Are you overwhelmed? I want to help you. This is going to be a little bit an orthodox sermon.

As a pastor and a preacher, my passion is not just to

sermonize or pontificate, it is to serve you. To serve you in this community,

whether today you're watching in Kirkland, Washington, where our church began,

or whether you're watching in India right now facing unprecedented pain,

loss, and challenges. Wherever you are right now, Singapore, in Tokyo, in Ghana,

in Nashville, in Miami, wherever you are watching, I want to help you with that feeling,

that sensation, that emotion, called overwhelmed. What does it mean to be overwhelmed?

Well, simply put it means you feel like you are not a good match for all that is required of you.

For instance, let's say you have a list, a to-do list, like many people use still today,

and maybe you look at that to-do list and you think, I cannot do all that is on my list to do.

Maybe on that to-do list is to care and think about those in pain, in loss, and struggling

all over the world. We are facing together these unusual, unprecedented, painful and challenging days

that in some cases feel like they just keep going on and on and on. There isn't a people,

not only in this country, but many countries all over the world. There is a cry for help with

this pain in pandemic, and there is a cry for true justice, equity, and equality. What I have found

within our own community is a recurring theme, and this theme goes something like this,

I just feel overwhelmed. I feel weary. I feel worn out. I feel behind. I feel lacking. I feel less

than. I want to help you with that. I want to speak to that. Now, this is definitely one of those

messages and one of those talks and sermons that if right now you're thinking, well, this doesn't

really apply to me. I've actually had the best string of days in my whole life. I am so happy to hear

that. This is a sermon you could tuck away for the time you do feel overwhelmed. Truth is, for those

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