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I wrote this talk some years ago when I worked in the University of

Sydney in Australia, their Catholic chaplaincy.

And one of the things that kind of was, I loved that job, it was fantastic,

but one of the things that kind of made me question is

it was such a beautiful country with gorgeous nature,

kind of like here, you're close to the wire,

you got this really beautiful place.

And really, everybody had what they needed for living.

Like, it's not a country that lacks resources. And people were friendly.

It was a great place to live in many ways. And yet, there was a lot, a lot of depression among

the young, even hopelessness, I would say. And so I actually, this talk came out of a desire

of my heart to actually explore what are some of the ways that we might be

even inadvertently even not aware of how we've fallen into just surviving when we were actually meant to thrive

and it actually is rooted in my favorite passage of scripture which is Jesus kind of own self-statement of his mission.

It's John 10-10. I'm terrible at memorizing numbers, so I like that as John 10-10.

When Jesus says, I came that you might have life and habit to the full.

And if you just paused on that phrase, like if you just said literally thought about it right now,

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