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This week, Paul reminds us that true fulfillment is found in God alone,

who invites us to stop running after substitutes and find rest in his abundant grace.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

Maybe you have seen the video clip from a beauty pageant many years ago.

One of the contestants was asked a question, and she attempted to cast a vision for better

education.

Unfortunately, her answer didn't come across as very educated.

That scene went viral, and many other similar videos have since become memes or fodder

for late-night TV and stand-up comedians.

Yet, for all the mockery of these pageants, the contestants and their answers,

there is something deeply and uniquely human about when a beauty queen says,

I want to create world peace and solve world hunger.

How so? Because there is woven inside each of us a desire for something more,

a craving to be part of something

bigger, greater, and more profound than our mundane day-by-day existence. There is an above and more

positioning of human beings in the creation accounts of Genesis 1 and 2. Adam and Eve were not the

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