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Appreciating Abraham. Too many times I've undermined his friendship to me and I neither want him to feel unappreciated nor do I want his to be a friendship that I realize the value of only after I've lost it due to my tendency to take the things and people closest to me for granted.

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In the midst of a “holy” Christian community, we sometimes forget that we are all fallible and fallen, so we pass judgement on those whom we know have. But if you took each and every one of us out of the Christian situation and put us back into the sea of strangers we call “the world”, it’d be easier to remember. So maybe someone around you hasn’t prayed or spent time alone with God in a while, and that’s okay. Maybe someone else hasn’t been in church for the right reasons for a while, and that’s okay too. Maybe the life the person across from you is telling of during an accountability session is fabricated just so he/she’ll come out of it with your impression of him/her intact. Maybe, in other company, the person you’re listening to talk now swears once every three seconds. Maybe, privately, the person you respect is addicted to pornography, masturbates seven times a day and would sleep around. Maybe, silently, someone in your Bible study group has controversial opinions on issues in the Bible. Maybe someone else around you is most things earnest followers of Christ aren’t. But maybe all these people think that they’re wrong, too, and maybe they’re trying. And just maybe, if you looked hard enough, you’d find that one of these people is you.