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Matt Garvin’s ongoing wrestle with faith and life

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    Faith and Courage

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    Hanging on I’ve been doing more thinking about the wrestle with faith, and more and more I am seeing a link between faith and courage. The world tells you what normal is, and basically it is doing whatever you can to be in a position of independence, where you can be master of your own destiny. Jesus tells me to let go of the ambition of independence and to trust. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. That means going against all the messages I hear on the television, in the newspaper, from school, from friends, from almost…

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