L: Tell me, Preacher, you who spend many days in the presence of the Lord, you who immerse others in the waters of baptism, you who command a congregation in a solemn, sombre mood at the heel of the cross, you who reign behind a pulpit - a man of God... what is the meaning of this life?
Preacher: Son, I will tell you what the Lord has taught me through my regiment of faith and constant prayer. This life the Lord has bestowed you is not your own. You should not seek what pleases you or comes to you in your low state of ambition, for what is inside man but an unsettled mind and heart never fulfilled? Man should not seek purpose from within for man holds nothing inside him but a set of vestibules, and true salvation cannot be found in the hollows. Many men who do not look towards God, who determine themselves to have the final word and judgment, will folly in their search of meaning and demean their souls with false pursuits which bear the least nutritious fruit, and they will find themselves eternally hungry; for man does not know any better; he is naturally a fool. And I must make you aware of the many dark possibilities the path of the fool can lead you to. Many men who turn their eyes from the Lord will bite into the most rotten nuptials. The initial taste will be deceiving and devilish in its pleasure, but past the skin which Satan has laced, the flesh once ingested will be a source of corrosion to the body and the soul, and depravity and despair will naturally follow the fool's temptation. So you must seek purpose only in the Lord for the Lord Almighty is the sole mean to a life bathed in the warm light of glory and eternal truth.
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