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Today's talk is a powerful eastern message given by pastor Ben Stewart.

I read an interview a couple years ago with the director Joss Whedon. Joss Whedon is the director of the famous Avengers movies, the first two, and he's gotten a name for himself being the guy who writes epic stories about real evil in the world, real good, real heroes rising up to rescue those in jeopardy and set them free.

And he's kind of made a name for himself and made a lot of money

writing movies like that.

But Josh Sweden is also a very public and very outspoken atheist and as such he stated that he doesn't

believe there's any higher purpose or meaning in the world or in the universe because there's no higher being and so he will tweet things like everything is a drug

your family your arts your causes shoes, we're all just tweaking our chemicals to avoid the

void.

You know, real chipper stuff like that.

So in the interview I read, they were asking him so you you believe there's no purpose meeting in life

Yet over and over again when you tap into your creativity you write these stories about real evil that's really bad and real good that rises up to change

things.

Where does that come from?

Why do you keep writing stories like that if none of this means anything?

And this is what he said, and I'll quote him. He said

someone once asked me if I had anything like faith and I said I have faith in the

narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive, and I trust

will work itself out. And when I read that, I remember thinking, Joss, do you hear what you're saying?

There's a story, and it's a universal story that spans lifetimes and centuries, and that story is alive. It's bigger than me and as I sit down to tap into my creativity I keep writing into this story because there is a big story and I want to tell him you are right

there is a big story because there is a big author and he is writing a story in the world

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