Week 2 Devotional Analysis

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Week Two Devotional
By Christopher Slaughter
This week’s devotional I can relate too this is how Jesus impacted me:
There was a time, in my life long ago, my anger, hatred and bitterness started eating me alive from the inside out. For some time I was rejecting God and it had caught up with me. All the greed and selfishness had started caving in on me. My heart was dying, and there was no one to blame but me. I asked myself this one question? What have I done?
On the outside, the façade (image) wasn’t adding up. I was raised in a single parent home, went to Catholic school. By the time I hit high school, I started to act out, and grown bored with everything that had to do with God and the Catholic Church. That was it for me so I thought.

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