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And the last poem.

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It's called "the
God who loves you".

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"It must be troubling
for the God who

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loves you to ponder how
much happier you'd be today

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had you been able to
glimpse your many futures.

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It must be painful
for Him to watch you

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on Friday evenings driving
home from the office

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content with your
week, three fine houses

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sold to deserving
families, knowing

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as He does exactly
what would have

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happened if you'd gone to your
second choice for college.

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Knowing the roommate
you'd have been

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allotted whose ardent
opinions on painting and music

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would have kindled in
you a lifelong passion,

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a life 30 points
above the life you're

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living on any scale
of satisfaction

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and every point a thorn in the
side of the God who loves you.

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You don't want that.

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A large souled man
like you who tries

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to withhold from your wife
the day's disappointments

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so she can save her
empathy for the children,

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and would you want this
God to compare your wife

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with the woman you were destined
to meet on the other campus?

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It hurts you to think of him
ranking the conversation you'd

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have enjoyed over
there higher in insight

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than the conversation
you're used to.

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And think how this
loving God would

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feel knowing that the man
next in line to your wife

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would have pleased her
more than you ever will,

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even on your best days
when you really try.

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Can you sleep at night,
believing a God like that

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is pacing his cloudy bedroom?

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Harrassed by alternatives,
you're spared by ignorance.

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The difference between what
is and what could have been

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will remain alive for Him
even after you cease existing,

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after you catch a chill running
out in the snow for the morning

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paper.

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Losing 11 years that the
God who loves you will feel

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compelled to imagine
scene by scene,

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unless you come to the rescue
by imagining Him no wise

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than you are.

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No God at all, only a friend,
no closer than the actual friend

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you made at college who you
haven't written in months.

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Sit down tonight and
write him about the life

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you can talk about with
a claim to authority.

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The life you witness,
which for all you know

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is a life you've chosen."

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Thank you.

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Will you please join us in
the lobby for carrot cake?

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