Young adults; middle-aged people who realize that the goals of their youth have not brought them what they sought, and who are willing to look for meaning elsewhere. But I have to admit up front that not every middle-aged adult has this experience. Most don’t, in fact. Middle-aged migrant workers or refugees or subsistence farmers or sweatshop workers or oppressed minorities anywhere don’t have energy for such angst. This sort of mid-life search for meaning is a luxury available only to affluent people – you know, like most of us. But even if it isn’t universal, it is real, and it is important. And we find it in the Bible.
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