We live and suffer according to the hopes and expectations we hold. I mean this in a general sense. The things we long for drive how we behave. And that longing makes the wait to be experienced as a type of suffering. To not have what is deeply desired is painful. It makes the heart sick. The author of Proverbs noticed this reality: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a…
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