Dear Loving EChurch Family,

I do appologize for sending these messages in this format.

I don't know why this has all the "20" in it and the "93" lol. I saved it
as ASCII Text. lol.

Lovings!
Pat Ferguson

At 09:02 AM 7/27/04, you wrote:
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>THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN=AE LIFE Daily Devotional
>July 27, 2004
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>Complicate Your Life
>by John Fischer
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>Relationships are complicated. Have you ever thought about how much easier=
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>life would be without any people in it? How about it? A sure way to an=20
>uncomplicated life would be to remove everyone but you. Right?
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>When you stop and think about it there really are only two options:=20
>isolation or complication. You can hole up inside your own shell or come=20
>out and complicate your neat, orderly life with unpredictable=20
>relationships. Unfortunately, love has no other options.
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>At the end of the romantic comedy, Six Days, Seven Nights, Harrison Ford=20
>decides to complicate his simple, controlled life with a love relationship,=
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>and we all think he has made a good choice, because we too have fallen for=
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>Anne Heche=92s bright blue eyes. =93Go for it,=94 we say to him at the=20
>predictable feel-good ending, =93complicate the [heck] out of your=20
>life=94=97which is precisely what he says with a slight adjustment for the=
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>that this is a devotional.
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>Ever imagine how complicated God=92s life got when He created us? =93Now the=
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>Lord observed the extent of the people=92s wickedness, and He saw that all=
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>their thoughts were consistently and totally evil. So the Lord was sorry He=
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>had ever made them. It broke His heart=94 (Genesis 6:5-6). Hey, even God has=
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>His days.
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>Yes, God=92s life got very complicated when He created us, and that=20
>complication culminated in a devastating crucifixion. It took that much for=
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>Him to straighten everything out. Yet that didn=92t stop Him. So why should=
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>we stop at nothing less in order to love each other? Love is worth it.
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>Love is impossible in isolation. Isolation is a vacuum and love needs a=20
>relationship to breathe. Any relationship brings complications; so it=92s=20
>your choice. Hey, someone made the right choice or you wouldn=92t be here to=
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>make your own now.
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>Lest you think that others are the source of your complications, think=20
>again. Relationships merely show us who we really are. They are like=20
>mirrors into our own dysfunction, and that is actually part of our=20
>salvation, because we probably wouldn=92t see it otherwise.
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>So think about all the complicated relationships in your life today, and=20
>thank God for what they show you about yourself. Ask God to heal you and=20
>then put your arms around those complications, because the overcoming power=
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>of God=92s love is in them, waiting for you, and you wouldn=92t want=
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>less.
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>PDL
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>John Fischer is an author, speaker, and song writer based in Southern=20
>California. His latest book, Love Him in the Morning has been released by=20
>Revell Publishing.
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