| My employment history includes a stint in
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| | minds, in an offhand way, they still
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| retail management that extended for
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| | surprise and disturb us to the core, even
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| several years. While working as an
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| | when we are not directly affected.
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| assistant manager for a furniture store,
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| | Perhaps our unconscious sensibilities
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| my shifts began either in the morning or
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| | recognize all too well that we could be
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| at midday, and varied week to week.
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| | next in line for a tornado, earthquake,
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| Physically maintaining the sales floor
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| | hurricane or tsunami. Despite our best
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| was an ongoing project. Dusting,
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| | efforts, controlling the weather, our
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| reorganizing merchandise displays and
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| | environment and the earth itself, we do
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| restocking shelves, as well as chasing
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| | not possess those gifts or skills.
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| down rogue items that customers had taken
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| | Human illness and disability also come to
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| from one location and left in another,
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| | mind. For years we've talked about the
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| could easily fill a full eight hour
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| | amazing advances of medical technology.
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| shift. Sometimes a "relocation project"
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| | Being old enough to remember a time
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| could remain undetected for hours if
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| | before some of these advances, I am
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| customer traffic increased, only to
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| | continually amazed by the rich,
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| surface at the worst possible time, the
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| | meaningful lives people can live because
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| exact moment the store manager walked in
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| | of organ transplants, chronic disease
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| for his afternoon shift at two o'clock.
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| | management and nutritional counseling.
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| His patrol began at the right of the
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| | But our technology also has limits. We
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| store. Then, as if from no where, a
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| | cannot cure all illness or disease, and
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| voice would arise, asking the simple
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| | some disabilities, emotional, mental and
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| question, "What's that doing there?"
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| | physical, still baffle the best
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| "That" could be a chair or lamp
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| | physicians in the world.
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| rearranged by a customer, a display
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| | Less concrete, but equally mysterious in
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| abandoned before its completion, or a
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| | their lack of reason, are moral issues
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| pile of packing foam that had been
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| | that confront us each day. People
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| deserted to fend for itself in the middle
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| | continue to suffer in extreme poverty
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| of the floor after a new item had been
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| | around the world, violence in our
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| placed out for sale. It didn't matter
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| | communities is reported as standard
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| what the disruption was or why it was
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| | issue on our nightly news broadcasts here
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| still there. No explanation, reasonable
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| | in the United States and Iraq still
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| or ludicrous, was acceptable because the
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| | struggles to solidify itself into a
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| mess should already have been cleaned up,
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| | country that can begin to set aside past
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| the furniture should have been put back
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| | anguish and move forward to a meaningful
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| in place and the display should have been
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| | future.
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| completed. It took me two years to
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| | And, in each of our lives, every day, we
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| realize that there was no right answer
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| | bump up against problems, issues, fears,
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| for, "What's that doing there?"
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| | and false hopes, and wonder, "What's that
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| My former supervisor, still a close
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| | doing there?" For these times in our
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| friend, and I now laugh about those
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| | world, our nation, and our own lives,
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| weekly scenarios. But those moments
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| | there is no right answer for what these
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| reveal a simple truth about life that
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| | things are doing there, why they are
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| cannot be ignored: the world presents
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| | still not fixed, and may never be fixed.
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| many moments that do not fit or are not
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| | But we are assured in the very first
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| where they belong, and there frequently
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| | verses of the Gospel of John that God has
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| are no right answers for why they are
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| | been with us since the beginning, and
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| not, or cannot be, fixed.
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| | always will be because, "The light shines
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| Natural disasters come to mid. Natural,
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| | in the darkness, and the darkness has not
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| even somewhat expected at the back of our
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| | overcome it (John1: 5).
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