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Many Of Us Are Returning From A Long Journey During Which We Were Forced To Search For Things That Were Of No Interest To Us. Now We Realize That They Were False. But This Return Cannot Be Made Without Pain, Because We Have Been Away For A Long Time And Feel That We Are Strangers In Out Own Land. It Will Take Some Time To Find The Friends Who Also Left, And The Places Where Our Roots And Treasures Lie. But This Will Happen.

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Many Of Us Are

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Many Of Us Are Returning From A Long Journey During Which We Were Forced To Search For Things That Were Of No Interest To Us. Now We Realize That They Were False. But This Return Cannot Be Made Without Pain, Because We Have Been Away For A Long Time And Feel That We Are Strangers In Out Own Land. It Will Take Some Time To Find The Friends Who Also Left, And The Places Where Our Roots And Treasures Lie. But This Will Happen.

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God Is Here, Right Now, At Our Side. We Can See Him In This Mist, In The Ground We're Walking On, Even In My Shoes. His Angels Keep Watch While We Sleep And Help Us In Our Work. In Order To Find God, You Have Only To Look Around.

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