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I'm Kate Boehler, and this is Everything Happens.

I have a prayer that I started praying when I got sick, and I went like this.

God, help me see the world as it is.

I've been studying the prosperity gospel, and after so many years of watching people

believe that the right kind of faith, the right kind of performative joy, and the right kind of

certainty, would give them health and wealth, and everything that makes a life a life.

It had taught me a lot about hope, and reaching for more, and looking for the best in everything.

But it didn't teach me a lot about coping with reality.

It was as if I'd studied and lived in a world of all bright yellows and oranges and greens,

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