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Understand or don't, it is still valid

Just because you don't understand the reason for something doesn't mean there isn't a reason at all. Rev. Matt Powell  I stole this quote straight off a blog from One Thousand Gifts author Ann Voskamp .  And the day I read it it just, well, hit me!  In the article she got it from (you can see now that us bloggers steal each other's stuff all the time) Rev. Powell was using today's quote as part of a teaching on commands that we don't understand because of the long standing traditions of ethics and morality behind them that we haven't either bothered to investigate or have come to a dead end on the investigation.  (If you are interested in reading the blog from Rev Powell click here  - and don't comment to me about the overall topic of the article, just read it and do what you will with it!  I'm so not up for nor interested in debate of any sort.)  Growing up I am sure most of us heard our parents or other loved ones say things like, "Stop a...