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https://i0.wp.com/www.cccc.org/news_blogs/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/one-red-flower-1379611.jpg?fit=1392%2C960&ssl=11392960In exile, God wants us to make our new location home and focus on flourishing in this setting. He wants us to live facing the future, not mourning for the past, and he wants the exiled community to increase in health even though it is in exile.