When I pray in my office, which sits directly next to 635.

I always do it with the awareness in the background that traffic is just zooming by.

You can hear it.

Zoom, zoom, like everyone is racing to and fro.

They're trying to get wherever it is they're going.

And it just stands as this great irony to me

that in the middle of my moment of quiet,

the world knows nothing about it.

But isn't there such clarity in the quiet?

To have a moment to just reorient yourself,

to kind of just stop everything as it was running and instead take a stand of faith, because that's actually what you just did, whether you believe it or not. You just made a deliberate move away from the way in which everything normally runs.

Like the rest of the world has already got you scheduled.

Your inbox is filling up as we speak.

Some of you haven't cleared them in the last week.

Your calendar has things still set ahead.

Your phones, which might have gone off in that moment,

are trying to break into the silence.

The world is wanting, man.

They want for you to give them their attention.

And yet here's the amazing thing.

What happens when we take our attention back?

Something amazing happens. You make a declaration of faith. You take a stand against the world,

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