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why do i go to great lengths writing about our fallen state? for certain it is NOT to lower our value as human beings. rather, it is to make us truy appreciate the great love God has for us. understanding our fallenness also enables ourselves to find PEACE with our "failings" and the failings of others and thereupon foster harmony amongst each other.

look around you. look at your life. there is so much turmoil, anguish and disharmony and we can't seem to break free from this state of living. it need not remain that way.

we cannot be the master of our fallenness without first coming to terms with it.

coming to terms with it means realizing that though we may not be able to CHANGE it, we are but called to STRIVE to overcome it.

may we find our peace while we are still in this existence.

and not wait until we are six feet under.