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Lord, please help me to change - Judith Couchman

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WHEN THE INSID EIPILLS OU THandling the pain and emotions of <strong>change</strong>f n all our hearts, faith is mixed with doubt, love withbitterness. It is extre<strong>me</strong>ly difficult for us <strong>to</strong> acknowledgethis utterly illogical and contradic<strong>to</strong>ry character of ourfeelings. It is true that the most contrary feelings can live sideby side in our hearts: hope and despair, joy and sorrow, anxietyand trust. We are controlled by feelings, not by logic,though we fondly imagine that we are being guided by ourreason. What happens in fact is that reason supplies theargu<strong>me</strong>nts with ivhich <strong>to</strong> justify our behaviour. We appear <strong>to</strong>be logical, but are thoroughly illogical. That is one more contradiction.18 Paul Tournier ,The Meaning of PersonsM

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