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Us spectation, psition, be.
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S good morning morning, Please join me.
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They call the worship the apostle.
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Paul faced a challenge in his life, what he called.
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The thorn in the flesh.
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Three times he prayed and asked God to remove this thorn.
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The Lord said, my grace, situation, grad u power to
say psy and weakness.
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Therefore Paul posted of his weakness, so that the power
of Christ might dwell in him.
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To weedness harsh versus in the name of us.
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Needlessly the name of Christ. You know.
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We bring to you, a Lord, that your grace would
be sufficient for us, that your power would be perfect
in our weakness.
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But says.
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So sets.
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Set s s S.
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S school.
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Good one, church family. We start to meet. Good morning, Father,
what's the day have you been made?
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We go with joice and we go out in it.
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You, oh, are sovereign.
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You may even happens in the art with your lighting
power and your outstretched arms. Nothing is too difficult for you.
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You are God of hope, and we know a hope
growings in the heart of gratitude.
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Thank you for your endearing mom d you still love
the world that you gave us your only son, that
whoso one leaves with you. Why have you learn your promascy.
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Well?
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Thank you for your winding presence and an opportunity to
walk with you, jamily, and.
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The assurance that comes from knowing that you tell us
not to be discouraged, that you.
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Will never leave us. More of the says, thank you
God for being a god of wisdom, telling us you
will teach us and instruct just in the way.
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We should go.
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Thank you for the mo we read. You add your
strength to animals, and who waits on you, we will
be strong. Thank you for the avenue prayer you tell
us to never see spraying. What do we join you
to be?
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You join her to us?
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Our father, who are.
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Our will meet my name?
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I like hate you, no ill will be on honor
as it is happening.
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Give us to say our brand and.
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I the reat stars our fascist has to peers past.
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Against us and it's not usuation.
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What tonys real my feeling and am hour.
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And and the glory forever? Who is then?
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I get?
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I get.
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It's sins so spas.
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Since things so.
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So sus, we praise opinion.
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Lord, you have plussed us as such love and goodness.
Wonder at the beauty of your creation.
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Thank you for the sustance and your food and drink,
and we cherish the love of family in France.
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We offer these gifts to you with thankful hearts and
joyous price.
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As we give you our money and treasures, we surrender
our whole belongings to you worship and adoration you word,
May this offering the extend the work from your kingdom
and your church, your community, and from you made.
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That it.
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Made you seated.
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We enjoyed me a friend, but rageous God has become
together in worship into a temporary sanctuary. Sanctuary under presence.
We were coming at the end of a special weekend
in the life.
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Of our nation.
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If we have.
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Celebrated our Independence Day on July fourth, and extended those
celebrations student the weekend. We asked that, if we haven't
already done so, that she would help us today to
be mindful of the ideals that were sent at the
founding of this nation, ideals which in many.
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Ways are mired in scripture.
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The dignity of all persons, the equality of all persons
who have been created in your image, justice of liberty,
freedom of protecting the poor and the outcast, and the immigrant,
and the Widow and the Orphan, and those founding documents,
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both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and Bill
of Rights that followed after the Revolutionary War. These ideals
were invented into the hope of creating a new.
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Nation that are still worth struggling for and fighting for.
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We ask the God that you would continue to forgive
our nation, are people, our society.
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For the ways in which we have tried the fallen
short of their finials. We know the history.
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Of enslaving persons from Africa, forcing them against their wills.
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To work without pay for generations.
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Both since we have committed to native peoples for the
ways of which the rights of women were slow to
come in our nation, the ideals we stated, living them
has been much more different. Just as it is much
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easier for us to read your word and to understand
than it is to live by it. So forgive us
as a people and to the nation, who have fallen
short of the ideals that we claire. But we ask
of God that had forgiving us, that you would inspire
us as a people as a nation to keep pushing
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and living by those ideas, holding them up as a standard.
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Flipperty and justice for all, Oh God, even as we
pregn for you this week, for our nation and for
our society, we are aware that what we ask you
to bless us and strengthen us as a nation. We
know that you love all nations, and.
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That while we have a special home here and love
of the ideals that we live by or seem to
live by, that your grace is in all nations of
this world. Remind us that in having pride for our
country should not diminish the love you have for other nations.
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And the number one nation can embody your will for
this earth.
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So as we celebrate our nation's family, help us to
also live in humility.
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That you love all.
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Peoples and call us call our nation to work in
peace and liberty and freedom for all peoples of the world,
not just for ourselves.
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We ask for God, in the comings or goings of
this holiday, that you will keep us safe on the
roads and in disguise and all the ways that.
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People travel on these holidays.
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If we are apart from family, help us to connect
with them until we return together again. For those of
our congregation that celebrate the holiday recovering from surgery or
in hospitals, or recovery censors or rehabilitation places. We ask
that you would strengthen their lives, help us to connect
with them in this time of health concerns. All these
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things are God being lived up to.
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You, asking to you would guide us as a people,
as a church, and as your disciples in Christ.
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Jesus be praying, Amen, Amen, Our inn.
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Scripture passes this morning comes from the prophet Isaiah in
the fortieth chapter.
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Will be reading verses twenty eight through thirty one.
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Have you not known? Have you not heard?
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The Lord?
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Is he ever lasting God, the creator of beins of word.
He does not grow faith or grow weary. His understanding
is unsearchable. He gives power to the.
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Faith and strengthens the powerless. Even yous will fail and
be weary, and the young will fall exalted exhausted. But
those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall
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run and not be weary. They shall walk and not fame.
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Do.
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The words of the second prop.
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Of Isaida are some of the those beautiful scripture handled
primarily relies on this pod throughout the first and second
sections of the Messiah, and only shifts to all new
Testament readings in the third and final Resurrection section. This
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chapter in Isaiah chapter forty was his favorite, and he
frequently uses it in that famous oratorio. This beautifully written
chapter concludes with the words we read earlier in worship.
The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the
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ends of the earth. He does not faint for ro weary,
and its understanding is unsearchable.
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He gives power to the faith and strengthens the powerless.
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Even us will faint and be weary, and the young
will fall exhausted.
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But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall about up with wings like eagles.
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They shall not and not be weary. They shall walk
and not faint. You know, we know almost nothing about
this prophet, this poet who has the audacity to add
to the scroll of of the Isaiah.
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Of this there is no doubt. The ratual Isaiah.
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Live and serve as a prophet in Jerusalem in the
decades around seven hundred BC. His work ends with chapter
thirty nine, roughly two hundred years later. This anonymous prophet
as new prophecies written.
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In the tradition rab and of appreciation.
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For Isaiah, beginning with chapter forty, so it's possibly abound
five hundred BC, give or take a few decades. When
this prophet speaks, Jewish exiles had been living in Bamalog
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seventy five, one hundred years. They were now under the
third or fourth generation of living in this foreign land.
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The poet was one of these anxiles.
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Only the oldest of peoples could remember what Jerusalem looked like.
They had been forced to live as refugees for some law.
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For most of the people to that.
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And Jerusalem were just simply in their imaginations. They had
grown weary of waiting, tired of triumph, faint for a
future that never arrived.
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This moment breaks forth a new song, a new polacy.
This posy, who.
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Lived his entire life as a refugee as of exile,
speaks of a resiliency.
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That God provides the.
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Weary, the tired, and the faiths.
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We just celebrated the two hundred and forty eight anniversary
of our nation's founding.
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On Thursday July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
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Fifty six men side the Declaration of Independence as great
representatives of the thirteen British colonies. The declaration is full
of ideals for creating a new independent nation, along with
a list of reasons for why the colonies were declaring
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themselves separate from England. While we speak of July fourth,
seventeen seventy six as the birth of our nation, the
Declaration and the Constitution of mill Andie that followed the
Revolutionary War speak to ideals that have been forming for
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well over a century in this land.
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The men who wrote and signed this document.
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Spoke of the equality of all people, of the ideals
of providing liberty and justice for all, so that all.
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May pursue their own happiness. They provided a structure by
which that we might create a.
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Never about a republic that would be guided by the
right to vote and the rule of law.
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We've heard many of.
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These ideals as Susannah and Donna and Spencer read the
words of Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln and
Martin lu King Junior. We also heard how it has
taken many these two hundred and forty eight years to
realize those ideals, and some had yet to be fully realized.
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And after Volla the resiliency, it took for generations of
enslaved persons to survive.
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And to maintain their.
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Dignity against insurmountable odds with which they faced until they.
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Finally gained their freedom. Or of the women of this
nation who had to first fight for the right to vote,
to protest, to march, to argue.
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To debate it, and then the decades of the twentieth
century to find.
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A gain evil rights with men in this nation, or
of black.
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Citizens after fighting for their freedom, then persevere through decades
of gim cronologus red lighting of the neighborhoods after fighting
for this station in World War Two, to return and
be denied the GI support GI bill support that went
to white soldiers but for the most part was not
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given to black soldiers, or waiting.
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For loans for the faja, which did not come.
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To black families but only to white families to bill
up their beginning.
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I think of the.
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Resiliency that has.
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Taken persons to keep fighting for what we said as
a nation.
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We declared for all in seventeen seventy six.
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Part of the King Junior Black to quart of phrase
that was first stated by a passion of the nineteenth century.
The part of the moral universe is law, but it
bends towards justice, resiliency. It is at the heart of
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this experiment in democracy that we have been practicing as.
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A nation for two hundred and forty eight years. Liberty
and justice for all remains and I here we're structing for.
But it will only be realized.
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If we continue to cultimate resiliency.
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To be added, and keep added, and keep add it.
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So how do we cultivate resiliency at these prosperous times
when it's so easy just to quick and start something
new when we don't like how things are going. There
are several habits that I could go on that you
can read about in any number of self help books,
but I want to mention two now, and then we
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want two more important factors are probably not in a
self help books.
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Developing a clear sense of direction.
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Of purpose of a goal that you want to achieve
is one of those things that you could read about
in any good self help book.
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It's easy in our lives to realize what most people
want a job, to make some money, companionship or vollume love,
time to enjoy life to some extent or another.
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But without a clear.
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Sense of direction or a sense of purpose, it is
far too easy for those things to be realized, but
then in an aimless journey to start and stop over
and over again, one job after another, one relationship after another.
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One fun event that we go to, and then we
move on to something else. Life will push and pull
you around like a vote without a letter, until you'd
either find or determine a guiding principle for your life.
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Working at determination in another habit that would help you
to build a resiliency.
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Gord McDonald in his book of Resilient Life, speaks about
the experience he had as a track athlete when he
was recruited and signed at the University of Colorado.
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He arrived that fall and was paired with Bill to Me,
who would later go on to burn a gold medal
into the Catlaw at the Olympics. At first, both of these.
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Athletes, as freshmen, would one of the times pretty closely
to the pushing and pushing one another on the track.
But McDonald talks about his own experience that when practice
was over, to conceive that his coach had given them
he was ready to shower and to get dressed and
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go do something fun on canvas.
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He was, after all a college rushman.
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But to me, you know, would stick a rout, go
back out to the track by himself and run through
every workout that their coach had put them through for
the past hour to two hours. By the end of
the semester, Gordon McDonnell said he never been to me again.
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By the end of the year, there was a significant.
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Gap between the two. Both men young them were talented.
That was not the difficulty. Determination was the difference.
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To me was simply the poor determined, and they provided
a resimbiency.
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For him that turned him into a gold medal Olympic.
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After you can go on and google resiliency and meet
about other habits.
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That will help you cultivate it.
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But these two are that which most things derived from
a sense of direction and to fortify your determination. There
are two practices, however, that are more informed than all
these techniques you could read about in a vooting or
listen to in a podcast.
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Scott Peck in his classic.
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Book of a Generation Ago, The Road Best Travel, began
with a simple sentence, life is difficult.
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That sentiment is repeated.
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Numerous times in a book that came out last year
titled The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Mark Charles,
which is a narrative of an.
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A six year Harvard studies.
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Of over a thousand people, and tho the sentence is
writing down the longest continuing study of human lives. Their
subjects then things like finding World War II, the Korean
and Vietnam wars than the police wars of the past
fourth century.
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They've dealt with cancer, with strokes, with heart attacks, with
the depths of ho the wives.
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They've dealt with addiction and depression, and unemployment and retirement.
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And any other challenge that we can meet in life.
This study, which began in nineteen.
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Thirty eight in Boston, has categorized what has helped people
to thrive in life, what has helped them to overcome
great challenges, and what decisions end up getting them.
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Laws in mind.
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The good life tells wonderful stories about how life can
be beaten and joyous.
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And how sooner or later, every one of us are
going to face real challenges.
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This eighty six year Harvard study has about one single.
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Clear and overwhelming factor that builds.
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Resiliency and revives meaning and joy in our lives. Kiddy,
guess what it is for share? It's relationships.
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It's relationships, It's the people together in this congregation right
now in the sanctuary. The best way to cultivate relationships
is resiliency is through our relationships. Nothing else close comes
close in the study to providing meeting and joy and
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be ciliency that.
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It takes to live this life, which is difficult. Once
the Harvard study had enough subjects that had lived a
healthy and happy lives went.
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Into their ages, they were able to go back in
time because they had all this all this information from
all these interviews every couple of years, from all these objects,
all this information, they went back to see if there
was any commonality between all those people who weren't healthy
and happy in their ages. Was there something back in
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time that could tell the rest of us who are
living now, what might help us to live a full life.
It wasn't how well their cholesterol levels.
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Were doing in middle age.
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It wasn't how rich their MAK accounts were in middle age.
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The people who.
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Were most satisfied with the relationships at age fifty were
the healthiest mentally and physically at age eighty. That's worth repeating.
Those who are most satisfied with their relationships at age
fifty were the healthiest mentally and physically at age eighty
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and the type of relationships it doesn't really matter how
they are. Wonderful spouse, yes, makes it rmous difference. But
a person who lives a looking but who has great
friendships or wonderful colleagues at work, whose relationships go beyond
nine to five are who has deep family relationships with children, siblings.
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And cousins.
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Even the casual relationships that we often don't think of
make a positive impact.
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The Marisa who you chat with every.
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Morning as you get coffee, and you see this person
over and over and over again before you go to boss,
or any other person.
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That has these casual interactions. These two make a difference
in our lives.
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When we advent in our lives and others people will.
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We develop relationships.
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Of all times, we are cultivating the most powerful force
of resiliency in human nature. The old clichet is true,
relationships double our jewelry, and they cut our pain and half. Loneliness, however,
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is more pervasive in our society than it has ever
been before, so much so that loneliness is now considered
a health risk. I'll think, some of you haven't been
to the doctor and you've met an ass are you
saving home?
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Are you loneliness?
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Questions along that line, because now they're realizing loneliness is
a killer. In fact, the only activity you can do
that's more dangerous than loneliness is smoking cigarettous.
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So I guess maybe if you like to smoke, you
need to go outside and do it with the people,
or build pressures, and they can't be that out of
my bis.
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I do not think it is equizens that at the
same time that our society is experiencing.
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Loneliness the most ever has.
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May also be the most divided and angry it has
been since the Civil War.
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Lonely people are not resilient. They look for a quick fire,
which is pervasive in our culture. They don't have people
of trust.
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They are suspicious of others and quickly blame others for
their problems. We think we often talk about and we
have a political problem or immigracial problem or a racial problem.
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In our country, where may what we really have is
simply a loveliness problem. We're not working on our.
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Relationships that build within us, resiliency and hope and bigger
and promise, cultivating relationships, working and building all those of
friendships and contacts of those who are all around us
are the best way to build and cultivate resiliency within
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our lives, within the fellowship of our church, and for
our nation. And one of those relationships that cultivates resiliency.
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Is a relationship that we can have with God. This
is what the prophet Isaiah was claiming this prophecy at
the end of chapter forty as he began.
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This new section in the prophets Isaiah's stroll, this gain,
this new song to sing. Isaiah had lived a life
where he had been prompressed by all of them others
who had conquered his homeland.
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He was an exile or refugee.
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He had either lost.
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Everything or was a child of parents who had lost everything,
and somewhere God's word gave him a vision of hope
that we realized through resiliency. He speaks of how even
the young girl weary, and they seem have an endless energy,
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but even they become.
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Weary and grow tired and fatigue.
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But he concluded by saying, those who wait for the
bard shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with
wings like eagles. They shall run, I'll be weary, they
shall walk and knock fad. The phrase waiting for the
Board is said a couple dozen times, do out the
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Bible all the a New Testaments, about half of those
have our heart are into songs, which are prayers.
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Waiting for the Lord begins with an attitude of prayer.
By that I mean this, we do all we can do.
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Then we place our lives and whatever is happening in
our life into the hands of the Board, into the
God that we trustle This doesn't mean that everything's going
to work.
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Out be successful, but it means that.
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We will trust God God to get us through whatever
we are facing. This says of being committed to doing
what we can, but leading the outcome to God provides
us with an inner strength because.
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It keeps us focused on what we can control.
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We focus on what we can do, what we can control,
and then we let the outcome go to God. We
don't worry about it, We give it to God.
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Waiting on the Lord is an affirmation that we are
created in God's image and love by God. We can
wait on the Lord because we believe that God has
made us with a purpose for something in our lives
and that we are.
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Loved by God as we are.
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We're Nae Brown, the Great researcher about shame and vulnerability
today says that one of us will resipient so that
we can cultivate is.
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That we are good enough.
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Everyone.
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We're good enough as God created us, despite all the
way to get judgments world on the job, about our bodies,
in school, on social media. If we realize and truly
believe that we are good enough, created love by God,
we gain a stame power through all the challenges we face.
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This country has ideals worth struggling for, striving for pure
life has meaning and purpose for which God created you.
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Let us cultivate resiliency to give us the stamina to
finish what God has started.
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Those who wait for the lords chap their strange. They
shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run
and not be reading. They shall want a non family
a man.
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Wow.
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That is at a bachelor's tradition. We am our worship
service with the invitation and a commitment can and we
advite you to.
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Maybe you're not a Christian, but you want to follow
Jesus Christ to be baptized and disciple, or maybe have
been a Christian for many years but you're looking for
a church home.
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We would gladly receive you into our church family. Whatever
decision that you have, we say about the community table where.
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Alright, that's it. I'll manage a couple of things. So
I do when apprist all those who can't make.
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Worship hiding for us to day beginning with a chucker
in life and make sure that we've got sound and
progression and everything kind of works together. So I really
appreciate them kind of behind the scenes and doing all
those things for us.
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For when and for Ben, thank you all for leading
us and worship with.
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Prayer and first you and and Spencer, thank you all
for leading us with those readings that reminded us as
a nation.
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And for Brett, Thank you Dolly.
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For Alex.
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So coming before us today is Alex gold m. Alex
would like to join our congregation, would be part of
this membership.
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And he has becoming in this community, has been through
recovery program and came to know this congregation because of
those folks from our congregation who have gone in the
past or recovery point and have had that opportunity to
just interact with them.
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And so he was like, Yeah, I wanna see what
this church is am at me, and you wanna keep
on coming back.
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So if you joined me and we from Alex as
a member of his our congregation, would you say me man.
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And Alex w good you first to welcome you and
to ask that we require our best to make you
better Christian. We just asked you would help us and
be a good, better church. Oh my tents.
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Yeah, I'm gonna let youdcy for a moment, uh right,
and then after the min addiction, if you'll come back
up here and to stand here, I'll ask everybody else
to come forward and just read alls and welcome him
enter my congregation.
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Uh. I'm gonna mention one other thing to you that
I need to uh sh is information you need to
share with you all. Uh So Uh, I have a
class A cancer and I'm gonna have to have surgery
uh near the end of August, and think of work
with the staff well.
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And have things plotted out that while I'll be away
for a couple of Sundays, all the things.
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That we are planned for.
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This small ship would go continue on, but I will
come your prayers as I get nearer to that event,
So you'll notice I'm gonna be gone a couple of
weeks at the end of August, so I'll be hopefully
recovering quickly from that.
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That's all there is a think about that thing.
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Yeah, and understanding of your prayers, list stand together and
never see gonna take you know everything, m friends, As
would go back out into the world, do justice, love, kindness,
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and while comely with God.
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And as you go, know that the creator of.
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The universe has already prepared away for you and Jesus
the Christ walks beside you every step of the way,
and God's love the Holy Spirit will surround you and
protect you and guide you through all the tuil faces leaving.
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So friends, go in God's peace. Amen.
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A man who was a friends man
Us spectation, psition, be.
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S good morning morning, Please join me.
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They call the worship the apostle.
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Paul faced a challenge in his life, what he called.
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The thorn in the flesh.
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Three times he prayed and asked God to remove this thorn.
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The Lord said, my grace, situation, grad u power to
say psy and weakness.
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Therefore Paul posted of his weakness, so that the power
of Christ might dwell in him.
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To weedness harsh versus in the name of us.
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Needlessly the name of Christ. You know.
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We bring to you, a Lord, that your grace would
be sufficient for us, that your power would be perfect
in our weakness.
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But says.
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So sets.
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Set s s S.
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Good one, church family. We start to meet. Good morning, Father,
what's the day have you been made?
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We go with joice and we go out in it.
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You, oh, are sovereign.
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You may even happens in the art with your lighting
power and your outstretched arms. Nothing is too difficult for you.
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You are God of hope, and we know a hope
growings in the heart of gratitude.
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Thank you for your endearing mom d you still love
the world that you gave us your only son, that
whoso one leaves with you. Why have you learn your promascy.
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Well?
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Thank you for your winding presence and an opportunity to
walk with you, jamily, and.
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The assurance that comes from knowing that you tell us
not to be discouraged, that you.
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Will never leave us. More of the says, thank you
God for being a god of wisdom, telling us you
will teach us and instruct just in the way.
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We should go.
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Thank you for the mo we read. You add your
strength to animals, and who waits on you, we will
be strong. Thank you for the avenue prayer you tell
us to never see spraying. What do we join you
to be?
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You join her to us?
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Our father, who are.
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Our will meet my name?
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I like hate you, no ill will be on honor
as it is happening.
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Give us to say our brand and.
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I the reat stars our fascist has to peers past.
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Against us and it's not usuation.
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What tonys real my feeling and am hour.
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And and the glory forever? Who is then?
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I get?
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I get.
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It's sins so spas.
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Since things so.
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So sus, we praise opinion.
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Lord, you have plussed us as such love and goodness.
Wonder at the beauty of your creation.
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Thank you for the sustance and your food and drink,
and we cherish the love of family in France.
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We offer these gifts to you with thankful hearts and
joyous price.
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As we give you our money and treasures, we surrender
our whole belongings to you worship and adoration you word,
May this offering the extend the work from your kingdom
and your church, your community, and from you made.
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That it.
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Made you seated.
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We enjoyed me a friend, but rageous God has become
together in worship into a temporary sanctuary. Sanctuary under presence.
We were coming at the end of a special weekend
in the life.
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Of our nation.
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If we have.
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Celebrated our Independence Day on July fourth, and extended those
celebrations student the weekend. We asked that, if we haven't
already done so, that she would help us today to
be mindful of the ideals that were sent at the
founding of this nation, ideals which in many.
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Ways are mired in scripture.
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The dignity of all persons, the equality of all persons
who have been created in your image, justice of liberty,
freedom of protecting the poor and the outcast, and the immigrant,
and the Widow and the Orphan, and those founding documents,
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both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and Bill
of Rights that followed after the Revolutionary War. These ideals
were invented into the hope of creating a new.
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Nation that are still worth struggling for and fighting for.
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We ask the God that you would continue to forgive
our nation, are people, our society.
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For the ways in which we have tried the fallen
short of their finials. We know the history.
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Of enslaving persons from Africa, forcing them against their wills.
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To work without pay for generations.
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Both since we have committed to native peoples for the
ways of which the rights of women were slow to
come in our nation, the ideals we stated, living them
has been much more different. Just as it is much
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easier for us to read your word and to understand
than it is to live by it. So forgive us
as a people and to the nation, who have fallen
short of the ideals that we claire. But we ask
of God that had forgiving us, that you would inspire
us as a people as a nation to keep pushing
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and living by those ideas, holding them up as a standard.
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Flipperty and justice for all, Oh God, even as we
pregn for you this week, for our nation and for
our society, we are aware that what we ask you
to bless us and strengthen us as a nation. We
know that you love all nations, and.
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That while we have a special home here and love
of the ideals that we live by or seem to
live by, that your grace is in all nations of
this world. Remind us that in having pride for our
country should not diminish the love you have for other nations.
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And the number one nation can embody your will for
this earth.
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So as we celebrate our nation's family, help us to
also live in humility.
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That you love all.
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Peoples and call us call our nation to work in
peace and liberty and freedom for all peoples of the world,
not just for ourselves.
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We ask for God, in the comings or goings of
this holiday, that you will keep us safe on the
roads and in disguise and all the ways that.
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People travel on these holidays.
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If we are apart from family, help us to connect
with them until we return together again. For those of
our congregation that celebrate the holiday recovering from surgery or
in hospitals, or recovery censors or rehabilitation places. We ask
that you would strengthen their lives, help us to connect
with them in this time of health concerns. All these
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things are God being lived up to.
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You, asking to you would guide us as a people,
as a church, and as your disciples in Christ.
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Jesus be praying, Amen, Amen, Our inn.
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Scripture passes this morning comes from the prophet Isaiah in
the fortieth chapter.
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Will be reading verses twenty eight through thirty one.
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Have you not known? Have you not heard?
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The Lord?
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Is he ever lasting God, the creator of beins of word.
He does not grow faith or grow weary. His understanding
is unsearchable. He gives power to the.
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Faith and strengthens the powerless. Even yous will fail and
be weary, and the young will fall exalted exhausted. But
those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall
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run and not be weary. They shall walk and not fame.
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Do.
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The words of the second prop.
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Of Isaida are some of the those beautiful scripture handled
primarily relies on this pod throughout the first and second
sections of the Messiah, and only shifts to all new
Testament readings in the third and final Resurrection section. This
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chapter in Isaiah chapter forty was his favorite, and he
frequently uses it in that famous oratorio. This beautifully written
chapter concludes with the words we read earlier in worship.
The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the
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ends of the earth. He does not faint for ro weary,
and its understanding is unsearchable.
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He gives power to the faith and strengthens the powerless.
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Even us will faint and be weary, and the young
will fall exhausted.
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But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall about up with wings like eagles.
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They shall not and not be weary. They shall walk
and not faint. You know, we know almost nothing about
this prophet, this poet who has the audacity to add
to the scroll of of the Isaiah.
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Of this there is no doubt. The ratual Isaiah.
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Live and serve as a prophet in Jerusalem in the
decades around seven hundred BC. His work ends with chapter
thirty nine, roughly two hundred years later. This anonymous prophet
as new prophecies written.
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In the tradition rab and of appreciation.
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For Isaiah, beginning with chapter forty, so it's possibly abound
five hundred BC, give or take a few decades. When
this prophet speaks, Jewish exiles had been living in Bamalog
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seventy five, one hundred years. They were now under the
third or fourth generation of living in this foreign land.
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The poet was one of these anxiles.
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Only the oldest of peoples could remember what Jerusalem looked like.
They had been forced to live as refugees for some law.
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For most of the people to that.
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And Jerusalem were just simply in their imaginations. They had
grown weary of waiting, tired of triumph, faint for a
future that never arrived.
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This moment breaks forth a new song, a new polacy.
This posy, who.
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Lived his entire life as a refugee as of exile,
speaks of a resiliency.
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That God provides the.
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Weary, the tired, and the faiths.
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We just celebrated the two hundred and forty eight anniversary
of our nation's founding.
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On Thursday July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
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Fifty six men side the Declaration of Independence as great
representatives of the thirteen British colonies. The declaration is full
of ideals for creating a new independent nation, along with
a list of reasons for why the colonies were declaring
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themselves separate from England. While we speak of July fourth,
seventeen seventy six as the birth of our nation, the
Declaration and the Constitution of mill Andie that followed the
Revolutionary War speak to ideals that have been forming for
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well over a century in this land.
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The men who wrote and signed this document.
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Spoke of the equality of all people, of the ideals
of providing liberty and justice for all, so that all.
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May pursue their own happiness. They provided a structure by
which that we might create a.
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Never about a republic that would be guided by the
right to vote and the rule of law.
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We've heard many of.
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These ideals as Susannah and Donna and Spencer read the
words of Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln and
Martin lu King Junior. We also heard how it has
taken many these two hundred and forty eight years to
realize those ideals, and some had yet to be fully realized.
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And after Volla the resiliency, it took for generations of
enslaved persons to survive.
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And to maintain their.
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Dignity against insurmountable odds with which they faced until they.
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Finally gained their freedom. Or of the women of this
nation who had to first fight for the right to vote,
to protest, to march, to argue.
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To debate it, and then the decades of the twentieth
century to find.
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A gain evil rights with men in this nation, or
of black.
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Citizens after fighting for their freedom, then persevere through decades
of gim cronologus red lighting of the neighborhoods after fighting
for this station in World War Two, to return and
be denied the GI support GI bill support that went
to white soldiers but for the most part was not
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given to black soldiers, or waiting.
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For loans for the faja, which did not come.
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To black families but only to white families to bill
up their beginning.
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I think of the.
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Resiliency that has.
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Taken persons to keep fighting for what we said as
a nation.
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We declared for all in seventeen seventy six.
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Part of the King Junior Black to quart of phrase
that was first stated by a passion of the nineteenth century.
The part of the moral universe is law, but it
bends towards justice, resiliency. It is at the heart of
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this experiment in democracy that we have been practicing as.
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A nation for two hundred and forty eight years. Liberty
and justice for all remains and I here we're structing for.
But it will only be realized.
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If we continue to cultimate resiliency.
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To be added, and keep added, and keep add it.
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So how do we cultivate resiliency at these prosperous times
when it's so easy just to quick and start something
new when we don't like how things are going. There
are several habits that I could go on that you
can read about in any number of self help books,
but I want to mention two now, and then we
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want two more important factors are probably not in a
self help books.
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Developing a clear sense of direction.
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Of purpose of a goal that you want to achieve
is one of those things that you could read about
in any good self help book.
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It's easy in our lives to realize what most people
want a job, to make some money, companionship or vollume love,
time to enjoy life to some extent or another.
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But without a clear.
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Sense of direction or a sense of purpose, it is
far too easy for those things to be realized, but
then in an aimless journey to start and stop over
and over again, one job after another, one relationship after another.
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One fun event that we go to, and then we
move on to something else. Life will push and pull
you around like a vote without a letter, until you'd
either find or determine a guiding principle for your life.
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Working at determination in another habit that would help you
to build a resiliency.
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Gord McDonald in his book of Resilient Life, speaks about
the experience he had as a track athlete when he
was recruited and signed at the University of Colorado.
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He arrived that fall and was paired with Bill to Me,
who would later go on to burn a gold medal
into the Catlaw at the Olympics. At first, both of these.
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Athletes, as freshmen, would one of the times pretty closely
to the pushing and pushing one another on the track.
But McDonald talks about his own experience that when practice
was over, to conceive that his coach had given them
he was ready to shower and to get dressed and
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go do something fun on canvas.
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He was, after all a college rushman.
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But to me, you know, would stick a rout, go
back out to the track by himself and run through
every workout that their coach had put them through for
the past hour to two hours. By the end of
the semester, Gordon McDonnell said he never been to me again.
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By the end of the year, there was a significant.
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Gap between the two. Both men young them were talented.
That was not the difficulty. Determination was the difference.
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To me was simply the poor determined, and they provided
a resimbiency.
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For him that turned him into a gold medal Olympic.
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After you can go on and google resiliency and meet
about other habits.
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That will help you cultivate it.
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But these two are that which most things derived from
a sense of direction and to fortify your determination. There
are two practices, however, that are more informed than all
these techniques you could read about in a vooting or
listen to in a podcast.
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Scott Peck in his classic.
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Book of a Generation Ago, The Road Best Travel, began
with a simple sentence, life is difficult.
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That sentiment is repeated.
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Numerous times in a book that came out last year
titled The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Mark Charles,
which is a narrative of an.
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A six year Harvard studies.
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Of over a thousand people, and tho the sentence is
writing down the longest continuing study of human lives. Their
subjects then things like finding World War II, the Korean
and Vietnam wars than the police wars of the past
fourth century.
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They've dealt with cancer, with strokes, with heart attacks, with
the depths of ho the wives.
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They've dealt with addiction and depression, and unemployment and retirement.
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And any other challenge that we can meet in life.
This study, which began in nineteen.
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Thirty eight in Boston, has categorized what has helped people
to thrive in life, what has helped them to overcome
great challenges, and what decisions end up getting them.
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Laws in mind.
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The good life tells wonderful stories about how life can
be beaten and joyous.
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And how sooner or later, every one of us are
going to face real challenges.
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This eighty six year Harvard study has about one single.
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Clear and overwhelming factor that builds.
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Resiliency and revives meaning and joy in our lives. Kiddy,
guess what it is for share? It's relationships.
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It's relationships, It's the people together in this congregation right
now in the sanctuary. The best way to cultivate relationships
is resiliency is through our relationships. Nothing else close comes
close in the study to providing meeting and joy and
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be ciliency that.
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It takes to live this life, which is difficult. Once
the Harvard study had enough subjects that had lived a
healthy and happy lives went.
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Into their ages, they were able to go back in
time because they had all this all this information from
all these interviews every couple of years, from all these objects,
all this information, they went back to see if there
was any commonality between all those people who weren't healthy
and happy in their ages. Was there something back in
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time that could tell the rest of us who are
living now, what might help us to live a full life.
It wasn't how well their cholesterol levels.
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Were doing in middle age.
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It wasn't how rich their MAK accounts were in middle age.
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The people who.
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Were most satisfied with the relationships at age fifty were
the healthiest mentally and physically at age eighty. That's worth repeating.
Those who are most satisfied with their relationships at age
fifty were the healthiest mentally and physically at age eighty
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and the type of relationships it doesn't really matter how
they are. Wonderful spouse, yes, makes it rmous difference. But
a person who lives a looking but who has great
friendships or wonderful colleagues at work, whose relationships go beyond
nine to five are who has deep family relationships with children, siblings.
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And cousins.
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Even the casual relationships that we often don't think of
make a positive impact.
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The Marisa who you chat with every.
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Morning as you get coffee, and you see this person
over and over and over again before you go to boss,
or any other person.
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That has these casual interactions. These two make a difference
in our lives.
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When we advent in our lives and others people will.
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We develop relationships.
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Of all times, we are cultivating the most powerful force
of resiliency in human nature. The old clichet is true,
relationships double our jewelry, and they cut our pain and half. Loneliness, however,
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is more pervasive in our society than it has ever
been before, so much so that loneliness is now considered
a health risk. I'll think, some of you haven't been
to the doctor and you've met an ass are you
saving home?
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Are you loneliness?
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Questions along that line, because now they're realizing loneliness is
a killer. In fact, the only activity you can do
that's more dangerous than loneliness is smoking cigarettous.
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So I guess maybe if you like to smoke, you
need to go outside and do it with the people,
or build pressures, and they can't be that out of
my bis.
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I do not think it is equizens that at the
same time that our society is experiencing.
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Loneliness the most ever has.
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May also be the most divided and angry it has
been since the Civil War.
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Lonely people are not resilient. They look for a quick fire,
which is pervasive in our culture. They don't have people
of trust.
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They are suspicious of others and quickly blame others for
their problems. We think we often talk about and we
have a political problem or immigracial problem or a racial problem.
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In our country, where may what we really have is
simply a loveliness problem. We're not working on our.
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Relationships that build within us, resiliency and hope and bigger
and promise, cultivating relationships, working and building all those of
friendships and contacts of those who are all around us
are the best way to build and cultivate resiliency within
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our lives, within the fellowship of our church, and for
our nation. And one of those relationships that cultivates resiliency.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Is a relationship that we can have with God. This
is what the prophet Isaiah was claiming this prophecy at
the end of chapter forty as he began.
Speaker 10 (42:14):
This new section in the prophets Isaiah's stroll, this gain,
this new song to sing. Isaiah had lived a life
where he had been prompressed by all of them others
who had conquered his homeland.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
He was an exile or refugee.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
He had either lost.
Speaker 10 (42:30):
Everything or was a child of parents who had lost everything,
and somewhere God's word gave him a vision of hope
that we realized through resiliency. He speaks of how even
the young girl weary, and they seem have an endless energy,
(42:51):
but even they become.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Weary and grow tired and fatigue.
Speaker 10 (42:56):
But he concluded by saying, those who wait for the
bard shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with
wings like eagles. They shall run, I'll be weary, they
shall walk and knock fad. The phrase waiting for the
Board is said a couple dozen times, do out the
(43:16):
Bible all the a New Testaments, about half of those
have our heart are into songs, which are prayers.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Waiting for the Lord begins with an attitude of prayer.
By that I mean this, we do all we can do.
Speaker 10 (43:41):
Then we place our lives and whatever is happening in
our life into the hands of the Board, into the
God that we trustle This doesn't mean that everything's going
to work.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Out be successful, but it means that.
Speaker 10 (43:59):
We will trust God God to get us through whatever
we are facing. This says of being committed to doing
what we can, but leading the outcome to God provides
us with an inner strength because.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
It keeps us focused on what we can control.
Speaker 12 (44:22):
We focus on what we can do, what we can control,
and then we let the outcome go to God. We
don't worry about it, We give it to God.
Speaker 10 (44:37):
Waiting on the Lord is an affirmation that we are
created in God's image and love by God. We can
wait on the Lord because we believe that God has
made us with a purpose for something in our lives
and that we are.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Loved by God as we are.
Speaker 10 (44:54):
We're Nae Brown, the Great researcher about shame and vulnerability
today says that one of us will resipient so that
we can cultivate is.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
That we are good enough.
Speaker 7 (45:06):
Everyone.
Speaker 10 (45:09):
We're good enough as God created us, despite all the
way to get judgments world on the job, about our bodies,
in school, on social media. If we realize and truly
believe that we are good enough, created love by God,
we gain a stame power through all the challenges we face.
Speaker 14 (45:31):
This country has ideals worth struggling for, striving for pure
life has meaning and purpose for which God created you.
Speaker 10 (45:47):
Let us cultivate resiliency to give us the stamina to
finish what God has started.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Those who wait for the lords chap their strange. They
shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run
and not be reading. They shall want a non family
a man.
Speaker 10 (46:13):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
That is at a bachelor's tradition. We am our worship
service with the invitation and a commitment can and we
advite you to.
Speaker 10 (46:23):
Maybe you're not a Christian, but you want to follow
Jesus Christ to be baptized and disciple, or maybe have
been a Christian for many years but you're looking for
a church home.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
We would gladly receive you into our church family. Whatever
decision that you have, we say about the community table where.
Speaker 10 (46:38):
We stand together and seeing Anon God O Baba staying together.
Speaker 7 (46:43):
And say.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
So since so, say.
Speaker 7 (47:58):
S S S.
Speaker 10 (48:29):
S S.
Speaker 15 (48:43):
Since, But I's got to re see it for a moment.
Speaker 7 (49:29):
I forgot to assist the.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Case.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
Alright, that's it. I'll manage a couple of things. So
I do when apprist all those who can't make.
Speaker 10 (49:43):
Worship hiding for us to day beginning with a chucker
in life and make sure that we've got sound and
progression and everything kind of works together. So I really
appreciate them kind of behind the scenes and doing all
those things for us.
Speaker 3 (49:56):
For when and for Ben, thank you all for leading
us and worship with.
Speaker 10 (49:58):
Prayer and first you and and Spencer, thank you all
for leading us with those readings that reminded us as
a nation.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
And for Brett, Thank you Dolly.
Speaker 7 (50:08):
For Alex.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
So coming before us today is Alex gold m. Alex
would like to join our congregation, would be part of
this membership.
Speaker 16 (50:25):
And he has becoming in this community, has been through
recovery program and came to know this congregation because of
those folks from our congregation who have gone in the
past or recovery point and have had that opportunity to
just interact with them.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
And so he was like, Yeah, I wanna see what
this church is am at me, and you wanna keep
on coming back.
Speaker 10 (50:43):
So if you joined me and we from Alex as
a member of his our congregation, would you say me man.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
And Alex w good you first to welcome you and
to ask that we require our best to make you
better Christian. We just asked you would help us and
be a good, better church. Oh my tents.
Speaker 10 (50:59):
Yeah, I'm gonna let youdcy for a moment, uh right,
and then after the min addiction, if you'll come back
up here and to stand here, I'll ask everybody else
to come forward and just read alls and welcome him
enter my congregation.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
Uh. I'm gonna mention one other thing to you that
I need to uh sh is information you need to
share with you all. Uh So Uh, I have a
class A cancer and I'm gonna have to have surgery
uh near the end of August, and think of work
with the staff well.
Speaker 10 (51:26):
And have things plotted out that while I'll be away
for a couple of Sundays, all the things.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
That we are planned for.
Speaker 10 (51:32):
This small ship would go continue on, but I will
come your prayers as I get nearer to that event,
So you'll notice I'm gonna be gone a couple of
weeks at the end of August, so I'll be hopefully
recovering quickly from that.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
That's all there is a think about that thing.
Speaker 10 (51:48):
Yeah, and understanding of your prayers, list stand together and
never see gonna take you know everything, m friends, As
would go back out into the world, do justice, love, kindness,
(52:08):
and while comely with God.
Speaker 3 (52:11):
And as you go, know that the creator of.
Speaker 10 (52:14):
The universe has already prepared away for you and Jesus
the Christ walks beside you every step of the way,
and God's love the Holy Spirit will surround you and
protect you and guide you through all the tuil faces leaving.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
So friends, go in God's peace. Amen.
Speaker 7 (52:33):
A man who was a friends man
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