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Keep Coming Back

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#1 I got to teach at the youth girls' retreat this past weekend. #2 Teaching is always a learning experience. Keep Coming Back We studied from Annie Downs' book Looking for Lovely : The key verse was Romans 5:3-5: 3  Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4  perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. (We had to push fast through the book since it was only a weekend retreat but Casey, Jennifer, and I tag-teamed the teaching and got it done in style. :) Here's what I took away from the study: She talked a lot about persevering through hard times by looking for good moment's of God's blessings in those times, and not giving up, but holding on to hope through it all. Most of us have fairly easy lives...we're fed and