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(6:15) Drawing Closer: The Mysterious Equations Of Love · Filled with His Love

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to Drawing Closer, a Monday thought from Filled with His Love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lolly and I recently watched the film A Beautiful Mind for the second time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It tells the story of John Nash, the mathematician and Nobel Prize winner who suffered from schizophrenia for many years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I view it largely as a film about relationships because Nash's wife, Alicia, was in many ways the hero of the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their marriage was deeply strained by his illness, and I mean deeply strained, and they eventually divorced.
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  SPEAKER_00: But later they remarried.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her love was not simple or easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It endured through years of extraordinary difficulty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Near the end of the film, Nash pays tribute to Alicia.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words were created by the screenwriters, but I still find them deeply moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quote I have made the most important discovery of my career.
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  SPEAKER_00: The most important discovery of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just going to read that one more time because I like it so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mysterious equations of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love cannot be reduced to numbers or fully captured in words.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is more than a series of logical decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is a choice, but it also reaches beyond logic.
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  SPEAKER_00: When two people love each other, something about that love remains unexplainable.
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  SPEAKER_00: They simply know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God's love for us is even grander and more mysterious.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is infinite.
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  SPEAKER_00: No equation can explain it.
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  SPEAKER_00: No words can fully define it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is greater than anything else in the universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: His love is real, more real than all the tangible things that surround us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when life feels heavy or confusing or empty, let's pray that we can be filled with his love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and let's draw a little closer to God and to each other.