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Perhaps even more than in the past, our lives demand everything we can bring to them. But in every moment, every day, every week we spend lamenting our lost life, we also have an opportunity to shift all our interest and creativity to this new life. There's a tendency to deny these new circumstances and wait for our old life to return. 'If we have lost the relative ease and mobility of the past, it may be hard to make a real commitment to this new life. This week I’ve been sitting with these words:

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