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I’m trying, God. I’m trying to fight this fight and run this race the best way I know how.  

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I used to try to be a good person because I did not want to go to Hell, but that is a scare tactic. It does not actually teach you why you should be a good person. Now I am a good person because I know why I need to be.

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Having a relationship with God and communicating with him helps you transcend and look beyond yourself and those around you. It helps you look for guidance from that very source that originally connects us all. 

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What I want to look into is how the religions outlined above play a role in the “Great Game” and what we, as viewers and readers, should get out of them.

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It’s creating time to meet Him wherever you are. 

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I just don’t for a second, in any possible universe, believe there is an all-knowing creature who is going to scoff at me in the afterlife.

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To hope that things will turn around for us is a validation of His promises for us, the evidence of His existence, and the proof of His abundant love for us.

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I’ve never been good at saying things I didn’t mean.

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I don’t have an omnipotent deity to comfort me when my life is merciless and unforgiving. When someone I love dies, I am not comforted in knowing there is an afterlife where we will be reunited.

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Thank You Lord for not always making life fair. For allowing us to experience hardships so we may appreciate everything we worked hard for.