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The Idea of God Isn't God
Watch video version on my Youtube Channel. There's a difference between believing in an idea of God and actually experiencing God. Most of us live in the first one without knowing it. Take every human being's experience, every generation that's ever existed, add it all together, and it still wouldn't come close to touching the vastness of what God is. Every concept, every religion, every idea we've built around God is a finger pointing at something none of it can fully hold.

Zachary Leal
Aug 71 min read


Pain vs. Suffering: Why Forgiveness Is a Choice, Not a Feeling
Watch the video version at my Youtube Channel. There's a line from a Rebelution song that's been sitting with me: don't you know it's you why you're suffering. Said out of context, that sounds harsh. Said with the right context, it might be the most freeing thing you hear this week. Here's the distinction I want to draw out: pain and suffering are not the same thing. Pain is what happens to you. It's inevitable. It's the skinned knee when you're seven and it's the slow realiz

Zachary Leal
Jul 102 min read
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