So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts stop and feet slip, where we wonder if there is a hidden road that leads somewhere. We believe and we doubt. Believing and doubting share the same inevitability, but they are not equal. They cannot lay the same claim on our allegiance. They do not share the same power. If there are places beyond the cul-de-sac, doubt cannot take us there. John Ortberg
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In this quote, the poet expresses a sort of bittersweet sadness, a genuine emotional range that all of us have felt at some point in our lives. The speaker is not denying the magic of the cul-de-sac, but he is acknowledging that it can also be a kind of trap. He knows that sometimes the cul-de-sac seems like a prison, but he resists the temptation to get out. Instead, he stays in his own little world and tries to make it better.

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