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Everyone who has ever had expectations knows disappointment. Friends break their word, marriages end in divorce, our children move away and take our grandchildren with them, doctors can’t cure our ailments, people use us for their own ends, our investments go bust; but often our biggest disappointment is ourselves and what we have or have not done. We live in a world full of disappointment, and if we do not grapple with this reality, we are doomed to be unhappier tomorrow than we are today.

I recently made my first trip to Clearwater Christian College. Dr. Dave Burggraff asked me to come and do a three-day presentation on the book that I just wrote about having daily personal devotions. I flew into Tampa on a rainy Tuesday night just ahead of Ernesto.