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I love the song, “Give” by the Christian group Third Day. The words are very simple. “You said all that follow You may find comfort and pain, blessings in hard times. Were I to leave, where else would I go? The words of life and of truth You hold. And all I want is love – I confess to this. I will take it, Lord, all You have to give.” Sometimes love comes as comfort, sometimes as pain. The existence of pain in your life is not proof of God’s rejection of you. No,...

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