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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: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
Realize
Frantically
Find
Realizing
Mindfulness
Like
Wisdom
Swimming
Asks
Fish
Belief
Fishes
Search
Lord
God
Faith
Ocean
Spiritual

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