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Seeking Understanding

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                                                                                                                     Seeking Understanding Below is an excerpt from a letter I wrote to my niece.  We had a great conversation about differing beliefs.  More needed to be said but we didn’t have the time.  I hope it can be helpful to others as we seek to engage our culture with the only Truth that can set us free. I recognize more and more that my beliefs are quite radical in a culture that is 'evolving' in a different direction than I am apparently headed.  The difficult part of a conversation like we had is that we start right in the middle of the cultural conversation without understanding how each of us got there.  What usually happens is that the two parties express their opinions, voices are raised, they reach an impasse and the conversation is over without each learning from the other.  I appreciated your willingness to listen to me and Tracy and I hope you felt like yo