Without a clear vision of God-with-us and a sense of the Sprit working around us, we retract and close up. The pain, guilt and loneliness become too much for us. We cannot carry it, so we cover ourselves as best as we can. We busy ourselves with work and shallow pursuits, and we set our imaginations running after anything that will ease the pain. And those who simply do not have the energy, well, they give up. As apathy and fatalism set in many people simply become numb to life and to their neighbour. They cannot see who they are, who God is, and those who live around them. The strangest part
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