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In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Patrick Miller. I have a friend who is honestly one of the

most kind and generous people I know. We'll just call her Kelly. That's not her name. But Kelly is

always willing to help. She always says

yes. She always shows up when people need her. When Kelly was in college, she had a roommate that

she honestly didn't know very well. But again, Kelly is just that kind of person who's always

trying to show kindness. And so one day when that roommate asked Kelly if a friend of hers could

crash at their place overnight, Kelly said,

yeah, sure, absolutely. And when her roommate went on and said, oh, and could she borrow your air

mattress? Again, Kelly said, happy to serve, of course. Now, after one night passed, her roommate

came back to her and said, hey, can my friend actually stay for a second night? And again, of course,

Kelly said yes. And then her roommate

asked for a third and a fourth night. By this point, the friend staying over, what was becoming

something of an inconvenience, because that friend literally slept in their living room, their shared

space, and she kept really strange hours. She stayed up really late and would keep them up, and she would

sleep in until lunch. And so every time Kelly was up in the mornings trying to get ready for class, that friend was

asleep in the living room.

And so Kelly felt like she had to tiptoe around not to wake her up.

And when that friend was awake, she was more than a little strange, a little bit tough to be

around.

But again, Kelly is a long-suffering friend.

And I think in this, she's a lot like Jesus.

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