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In the dark corners of the inner city, the most destitute people in society are searching for anything to numb their hurting souls. And there are some who display the most extreme mix of need and anticipation: the twenty-piece shuffle, a jittery walk marked by wide-eyed desperation, named after the street tag for a piece of crack cocaine. But the addiction to whatever will numb a troubled spirit...

I realize that my urge to help others is often rooted in a desire to avoid facing the things I need help with; I may even turn away from people because it bruises my ego to discover that their poverty is too deeply entrenched for me to overcome. Ken’s tremendous capacity for celebration—his richness as a celebrant of God’s grace—reveals to me the miserliness of my own unthankful soul and encourages me to rejoice more deeply in the good things I have; to recognize, in fact, that my own wealth is so
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