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from my beloved Damon Wells Chapel in Pembroke College, named after a generous and gracious

gentleman who not only restored the chapel and supported it, but also endowed the chaplaincy

and the chaplain.

Damon Wells died last week in Houston in Texas and it's nice to start off by seeing

how overlapping we are with those great people of faith. May he

rest in peace and rise in glory. It's a great privilege, a real privilege to stand here before you in all your verdant

strength of youth and to be able to reflect with you what it means for us to strive to build a beloved community.

Last month Martin Luther King III introduced this series of fora reflecting upon how we might

better become a beloved community.

I need to start with a short introductory thanks to all who have made this possible in

difficult circumstances. My time at BYU had an unexpected start and I'll come back to that a bit later.

But it's appropriate today for me to ask myself how how do I feel? And what's my responsibility in talking to you, my

dear friends, in whose debt I will ever be.

Well, how do I feel?

A little overwhelmed, I guess, but immensely grateful.

And what's my responsibility? Well I think I need to start to have with

beginning by avoiding any temptation to say things so that you might love or like me. Of course we need

to be loved, we need to be understood, but actually what a dreadfully self-centered way of viewing things of this time together that would be.

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