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Father, I ask now with great earnestness,

and I know that the brothers and sisters

are praying with me even as they see this by a camera

that you would come now.

You would touch them to give them hearts

to embrace and mind, to understand the truth

and grant me a good measure of your Holy Spirit.

So that I can be focused on what is true and beautiful

and be faithful to Scripture,

for the building up of our faith

and the strengthening of our hope

and the endurance of our joy in suffering.

And sorrow, I pray in Jesus name, amen.

One of those natural questions in the world

is to ask how joy and sorrow relate to each other.

Or how does happiness relate to pain and weeping?

And the reason I say it's natural

is because all of us experience both of them, right?

Sad, painful, disappointing, frustrating,

damaging things come into our lives more or less regularly.

Sometimes they're big, sometimes they're little,

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