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I'm sitting beside the Sabbath
Trail, which is this really cool trail,

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that starts and ends at the Washington
Seventh Day Adventist Church,

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in Washington, New Hampshire.

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Which is the first
Seventh Day Adventist church,

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the oldest Seventh Day Adventist church.

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And this is a trail that
winds through the woods

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for about a mile, it's got
twenty-two separate stops on it,

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each of which has a part in tracing the
Sabbath through the Bible, through the ages.

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If you ever get a chance to
visit, I highly recommend it.

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For our purposes, this trail 
is an ideal spot to continue

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our look at the selfishness paradigm.

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We have to wait to see a pure expression of
the loving-kindness paradigm, God's paradigm.

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We won't see that until heaven.

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But today, even though Satan
has twisted things around severely,

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God, as master designer of
the earth, can still be seen.

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The author Ellen White, in
the book Desire of Ages,

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talks about how there's
both good and evil in the world,

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and we can see God in nature still.

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Where the only thing that is,
or can completely be evil,

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is the hearts of those humans
who decide to be wholly evil.

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And here is what she says
on page twenty of her book.

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She says, "Now sin has
marred God's perfect work,

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yet that handwriting remains.

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Even now, all created things
declare the glory of His excellence.

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There is nothing, save the selfish
heart of man, that lives unto itself.

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No bird that cleaves the air, nor
animal that moves upon the ground,

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but ministers to some other life.

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There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly
blade of grass but has its ministry.

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Every tree and shrub and leaf
pours forth that element of life

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without which neither
man nor animal could live.

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And man and animal, in turn, minister to
the life of the tree and shrub and leaf.

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The flowers breathe fragrance and unfold
their beauty in blessing to the world,

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the sun sheds its light to
gladden a thousand worlds.

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The ocean, itself the source of
all of our springs and fountains,

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receives the streams from
every land, but takes to give.

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The mists ascending from its bosom
fall in showers to water the earth,

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that it may bring forth and bud."