{"id":620,"date":"2012-04-04T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T04:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2016-11-02T23:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T04:24:43","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What if?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You fall down?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The world is falling down around you?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Those you love have abandoned you?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your life is plagued by physical pain?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your child isn\u2019t perfect?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You discover you are pregnant and you don\u2019t know who the father is?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You\u2019ve been told you have AIDS, or cancer, or early onset Alzheimer\u2019s, or Multiple Sclerosis?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your brother was sent to war and didn\u2019t return?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your parents both have Alzheimer\u2019s and you are their only child?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You lost your job due to budget cuts after working at the same position for 27 years?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your fun friends find other fun friends to hang out with- without you?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can\u2019t bring yourself to walk out of the door of your house-ever?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You just finished the fourth half-gallon of ice cream, the fifth box of cookies, and a third jar of hot fudge sauce topped off by a bag of marshmallows?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your best friend is no longer your friend?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your husband drinks himself to sleep every night?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your sister lives her life on the edge, you never know when she will show up or what shape she will be in?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You found cocaine in your 14-year-old\u2019s bedroom?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You have maxed out all of your credit cards, you are behind on the mortgage, and the electricity has been turned off because you can\u2019t stop spending?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can\u2019t move from room to room in your house because there are boxes everywhere, up to the ceiling because you can\u2019t throw anything out?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your mom sleeps with every man she meets?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your father abused you, your older sister, your younger sister and your baby brother for years?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your wife left on a business trip with her boss and didn\u2019t return?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You have never heard the words \u201cI love you\u201d said to you?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The list can and does go on. We pass people on the street that carry crippling burdens around with them and we never notice. Meanwhile, we are buckling under the weight of our own burdens. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>LOVES \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All of us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cCome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.\u00a0 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u00a0 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d Matthew 11:28-30<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no human mind has conceived\u201d- the things God has prepared for those who love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9b<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. Deuteronomy 7:9<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May your unfailing love rest upon us oh, Lord, even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 33:22<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your love, oh Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Psalm 36:5<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings. Psalm 36:7<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Do not withhold your mercy from me, oh Lord; may your love and your truth always protect me. Psalm 40:11<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When I said, \u201cMy foot is slipping\u201d, your love, oh Lord, supported me. Psalm94:18<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u201d John 13:34<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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