The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ‘what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me? Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It is easy to give into the things that we see around us. It seems like the world does not care about our personal desires and struggles. Often times, we get bombarded by advertisements and messages that try to make us buy things we don’t need and feel like we should be buying. But, we should not let them keep us from doing what we want to do. We all want to live a better life and the only way we can do that is to make good choices and fight for what we believe in.

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters With Life And Jesus

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