There is one thing all hardship has in common.
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