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Day 4096 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.

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Lamentations 3:18 NIV What is disappointment? Is it a simple disagreement with the general direction one’s life is going at any given moment? Is it a life in which we’ve given way to doing things that we didn’t want to do thinking along the way that we had? Is it a time spent looking back on all you may have had the hope to do, the chance to be, a collection instead of things that you never did and thus never were? Is it just a word that we’ve invented to give us some way to define a life upended, a journey daunted, a soul itself endlessly haunted by the many hopes that passed us by? Is it a dream that wakes us up at night, a story told to a slumbering soul under a starlit night of that way of life that life could have gone, perhaps should have gone had we not gone and done all we did that left that life in those dreams but for dead? Is it death, the very end of a life in which we always thought that our every hope might we find, or is maybe death the end of disappointment? Reality is ...