People and events can cut in on us and throw our obedience off stride. Patterns of spiritual exercise get interrupted and become hard to resume.

我们可能被人和事阻挠，以致打乱了我们顺服的步伐，有规律的灵命操练一旦被中断，会变得很难恢复。

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And these true believers are not likely to be thrown off stride by a single cover story in Newsweek.

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It is obvious that the vast majority of us are off stride.

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"Any time he was in a fastball count, he'd go to his breaking ball or his changeup to keep us off stride, " Red Sox manager John Farrell said.

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