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The Sacrifice of Priceless Desire

"Probably the most unexplainable reality in all of the universe is how can you have everything and simply want something else that you've been told not to get. That's madness. You've got billions of dollars and you sell your soul for a quarter that you see on the ground." -Dr. Dan Allender (Professor of Counseling Psychology) Humanity has the remarkable ability to adopt counterfeits of the true desires and goodness we were intended for. Sometimes the counterfeits are blatant mockeries of beauty and other times they aren't counterfeits at all--they're good things which distract us from better things. And while good things are indisputably to be sought, they are not designed to stand in the place of better things. Good things are intended to be pursued  in addition to better things; not in the place of them. However, we occasionally, unknown to ourselves, attempt to replace better things with either good things, or blatant counterfeits. I o