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Navigating the Rapids

Navigating the Rapids, Part 3 (Scholar’s Compass)

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Quotation

… He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world… For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith… – II Peter 1:4-5

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Navigating the Rapids: When it Doesn’t Go as You Expect, Part 1 (Scholar’s Compass)

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…but tragedy, even in everyday life, can be a form of valuable restructuring. It is painful and in some ways destructive, but it also puts things in a new order. – Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul, p. 101 (Harper Perennial, 1992)

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