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                    There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.  There is,
                    
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                    Worldliness is a hard word to define, mainly because the world sees their way of thinking as a good thing.  Consider what one online dictionary has to say about the matter.  “Worldliness is the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 22, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    J B Priestley wrote a powerful play, ’They Came to a City’ in which he portrayed the disillusionment of those who entered it.  The city’s splendid buildings dedicated to commerce and the arts celebrate human genius and human glory.  They look fine on the glossy pages of books that tourists take
                    
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                    Contributed by Frank Ellis on Apr 15, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE LIGHTS OF HOME
In his memoirs, Chronicles of Wasted Time, Malcolm Muggeridge tells of events that took place in Africa in 1943.  He was forty years old but his experience of those four decades had been of progressive disillusionment.  
After Cambridge he spent three years in India, which
                    
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                    As a result of poor planning, a man needed some same-day dry cleaning before he left on a trip. He remembered one store with a huge sign, "One-Hour Dry Cleaners," on the other side of town, so he drove out of his way to drop off a suit. 
After filling out the tag, he told the clerk,
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 20, 2010
                
                
                
                    On 10th May 2003, through the post I received six letters concerning my claim for Tax Credits - much to my annoyance, since I made my application quite some time before.  Back in 2003 the Tax Credit Office were singled out for a lot of criticism, and every day there seemed to be a story of a
                    
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                    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jan 20, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A pastor told about how he had to rushed his baby daughter to the emergency room to have her stomach pumped.  She was born without the ability to smell.  One day, she was crawling around on the floor, and she came upon a bowl of turpentine, paint thinner.  It looked like milk, and she couldn’t
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 16, 2009
                
                
                
                    Kurt Cobain ended his life about 13 years ago (4/1994); filled with bitterness and anger. He was the founder and lead singer of the group "Nirvana." His violent suicide prompted a lot of questions. "Why?  He had it all a great career, dedicated fans, plenty of money, a beautiful wife and a 19 month
                    
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                    Contributed by Jack Kale on Sep 30, 2017
                
                
                
                    Rain on the Rocks
	We were on the last morning of a five day float down the Buffalo River in Arkansas.  Our family joined another for the second annual Kale-Parker river trip.  Everyone had their own boat and each was packed with supplies ranging from coolers, cook-wear, clothes, fishing gear, and
                    
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