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The place prepared for you
My husband's work in the foreign service requires that we relocate to a different country every few years. Some time ago, I found myself uprooted from a particularly fulfilling life in a country I had grown to love dearly, and transferred to what seemed a totally alien environment. I felt I had lost all joy and focus in my life. At one point, waiting at the checkout line in what seemed an overwhelmingly depressing and impersonal supermarket, I found myself wondering who I was, and if I would even recognize my own groceries when I got them home.
The thought came that our sojourn in this new place was itself temporary. What was the point in making a life for myself here if I was on an endless cycle of inventing and reinventing myself, always moving away from the things I had begun to cherish and identify with?

April 29, 1996 issue
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Finding permanent employment
E. Ward Thomas
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Whose job are you doing?
Beulah M. Roegge
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How can you discover your true potential?
Mark Swinney
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God has hold of you
Marian Cates
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No room for periods of depression
William G. Stephens
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The place prepared for you
Amanda Holmes Duffy
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A QUESTIONS & ANSWERS EXCHANGE
editorial staff
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A lesson riding on the wind
William E. Moody
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Mind and health
Barbara M. Vining
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I had an experience that showed how prayer can eradicate the...
Caryl W. Krueger
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One of the greatest things I've ever known is that God is everywhere...
Matthew Lawrence with contributions from Dan Lawrence
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The first view of our new baby daughter indicated a severely...
Margaret H. Myers with contributions from Susan R. Myers
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Recently a friend mentioned that a testimony of healing not...
Vincent Armstrong