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🗓️ 22 October 2018
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Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What do I have to do to get what I want?
So much of our lives can be marked by the desire to control…or the fear of losing control. The rival of control can dominate. And the trust of praise and surrender can liberate.
Mark 10:35-45
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| 0:00.0 | So, you know those people who, the kind of people kind of charge into a situation and |
| 0:06.1 | they kind of take control of any kind of situation. |
| 0:08.7 | You might be one of these people, so we like you, you're welcome here and everything. |
| 0:11.4 | But, like, there are some people who, like, they walk into a situation and they're like, |
| 0:14.5 | okay, here's what's going to happen. |
| 0:16.0 | Like, this is what we're going to do right now. |
| 0:17.8 | I don't know, maybe you have a roommate like that, maybe you have, like, some friends like |
| 0:21.7 | this where they just come into any situation and they, they say those words basically, |
| 0:25.5 | whether they say the words or not doesn't matter because they do the thing, right? |
| 0:28.4 | It's like, here's what's going to happen. |
| 0:29.6 | This is what we're going to do. |
| 0:31.2 | They walk in any situation like to take control because what they have is like, they have a |
| 0:34.4 | plan. |
| 0:35.4 | They have a plan for their own lives. |
| 0:37.9 | And the plan for their own lives is like, this is the deal. |
| 0:40.4 | We're going to make this thing happen. |
| 0:41.8 | And I find those people both simultaneously admirable and really annoying because it's |
| 0:49.2 | just like, dude, just, just settle down a little bit. |
| 0:51.3 | But so often, there are so many people who just want to control stuff. |
| 0:55.7 | In fact, for a lot of us, that's one of our things. |
| 0:57.6 | We just want to control stuff. |
| 0:58.8 | Like, this is my life. |
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