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🗓️ 3 May 2021
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Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter.
Practice making the promise.
We find ourselves always moving and never done. We have so many options that we experience decision paralysis and subsequent decision dissatisfaction. But we are made for a full life. A full life is only possible when we intentionally limit ourselves by making the decision to love this person or to root ourselves in this place. Ultimately, unless we truly decide to remain in Christ, we will never experience the life we have been made for.
John 10:11-18
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0:00.0 | So, you know what, the end of the semester is always one of those situations where it |
0:06.8 | is typically the end of the semester is one of those situations where it's like you've |
0:10.3 | been ramping up for this moment like the entire not just this semester but this entire |
0:13.8 | year and racing and racing and going to class and back and all the extracurriculars and |
0:17.5 | back and all the activity and back and then it's like you're going to cross the finish line |
0:22.0 | like I'm finally done and this year is kind of like, well, we're just in the situation |
0:27.9 | right, like all my racing off the class is me rolling over, opening my laptop and turning |
0:31.8 | off the camera like that's like and so there's it's almost one of those maybe okay this |
0:36.2 | might not be your experience but a lot of us have had the experience of a really weird |
0:40.2 | not just semester really weird here where it's just kind of like you're coming to the |
0:43.4 | end and Jenna is just kind of like you're done now? Oh, okay, I guess, I guess it's over. |
0:49.8 | No, at the same time it might be the opposite you might be like oh my gosh I am so over |
0:54.6 | my head right now and just I'm taking this one hour so speed it up father because we |
0:57.8 | got to get going, we got to get back to work because what's going to happen is by the end |
1:01.3 | of this week or if you're from CSS again by the end of next week you'll finally be done |
1:05.7 | and there's something so good gosh isn't there something so good about just having getting |
1:10.0 | to that place where you have a moment when it's just I don't have anything more to do like |
1:15.2 | everything I was supposed to do it's all done I have nothing left to do that is such a |
1:19.2 | good feeling so hang in there you guys but that that's an unusual feeling for modern human |
1:26.2 | beings that feeling of like I'm done there's nothing left to do that is so foreign to almost |
1:32.7 | all of us in fact I was reading some articles that talked about one of the modern phenomena |
1:37.6 | that we have right now is one of the reasons for our heightened levels levels of stress, |
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