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So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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And let's call to mine all those we've promised to pray for.

The great paradox of the human condition is that we've been created with a purpose,

a purpose which we cannot achieve,

that by our own efforts, we are doomed to a fundamental frustration of our nature. Why? Because we are creatures, and yet we are made for union with God.

We are finite and we are made for the infinite.

We have cut ourselves off from Him, we've cut ourselves off from God by sin.

We cast ourselves out of heaven and we are too small and weak to climb back to him.

Or to switch the analogy, imagine a river that's infinitely wide or infinitely deep or has an infinitely strong current.

The point is, there's no way for a small finite human being to swim across that river.

But the problem is, we are born on the wrong side of the river. Every part of us wants to get to the other side,

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