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  1. Set Your Mind on Heaven

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    Set Your Mind on Heaven — a word by Pastor Bill Young from The Rock Church in Draper, UT. "Thinking about Heaven doesn’t make us less useful on earth. Instead, it gives us strength to keep swimming while we’re here."

    In 1952, Florence Chadwick attempted something almost unimaginable: swimming the 22.8 miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland.

    Florence definitely knew a thing or two about long swims. She had already become the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. But that day, off the California coast, the water was freezing. Also, people in the support boats had to drive sharks away, and a thick fog settled over the ocean.

    For nearly 16 hours, Florence swam.

    Finally, exhausted and discouraged, she told the people in the boat beside her that she couldn’t go any farther. Her mother encouraged her to keep going. The shore was certainly close.

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  2. Pursuing Like Jesus

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    There have been many times in my life where I’ve been tempted to give up on someone.

    I’m sure you’ve been there before, too.

    You’ve watched someone make the same bad decisions over and over. Also, you’ve prayed for them and had hard conversations with them. As well as serving them over and over. And yet… nothing good seems to come from it. 

    They keep jumping back into the same mistakes. Maybe they have started to avoid you. Perhaps they don’t respond anymore. Or they have flat out disappeared.  

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