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The time has come for us to have a new understanding of God. We used to think God was in heaven with a white beard, but if we think about it now, we realize that God is in everything. God is not only in the best and the worst events of our life. God is also in the most joyful event of our life, but also in the most painful event of our life. God is not only in the presence and the absence of something, but is also in the power and the powerlessness.
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