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The most important thing that you and I can do in this life

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is to learn how to live.

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Think that one over for just a minute.

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We put so much emphasis on things that really

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do not amount to anything.

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Just consider the most important thing

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that you can do in this life is to learn how to live.

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I can do many important things in my life,

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and yet in the final analysis, the most important thing

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is for me to learn how to live.

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Life on Earth is a very precious possession,

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and it doesn't last very long.

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The other morning, I awakened early

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and was standing in front of the window.

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There'd been a fresh snow.

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Oh, it was beautiful.

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There were a few brown leaves still hanging on the oak trees

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in the backyard.

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Here and there was a little bird who'd forgotten to go south.

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Maybe it thought it just wouldn't happen.

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Maybe it thought it wouldn't snow this year, you know,

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kind of like human beings.

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And I stood there and I thought, if a person lives 45 years,

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then there are 45 winters.

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If a person lives 50 years, then you only

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experience 50 winters in your whole lifetime.

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If you live to be 60 years, do you

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know that only 60 times in your lifetime

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do you see the beauties of a spring,

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the flowers breaking through?

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If you live to be 65, then only 65 times in your lifetime

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do you live through a summer that's not very long.

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I say to you, life on Earth doesn't last very long.

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And while we have it, our great privilege

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is to do the best we can with it.

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God is depending on you.

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God is depending on me to do the best that we can with the life

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that we have and the few short years that we have.

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And the few short years that we have to live it in.

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A strange thing about life is that everybody

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has to live it for himself.

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You simply cannot hand down to other people

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the wisdom of their predecessors.

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Parents live.

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They acquire wisdom.

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And then they try to hand this wisdom down to the children.

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What happens?

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Well, you know what happens.

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The children may take some of it.

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But some of it they neglect or they turn aside.

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And they make the same old mistakes that their parents made.

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And they get burnt and they get hurt just as their parents did.

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And when they get to be parents, their children

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will have the same experience.

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You cannot live the life for your son.

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You cannot live your daughter's life for her.

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You can warn her.

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You can try to help her through your own mistakes

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and personal experiences.

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They won't take it.

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You may try to save your grandchildren from their hurts

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and troubles.

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But everybody must live his own life.

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It seemed that the wisdom of the human race

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runs out with every generation.

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For each person has to acquire it for himself.

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The success or the failure of your life

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depends on how much of it you get.

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Some people never know how to live.

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They go through those 50 winters.

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They go through those 60 summers.

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They never learn no matter how old they get.

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They know as little about it when they finish

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as when they started.

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And this is a sad fact.

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They are the ones who mess up their lives.

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You and I are our own enemies.

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I can turn back the pages of my own life.

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And I'll have to admit that I got myself into every mess

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that I faced in life.

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I really got myself into all the trouble that I got into.

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We like to blame it on everybody else.

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We like to blame it on God.

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We like to blame it on our relatives.

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We like to blame it on somebody else.

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That's the easy way out, you know?

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People just really hate to look themselves directly in the face

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and acknowledge their own failures

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and their own mistakes.

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But you and I are really our own enemies.

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And we have no one else to blame for all our troubles

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but ourselves.

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And it's just like that.

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Remember something.

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The secret of life is not in books.

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It's not in a thought pattern.

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The secret of how to live is in the identification of oneself

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with a person, the one person of all people who really

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knew how to live.

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And that one is Jesus Christ.

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I'm saying something.

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And this is mighty important to you.

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It is important to me.

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If you are a part of humanity, you have to face life.

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You have to live life.

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You're the only one who can live that life.

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No one can live it for you.

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And the secret of learning how to live life successfully

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is found in the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living

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God, who really knew how to live life,

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for he knew human nature.

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That's why when you come to the Word of God,

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when you come to the Bible, do you

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know that you can find in the Bible the answer

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to every problem that you face in life as a human being?

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There is absolutely no problem that any human being

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has to face in life, but what you'll

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find the answer to that problem in the Word of God.

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And the Bible will teach you how to live life

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and live it successfully.

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And the reason there are millions of people

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who are failures today is because they're

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living contrary to God's plan for man's living.

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Now, who is Jesus?

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He may be a misty figure to lots of people.

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They see him in stained glass windows

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where he is given a sort of an ethereal look,

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and he seemed to them so remote and far away

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from human people today.

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Jesus, the Son of God, Jesus, the Savior of mankind,

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but he is more than just a figure in stained glass.

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He is more than just something that's very ethereal

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or perhaps a figment of somebody's imagination.

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How could he be more than that?

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He is.

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He is more than just a religious figure,

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as important as that is.

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Jesus is a personification of that tremendous thing called

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in life force.

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The universal mind out of which we come, part of which we are,

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in which we find life in its fullness.

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And when you get aboard the life force

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and the life force gets into you,

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then you really learn how to live.

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I wish I had the vocabulary.

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I wish I had the ability to live.

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I wish I had the ability in this moment

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to teach you how to live life through a person, the person

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of Jesus Christ, and how you can have this wonderful person

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of Jesus Christ living in and through you,

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guiding, controlling that life of yours.

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It's real.

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I'm not talking about something that can not be attained.

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I'm talking about something that is as real as God himself.

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Now, I could formulate lots of rules on how to live,

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rules which you and I might strive to follow and yet often

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break.

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But there is one rule you must not break,

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and that is to open yourself and let the life force take

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hold of you and that all other rules fall into place.

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You must let God control your life.

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He is that great life force that will take hold of you.

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And when you give yourself completely

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to this great living force, then all of the other rules

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for living will just automatically fall into place.

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And thus you learn how to live.

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And until you do, you just don't live.

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You just exist.

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And there are millions of people today who are alive.

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Their heart is beating.

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They're still walking on two feet.

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They're still beating themselves.

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They still have two eyes, two ears.

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But they are only existing.

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They are not living.

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We might as well face it.

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Most of us are really only half awake, half alive,

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only half living, and doing everything the hard way

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with no vitality to speak of, no enthusiasm, no zest.

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Life is a heavy thing to us, burdensome, disturbing.

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For many people, it's a frustrating thing.

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Now, God never meant that life should be like that,

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never for a moment.

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I've seen people who have been half dead most of their lives.

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But then suddenly something happens to them.

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They see Jesus Christ.

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They accept Him, a living person controlling their lives.

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And then they just begin to live.

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They just begin to come alive.

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Enlightenment is filled with enthusiasm.

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It's filled with joy.

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It's filled with happiness.

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Oh, happiness doesn't consist of a pocketful of money.

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Happiness doesn't consist of having your name in bright lights

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or being an influential person.

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Know that.

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The most unhappy people in the world

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are rich people who have everything that money can buy.

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If you could only lift the lid of their hearts,

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you'd find that they are so unhappy.

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They've had everything.

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They've tried everything.

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They've done everything.

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They have seen everything.

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There are no more worlds to conquer.

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There's nothing more to do.

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There's nothing more to buy.

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Nothing looks good to them.

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And by this time, they have stomach ulcers,

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and they can't even enjoy a good meal.

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You know?

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Oh, sure.

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You would be amazed how many times people have asked me,

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Catherine Kuhlman, what kind of vitamins do you take?

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Well, I'll just tell you.

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The vitamins that I take come from the Father, the Son,

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and the Holy Spirit.

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Oh, every time I awaken, it's a new day.

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I breathe in heaven's wonderful vitamins.

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I awaken thinking I wonder what's going to happen today.

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Oh, I can hardly wait, you know, to get dressed and face

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a new day, because I know something's going to happen.

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I know it.

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I know it.

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I know it.

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And I do not believe that anyone in the whole world

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lives a more exciting life than I do.

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I mean that.

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I mean life is exciting for me.

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I have no bad days.

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Somebody said, now, Catherine Kuhlman, don't go overboard.

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Don't carry this too far.

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You talk about being a part of humanity,

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and you've told us that as sure as we are a part of humanity,

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there'd be troubles and sorrows and heartbreaks.

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Sure, I know.

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I have my share of those things, too.

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Don't think for one minute that I don't have any troubles.

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Oh, you can't be the mother of a nation

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without having troubles.

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You can't deal with as many people as I deal with day

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after day and year after year and not have troubles.

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You think you have troubles with just five or six

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in your family.

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My word, multiply that by the number of people

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that I'm trying to help and trying to reach

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and that I come in contact with.

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Troubles?

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Not only troubles, but you see, I have my heartaches, too.

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I have feelings.

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I have emotions.

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I have sorrows.

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I have disappointments.

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I haven't gotten to heaven yet.

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This mortal has not yet put on immortality.

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I'm still in the flesh.

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And as long as we're still in the flesh,

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we'll have not only troubles, but tribulations.

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There'll be the deep waters.

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Sure, there's many a time the sun doesn't shine.

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The sun doesn't always keep shining,

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but I'll tell you something, I appreciate the sunshine even

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more after those dark days, you know.

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But even when the days are dark and the sun isn't shining,

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I still can live a triumphant day.

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It will still be a good day.

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Good because I know that I'm surrounded by his love.

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Good because I know to whom I belong.

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I'm a child of his care.

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And even though the smog and the fog is thick,

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I can still walk down the street or drive down

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the freeway or the turnpike with a song in my heart.

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Peace of mind and peace of soul because I

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know to whom I belong.

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In him we live and move and have our being.

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Turn it over in your mind.

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Believe it.

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Pull yourself up to it.

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And his glorious word will pull you higher and higher

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above the defeats of mortality.

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Do all the good things.

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Modern science shows us how to do.

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But beyond those, live with the life force.

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Sin, weakness, defeat, sorrow, disappointment

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have no power over the things of the soul.

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They have no power over the things of the spirit.

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For in him we live.

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And move and have your being.