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🗓️ 2 March 2021
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Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent.
Obedience precedes understanding.
We are made for adventure. But adventure means mystery and uncertainty. Often, what holds us back from action is a lack of knowing why. But what if there is a better question than “why?”? What if the adventure of obedience means asking “how?”?
Mark 9:2-10
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0:00.0 | So in 1928, there's a man who was born, his name was Andy. |
0:04.6 | He was born in the Netherlands. |
0:07.6 | And from an early age, he wanted his life to be an adventure. |
0:10.7 | That was the movie, that would be his life. |
0:13.2 | It would be an adventure. |
0:14.4 | When Andy was 11 years old, the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. |
0:19.4 | And by the time Andy was 18 years old, he had joined the Dutch resistance to the Nazis. |
0:25.4 | He's been the next two years of his life not only seeing, but doing what he considered |
0:31.6 | to be some of the most horrendous things a human being could do to another human being. |
0:37.6 | And his mom was Christian and she had this Bible that was super worn. |
0:41.6 | And at one point, she gave him her Bible and he carried it with him. |
0:45.9 | He never read it, but he carried it with him, which is, I guess, a good step. |
0:51.0 | And the pursuit of his adventures and the pursuit of fighting against Hitler when Andy |
0:56.9 | was 20 years old, he got shot through the ankle, just shattered his ankle and he found |
1:01.5 | himself at 20 years old lying in bed with this longing and his heart to still have a life |
1:07.6 | that's a life of adventure, but he had no idea how he would do this because he was completely |
1:13.5 | immobilized. |
1:14.5 | All of his dreams were done. |
1:18.0 | And for this dream that I want my life to be an adventure. |
1:21.7 | You know, I hear about that and I think about that and maybe talk about this right now. |
1:26.6 | And it's one of those situations where I think a lot of us, that's what we'd like our |
1:29.3 | lives to be. |
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