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Life Without God

*****We were made for God. Are hearts and souls yearn for him. As Augustine said in his famous Confessions, "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."

*****If you do not have God in your life you will fill that hole of longing with anything you can. It may be drugs, alcohol, eating, shopping, or even an unrealistic view of another person. We can see this phenomena in the unhealthy adulation of our new President. People who have empty lives and empty hearts are using a mere mortal to substitute for God. Indeed, some have made President Obama a type of "mini-god"; someone to solve their problems, provide for them, and maybe even love them.

LarryD just posted a wonderful example of this in action.

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Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.
– St. Thomas Aquinas

"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism."

- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959

The upcoming doses are not all that small..................