For some of us, our obligations to others will require us to tolerate loneliness, to accept abstinence for a season or a lifetime, to live where we don’t want to live, to work a job we don’t enjoy, to give up comforts we love, to let go of honorable dreams and passions, to physically suffer, to forgo thanks and recognition, to lend money without expecting repayment, to allow our rights to be infringed upon. In one way or another, we will be called to the renunciation of our desires in affirmation of God’s grace and providence, but never in resignation. Renunciation in affirmation, not
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