The growth that healthy humans seek is not simply a random expansion in every direction driven by disordered human appetites.
spring
A.M.D.G.
This post will make most sense to readers in Aotearoa New Zealand where today, September 1st, is officially the first day of the season of spring.
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Whatever season of the year you are living in today, and whatever season of life's journey, today we enter together a spring-time of growth for relationship with God....
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