{"id":1578,"date":"2019-12-25T06:54:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeservis.com\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2019-12-25T06:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:54:32","slug":"goodness-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/25\/goodness-endures\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodness endures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For a world hardened by life, joy appears. In a time dimmed by a million meaningless diversions, the light of truth emerges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where angst and cynicism have engulfed awareness, hope begins to rise. When the day is overwhelmed with despair, kindness steps in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With grace, with humility, with eternal persistence, goodness endures, and grows. Subverting every challenge, goodness finds a place, however small, however unnoticed, to resonate in each heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In lives hardened by the world, a spark ignites new passion, renewed purpose. Words of truth transform chaos into order, despair into beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courage, strength, goodness are not always evident, not always engaged. Yet they persist, and never fail to come forth when needed most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a cold, clear night, sunlight warms the eastern sky. And new hope has been born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— Ralph Marston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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