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“Life is a search that is dynamic and random, not processive and progressive. Life is a wandering in the desert and sometimes along flowered hillsides and through gentle forests. Sometimes through dark valleys. There are times when we find ourselves caught up in bizarre events, desperate anger, and eruptive violence. Sometimes we find gentle laughter, peaceful silence, and a deep closeness. // The search does not follow a clear path to a promised future. Life is not always processively and progressively “onward and upward.” Our source of confidence and hope is that God is with us, not that everything will always be better. Our God goes before us as a cloud by day and a fire by night, leading us toward the future that God has both promised and prepared. That path leads us up from slavery, across a sea, and on a wandering pilgrimage through a desert. It is not clearly mapped, paved highway, with “no worries.”