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Where is God? Where can I find him? we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

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Ted Dekker
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
Wisdom
Swimming
Asks
Fish
Belief
Fishes
Lord
Search
Faith
God
Spiritual
Ocean
Find
Realize
Frantically
Like
Realizing
Mindfulness

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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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