All right, Book of Joel, Chapter 1 is where we're going to be the Old Testament Book of Joel.

I'm saying that early because it's going to take you half my sermon to find the Book of Joel.

There are 12 minor prophets in the Old Testament.

So if you find Matthew and then you go left,

you only have to go 11 minor profits backwards.

You'll hit Malachi, and the first one is

Hosea, but Joel is the second of 12.

That probably didn't help you very much

if you don't know how to find Matthew. There's a great scene in

the movie Walk the Line. Waukeen Phoenix plays Johnny Cash. He's in the end of the movie standing at the boardroom of the record

executives of his record label and he's trying to convince them that he should be

allowed to go record a record live in a prison in front of the

maximum security population of the prison, and which he actually did a number of times

throughout his career and he's standing there in the room and they're like just completely bewildered by the concept and then in his frustration one of the record executive just goes,

and what's to deal with all the black?

What's like so depressing?

He said, you look like you're going to a funeral.

And then Waukeen Phoenix playing the man in black himself sort of

dead pans back maybe I am which is just effortlessly cool Johnny Cash maybe I am I

maybe I am I hope with all my heart that you will never need this sermon. But I fear

that maybe some of you will sooner than you think.

I want to talk to you today about the art of grief, the art of grieving, the idea of not just what to wear, but what happens in your heart,

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