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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.