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🗓️ 21 December 2021
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.
Love without a commitment remains an illusion.
In order to truly grow in love, there needs to be the willingness to make a commitment. And there needs to be the ability to keep a commitment.
Luke 1:39-45
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0:00.0 | So we have been, for the last four weeks, we've been faced with this problem. |
0:06.1 | And our problem is that at the end of our lives, we're going to be judged on love, right? |
0:10.9 | And the twilight of our lives, we'll be judged on love alone. |
0:13.3 | And that's a problem because as we've kind of established, maybe you already knew this |
0:18.0 | going into this advent, you probably already knew that our hearts are small, that are not |
0:23.5 | only our hearts small, we keep them small. |
0:26.0 | That's the hard part. |
0:27.0 | That fact that our hearts are two sizes, two small, like the Grinch, right? |
0:30.4 | That's not a problem. |
0:31.4 | I mean, it's okay, but our hearts are too small and we keep them small. |
0:35.6 | And so the first week we talked about, how do we keep them too small? |
0:38.6 | Well, we're too full. |
0:39.6 | And there's no room for them to grow. |
0:41.2 | We then also realized the second week, we said, the only way to grow them is to be able |
0:45.2 | to discern what is a value and actually love the things that are worth loving. |
0:48.5 | So we need to have a bounding love. |
0:50.2 | But a bounding love is a focused love. |
0:52.5 | It's a love that says, okay, there are some things not worth my heart. |
0:55.3 | There are some things that are worth my heart to love those things. |
0:57.7 | And last week we talked about the fact that, okay, if I'm going to have a focused love, |
1:02.0 | that means that I'm going to have a magnanimous heart. |
1:04.4 | And that magnanimous heart is going to be a large heart in this that says, okay, whatever |
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