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🗓️ 1 March 2020
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Homily from the First Sunday of Lent.
The decision that broke the world.
This world is not perfect. And we are not perfect. But imperfect does not mean unloved.
Matthew 4:1-11
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm sure that we've all had the experience talking to someone and when you're talking |
| 0:05.9 | to this person and something's clearly like something's clearly up with the person like |
| 0:09.6 | you know that they are clearly upset there's clearly something going on and you ask the |
| 0:12.8 | question what's wrong what is almost always their answer nothing okay good thank you so |
| 0:19.8 | much I was like I was expecting getting much different answers the answer is I was nothing |
| 0:23.5 | nothing nothing and sometimes I don't know sometimes they can be absolutely infuriating |
| 0:28.9 | just tell me please what's wrong nothing what's wrong nothing what's wrong now sometimes |
| 0:33.8 | it there is you just like sometimes I don't have an answer right sometimes I'm just like |
| 0:37.6 | I want you to dig it out of me because sometimes we need to know that the person asking us |
| 0:41.4 | what's wrong they really actually care to know what's wrong but sometimes when we are |
| 0:47.3 | asked that question what's wrong and we say nothing sometimes I think it's because |
| 0:52.1 | the real answer is I don't know like I'm not I'm not sure I don't exactly know because |
| 0:58.0 | something I've ever had this experience where something's wrong but you're like but I |
| 1:02.2 | don't think it should be like I I should be happy like maybe you had that experience where |
| 1:07.9 | you like maybe when you came to college or maybe when you got your first job or maybe |
| 1:12.0 | and you know here's you know two weeks after you got married that kind of thing of like |
| 1:15.9 | what's wrong I don't know because I I should be it should be all good and sometimes it |
| 1:22.0 | is sometimes I am but even then something's wrong and I think when we come up against that |
| 1:32.2 | that that question of what's wrong I think a lot of times either our default is denial |
| 1:36.7 | and nothing or a default is distraction where I don't know what it is but I'm not going |
| 1:43.2 | to think about it so I'm just going to go back to you know I've ever gotten to the thing |
| 1:46.8 | where you finish a series on Netflix or Hulu or whatever and you're like I need to find |
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