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Mark Bisone's avatar

I will hopefully have some more sophisticated thoughts about this soon, in blog post form. For now, I will just call this a masterpiece and a treasure.

Thank you for writing this, Daniel. I think it's something I really needed to read, at exactly the right time. Funny, that.

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L.P. Koch's avatar

Superb piece! And I can so relate to many things you describe here. The depression is real. Some of it is inevitable, but some of it is of our own making I found. There is a cliché that, if really understood in the right spirit, is actually terrifying and true: happiness is a choice. The lesson I'm trying to learn at the moment is to enjoy the process, to enjoy even the trials, the dead ends... As you said, by going in new directions we open ourselves to Grace, even if God can take his time, and even if it seems we come full circle at the end, yet wholly changed...

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