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friend Riley. We met in Washington, D.C., did we, at the White House vigil? I don't
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remember. But you have been such a nice companion on Facebook. I think you're much younger than
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I, much younger than I, as I recall. And I want to share this with you. You, if I know
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20 people with a really good heart, beyond any two-year-olds, and then we kill their
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hearts. If I know any people your age or older with really good hearts, I want to share this
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with you. If I know any two-year-olds, and then we kill their hearts, if I know any people
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hearts you're one of them I'm quite sure no credit to you or get credit to anyone
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else active environment it certainly is in my case I have a good heart no credit
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to me and you can tell you have a good heart because you don't a good heart
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can't shut out the pain of others it doesn't wallow in it it never wallows in it because it
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becomes debilitated by that and can't serve those same suffering hearts or others
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but just as a skilled surgeon does not close her eyes
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though she might like to to avoid seeing the carnage she doesn't and the good heart
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doesn't close their eyes doesn't close itself off for the good for the same reason
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and I'm sharing this with you because
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judging from my own personal experience
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where as I say I have a good heart
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things have gotten well they haven't gotten worse
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in the world we're able to see more and more how bad it's always been we with good hearts
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we with alive hearts it can become self-destructive remain of a good seeing heart
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unless we gain
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the strength and skills
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to deal with it
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constructively and I can tell you
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in hindsight really the reason my soul has been dragging me
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for my whole life but intensely these last three years into serious discipleship of the man Jesus
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is because
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he was the brilliant
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scientist almost
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that figured out
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the competencies the way of understanding the world a way of understanding the world
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it really doesn't matter whether it corresponds it really doesn't matter whether it is a objective
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reality
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any more than it matters if math one plus one equals two is an objective reality
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it is aligned with reality lets us understand it let's just deal with it
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and for two reasons I share this with you
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I think it's likely that
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that the pain of your heart will either carry you apart or force you to
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anesthetize and
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disable your heart
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and there will be unnecessary unmanageable pain either way
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unless you do what I've done
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which is to put myself
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into serious discipleship
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of the man Jesus right there in the gospel
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and my purpose isn't to avoid my pain my purpose is to help others deal with theirs
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and to transcend that pain though it's still there into a joyful abundant life
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and even this morning I awaken with just an unexpected amazement astonishment
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of the brilliance of the man Jesus his writings right there in the gospel his example right there
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in the gospel absolute amazement the way one would be amazed that an impossibly beautiful
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or an impossibly beautiful masterwork of art he is the way the truth and the life
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not because anyone foretold him not because he filled fulfilled some prophecy
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just because he is he he was the gift to us that
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souls that are still alive humanity that is still alive in adults like I think it is in you
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we need it if we had been born and raised around people like jesus in an incredibly healthy
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community we wouldn't need it because we wouldn't have left behind what we have almost all left
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behind our humanity from our childhood but we've been ripped away from us
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and he wasn't or if he was he he got back to it quickly and embodied it ragingly
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and well you know what's her name simone biles apparently i i get in the idea that she has a
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dna given physique that equips her
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gives her advantages that many
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jim this don't have most people don't have but maybe she also was given a
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genius
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for gymnastics for physical motion through space
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but she certainly is that
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jesus was that
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as it relates to returning ourselves from these horrible
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cultures man-made cultures
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to our rightful place in god's kingdom i'm out in beautiful fields right now
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that's part of god's kingdom our cities are created to displace god's kingdom
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almost everything man-made is
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but most importantly the kingdom within us which we were born into as a child and then we were
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ripped from by our insane cultures thinking they were doing good so i have to share this with you
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and you totally get to ignore it but thank goodness you're here to share this with us
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Thank goodness you're in the world with us.
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Thank goodness for us.
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If I'm correct, much of your humanity has not been destroyed yet.
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But it's going to get so much worse, so much faster, so much more obviously,
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that unless someone like you gains incredible mastery and competence,
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at maintaining your humanity in impossibly evil, inhumane world,
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you'll lose it or we'll lose you.
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And maybe I'm wrong.
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But that's what I think and that's what I have to share with you.
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