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Xolodno

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25. I'm involved with my church...but you could call me lackluster.

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 10:45 PM

Jul 2016

One thing I've noticed, the most fervent, gung ho, involved, etc. people are often the ones that crash and burn later (i.e. Alcoholism, drug abuse, abusive household, etc.).

Those like me, who attend every once in awhile, help out with a church event here and there....well, were all still there.

Someone once told me after a person "showed their true colors", they couldn't believe it. I replied, "I can. No one is that devoted unless they have a divine mission or they are hiding something or have a weird notion that the church is going to magically make their problems go "poof!". Given I didn't see any miracles or something unexplained, knew it would be the latter".

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