WEBVTT 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:38.319 Blessed be God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:40.319 Blessed be God's spirit. 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:44.879 Let's pray together. 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:53.519 Almighty God, under whom all hearts are open, all desires known, from whom no secrets are hid. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:58.799 Cleanse from the spirit of hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit. 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:06.400 That we may perfectly love you and will be magnify your holy name through Christ our Lord. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:46.800 Let us pray. 00:02:53.039 --> 00:03:06.639 Will you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving kindness through Jesus Christ our Lord and listening to the peace of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:07.599 Amen. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:09.039 Please be seated. 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.960 For I are shall all Hashbaz, meaning swiftly savaged, rapidly ravaged. 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:53.120 Then I will swear in for myself faithful witness, the priest Uriah and Zachariah and Jeberekiah. 00:03:53.840 --> 00:04:04.800 So I went to the prophetess and she conceived, and she gave birth to a child, and the fountain of wisdom said to me, May the child Marashalal Hashaz. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:17.199 For before the child knows how to call my mother, or my father, the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried off by the ruler of Assyria. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:48.079 Then again the creator of all spoke to me yet further, for because this people has refused the waters of Shiloh that flow gently and swan and resin, ruler of the Aramidians, and on account of Israel's king, Hekat, the son of Rameleiah, therefore the Holy One is bringing up over them the many mighty waters of the Euphrates river, the ruler of Assyria and all his glory. 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.879 And it shall rise above all its channels and overflow its things. 00:04:53.839 --> 00:05:06.639 And passing through Judah the flooding pouring over, it shall flow up into the neck, and its wingspan shall fill the width of your land with the man the word of the Lord. 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:55.120 The eyes of the all-seeing God are upon the righteous. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.480 The face of the righteous one is against those who do evil. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:12.879 The righteous trial and the compassionate one hearers. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:37.360 Now are we God's children, and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:27.840 Now suddenly a person from the crowd shouted, Teacher, I beg you to examine my child. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.240 This is my only child, and see here. 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:42.240 The spirit seizes the child, and immediately there is shrieking, and it shakes the child with foaming at the mouth, and it will scarcely leave the child, torturing the child. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.559 Now I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:56.720 Then Jesus responded, saying, You faithless and twisted generation, how much longer must I be with you and put up with you all? 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.639 And bring your child here. 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.759 While the child was coming, the demon threw the child to the ground in convulsions. 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:11.919 But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and returned the child to the parent, and all were amazed at the greatness of God. 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:20.320 While everyone marveled at everything Jesus was doing, Jesus said to his disciples, Let's sink into your ears these words. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:25.279 Indeed, the Son of Woman is going to be betrayed into woman-born hands. 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:34.159 But they did not understand this word, and its meaning was concealed from them, so that they could not perceive it, and they feared to ask him about this word. 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:40.960 Now, there arose a debate among them which one of them was the greatest. 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:46.639 But Jesus, knowing the debate in their hearts, took a little child and put the child next to him. 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:52.799 And Jesus said to them, Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me. 00:11:53.039 --> 00:12:00.879 And whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the least among you all is the greatest. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:03.759 The gospel of the Lord. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:13:11.360 Because I think if a child picked Jesus picked up, was well dressed, clean, and quiet, it'd be real easy to think, ah, whoever accepts a clean, well-behaved, pretty child has accepted God. 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:12.720 That would be easy. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:18.639 After all, we're mammals, and there's something in our DNA about taking care of children. 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:25.039 The reason I wonder about the story is because that isn't hard to do. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:44.639 What would be hard is if the kid was dirty and had snot coming out of its nose, and dirt under its fingernails, and was making noise, well, during the sermon, and had raggedy ripped clothes, and Jesus said, There, welcome God. 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:49.120 Because I think that'd be harder. 00:13:49.679 --> 00:14:02.320 And it makes me wonder, actually, if we shouldn't hear Jesus doing that while the child is having this epileptic seizure, if that's what it is. 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:09.120 Well, why could you ever see God in an epileptic seizure? 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:14.080 Well, because there's a God present with us wherever we go. 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:18.799 I mean, it's either yes or no. 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:31.600 And if the answer's yes, and we can't see it, then it must be our fault, and not God's. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.320 I'm at fault most of the day. 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:36.320 And most of the night. 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:52.639 And I'm just going to tell you, I hope you didn't grow up like I did with a church that taught you that epilepsy comes from a demon like the red thing with the tail and the fork. 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.320 I did grow up hearing that. 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:58.720 Which means if you have it, there's something wrong with your faith. 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.840 Because if you just believed enough, God would heal it. 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:02.960 And you wouldn't. 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.039 So it's not wrong to have epilepsy, except it's wrong. 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.000 I hope you didn't grow up that way. 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:24.000 And I hope you noticed, well, it's hard to know in English, that actually the interpreter, even today, this is really strange, uses the word demon and then uses the word unkind spirit, but they're the same word in Greek. 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:29.279 So I don't know why she picked to do it one way and then the other. 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:39.279 Because I actually think it makes it hard to resist a reading where sick people earned it or deserved it. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:42.960 But they did it and they don't. 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.559 Like our common sense and our reason tells us that. 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:48.320 So does our faith in God. 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:54.159 Why would God punish you with epilepsy when you're an infant? 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.000 That's nonsense. 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.320 I hope we can agree on that. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.600 And it makes me wonder then, why Jesus is disgusted at the crowd. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.879 Did you notice? 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:09.120 The dad says, your people couldn't help him. 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.120 My only kid. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:12.159 They couldn't help him. 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.799 And Jesus says, Well, I don't have to live with you. 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.879 He doesn't say, I'll try my hand at it. 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:22.000 Wow, isn't that interesting? 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:23.600 Jesus wasn't always polite. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:25.759 Like he's really put out in the story. 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:32.639 He even says, You twisted and perverse generation, how long do I have to live with you? 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:34.159 Wow. 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.840 And I just thought Southern Women said stuff like that. 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:39.279 I'm kidding, I'm kidding. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.039 Wow, like what a backsided thing to say. 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:49.279 And this comes out of the Lord's mouth, you know, and it makes you wonder, I mean, what's going on? 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:54.320 Well, it makes me wonder, at least, what's going on. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:16.000 And, like I said, if you grew up in a church that taught you that it's the kids' fault or the dad's fault because of their lack of faith in the Lord, they don't know, it would be really confusing, wouldn't it? 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:17.519 But we learned that. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:19.599 I learned that on the flannel board. 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:26.480 And I learned that gut schizophrenia is probably a demon, too. 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.880 It turns out that that's not the case. 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:48.640 Like Einstein's demon led him to E equals MC squared. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:55.119 In Socrates' demon, whispered in his ear the right question to ask. 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:56.880 That was the Socratic method. 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.480 It was his gift of brilliance, was his demon. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.200 And it lived on his shoulder and told him what to say. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.160 The New Testament doesn't use the word that way. 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:22.160 The New Testament says that a demon is a force that is somehow metaphysical, like it's greater than any one human being can control, and it is always opposed to God. 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:31.920 You might be tempted to think that the demon is sickness in the story, because after all, the kid appears to have epilepsy. 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.279 But I'd invite you to reconsider that. 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:45.680 I would tell you, one of the most demonic things I've ever seen is a rally, and I've only seen it on tape from Nuremberg in 1936. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:19:00.400 I don't know if you've seen this footage, but it involves like thousands of German people with torches, and it involves people in like probably the best designed military uniforms I've ever seen, all marching in sync. 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:02.160 Lock step. 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:12.319 If you don't find it compelling, I don't know what's different about you, it was designed to be psychologically compelling. 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.000 If you watch a Nazi rally, it is powerful. 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.119 Because Goebbels made it so. 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.519 It's meant to tap into awe and wonder. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:32.079 It just does it at other people's expense, which is why it would be what the New Testament calls demonic. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:36.720 Because it costs somebody else. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:38.880 That's demonic. 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:42.160 Mob mentality is metaphysical. 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:46.480 It is greater than one person's ability to control or overcome. 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:53.119 So when the New Testament uses words like demon, it's not talking about you've blown out your ACL. 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:54.559 You did that. 00:19:55.359 --> 00:20:02.720 Demonic things are racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.160 Do I need to continue? 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:15.359 Those are things that are greater than any one person's ability to control, and they come at the expense of innocent others. 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.000 That's demonic. 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.319 So what's demonic in the story? 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:25.680 Not that the kid has epilepsy, that the disciples think he's broken. 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.519 They're sure he's broke. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:31.200 So what do they do? 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:33.839 They want to fix it. 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:36.559 Don't you want to fix it too? 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:38.799 I do. 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:42.400 I want to fix what looks like a problem. 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:48.319 The dad wants to fix his son. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:54.640 Any of you grown up in a home where your dad wanted to fix you? 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:58.400 I know painfully well what that's like. 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:00.160 What's the demon? 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:01.599 It wasn't me. 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:07.440 The demon was, Dad wanted me to be something I wasn't. 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:11.599 That's demonic. 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:13.200 Why? 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:18.319 Because it destroys the dignity of God's people. 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:32.720 And maybe Jesus is put out that we look at other human beings, whether they're ill or live in Iran, and say there's something evil and wrong about them. 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:35.759 We need to fix something. 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:41.039 Maybe that's what puts Jesus out. 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:50.079 Because after all, 1 John says, and I want you to make sure you've noticed this word. 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:55.519 1 John does not say we could be called the children of God. 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:56.720 We could be. 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.759 If we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and accept that he dies. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.279 On the cross for our sins. 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:04.720 If we do that, we could be called children of God. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:13.200 First John does not say we could be called God's children if we live morally upright lives and pray in the correct posture. 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:21.279 1 John does not say we could be God's children if we give 10% of our income to the church. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.960 1 John says, do you notice the word? 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:25.759 I could. 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:28.160 We should. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:37.359 We should be called children of God, which makes me think maybe the story's out of sequence. 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.319 Maybe Jesus points the kid in the middle of a seizure and says, There's God. 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:45.359 Would you find that hard? 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:52.160 I would because I've grown up in a culture of ableism that's afraid of being sick. 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.519 I would because I think God owes me health. 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:56.400 I do. 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:58.400 I think God owes me health. 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:00.880 And I'm wrong about that, by the way. 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:03.279 God doesn't know your health. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:05.680 God doesn't know your functionality. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.599 God doesn't know your lithium. 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.119 We came up with that stuff, and it can be really helpful. 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:12.160 It can be. 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:14.000 But God doesn't owe us that. 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:17.119 No. 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:24.480 And just to further make the point, I hope you found that reading from Isaiah weird. 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:28.000 Let me make sure you understand what's happening. 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:32.640 God says right on the tablet, quick to spoil, carry off the booty. 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:45.279 And then Isaiah goes to a female prophet, presumably his wife, and they have a child, and Isaiah calls the baby, quick to spoil, carry off the booty. 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:51.200 Now I don't know if there's hyphens in there, but that's the name. 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:59.680 Now, you tell me, if somebody, if you did that, would your family say, the Lord inspired you? 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:02.319 Or would they say, you have a demon? 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:08.079 By the way, where would we put Joan of Arc today? 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:09.359 In a cycle. 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:14.960 People who have visions go in wards. 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:16.960 They don't go in pulpits. 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.039 So let's just think about that for a second. 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:27.359 We now, through the benefit of history, can say, ah, Joan had this relationship with God. 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:31.759 But if she were your sister, you would want her seeing a psychiatrist. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:37.680 So what do we really know about demons anyway? 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:39.680 How to behave like them. 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:50.640 How to behave demonically because we undress the dignity of other people because they don't eat like us, dress like us, vote like us, you name it. 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:53.519 And look, the question's gonna get called. 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:58.720 We like to think we figured all this out, but we can't even figure this out in our own country politically. 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:06.960 And boy, if you're like a global citizen, if you've read the news, I've got to tell you, my brain is really susceptible to like, I don't know, conspiracy theory. 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:14.079 Like when I hear that there's an earthquake in Iran magnitude 5, it makes me wonder: was that an earthquake or was that an explosion? 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.960 By the way, I'm not saying it's an explosion. 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:20.720 I just wonder. 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:26.160 And it makes me wonder what's wrong with those people. 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:28.559 You ever wonder what's wrong with those people? 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:30.960 With those people. 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:34.880 Do you know what's wrong with those people? 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:44.319 They democratically elected somebody in 1952, and the CIA overthrew them because we wanted the oil. 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.480 That's what's wrong with those people. 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:50.960 Why did they take Americans hostage, you know, in the late 1970s? 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:53.759 Because we thought we'd give them a Shah again. 00:25:55.440 --> 00:26:02.400 That's what's wrong with those people, is we wanted their oil and their wealth, and we didn't want to give them any money for it. 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:05.279 Now, do I think what they're doing is fair? 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:05.759 No. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.119 Am I scared? 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:09.279 Absolutely, I'm scared. 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:12.880 Because what if that was a nuclear explosion? 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.240 It actually could affect me this time. 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.640 And not just paying at the pump. 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:28.240 Paying at the pump is the smallest way of being affected when you live here, don't you think? 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:33.119 Because I've lived other places like California where gas is twice as much. 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:35.759 That's when I bought a hybrid. 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:43.359 Also because I could be environmentally sensitive, but really it's because I didn't want to pay$5 a gallon with gas. 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:47.759 Because all those taxes were demonic. 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:50.160 Because they cost me something. 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:55.839 You ever find yourself speaking about demons as things that inconvenienced you? 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:02.640 Very rarely do we say, gosh, those stairs demonic. 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:07.119 They are inconvenient, although I've heard people say it before. 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.119 My knee hurts, and these stairs are evil. 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:20.240 Man, my bunion must be a demon in my foot, or it's osteoarthritis. 00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:23.440 And it's really inconvenient because guess what? 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:27.839 I can't do everything I want without consequences all the time. 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:30.559 And that's not the definition of demonic. 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.359 That's the definition of inconvenient for me. 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.799 Does my bunion affect you negatively or adversely? 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:37.680 Not at all. 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.440 Except I wasn't here for a Sunday, and that probably was beneficial. 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:43.599 I mean, just think through this, right? 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:55.279 I wonder if this story isn't here to really push us to think about what a demon is and what it isn't. 00:27:55.839 --> 00:28:01.039 What's curious about Luke is Luke takes this story from Mark, we think. 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.119 We think Mark's the older version. 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:05.680 And in Mark, Jesus isn't all put out. 00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:10.319 And he says to the disciples, they say, why couldn't we do it, Jesus? 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:18.640 And he says, this type can only be aided through prayer. 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:27.200 Now that's really interesting because Jesus prays in Luke more than any of the other gospels combined. 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:31.680 So Luke is the prayer gospel, and Luke omits it. 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.119 It's on my mind as we could just watch this video by Richard Rohr. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:38.559 It's his idea, not mine. 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:42.000 I mean, so I'm not even going to present it as well as he does. 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:50.319 But Richard Rohr says in this video that we watched this past week, that we often think of prayer as a transaction. 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:54.480 Like I ask God for something. 00:28:54.799 --> 00:29:00.000 And sometimes I'll even offer God a thing to get what I want from God. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:02.240 Like, God, I didn't study for this test. 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:05.359 I'll begin an A and I'll become a nun when I grow up. 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:08.240 I mean, maybe you use the word monk, I don't know. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.920 But this is like a way of like partnering with God. 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:30.240 And yeah, we know God knows everything already, but God really wants to test your faith by asking you for 15 years to pray daily that your brother will no longer become, I don't know, some kind of heathen and will become a member of the Church of Christ, which you happen to belong to. 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:33.039 I did that, by the way. 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:35.039 It turns out my brother became Jewish. 00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:39.759 So I don't know if God answered my prayer or didn't. 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.920 Isn't that the interesting part? 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:45.359 I'm glad my brother's Jewish. 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:47.920 Most of the time. 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:50.160 Sometimes it's inconvenient for me. 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:53.119 Like on Saturdays when I want to call it. 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:54.880 It's inconvenient. 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:56.240 Must be demonic. 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:57.759 I mean, back to that, right? 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:04.319 Anyway, what Richard Moore says is that prayer actually isn't about a transaction at all. 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:16.000 Richard Moore says prayer doesn't even necessarily require us to say words or thinking in sentences. 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:22.720 Prayer is actually just the recognition that God is fully present in all things. 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:28.160 Even children who are dirty must not notice us who have epilepsy. 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:34.880 And that the reason that the disciples can't fix this child is because they think he's broken. 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:37.359 And that's the thing. 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:39.680 That they think he's broken. 00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:49.279 I don't know if that preaches to you, but I've got to tell you, I spend a lot of my time during the week thinking about how broken other people are. 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:53.920 Because if they weren't broken, they'd do it my way. 00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:59.279 Now, look, I mean, if I'm wrong, I'll change my opinion. 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.759 You know, like I'll I'll try to get it right, so that's not so bad. 00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:07.200 Except it isn't prayer. 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.000 Now you see, it's not prayer. 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:14.480 Actually, it's praying to myself. 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:24.799 My Mike, who aren't here, hallowed we are in St. 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.519 Thomas as it is in my minivan? 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:36.640 I get it's a little bit funny, but isn't that how you pray really at the end of the day? 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:39.759 Isn't that how you pray? 00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:47.359 God, my will be done on heaven, like you should make it happen. 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.759 I don't always understand the mystery of God. 00:31:55.200 --> 00:32:00.160 The mystery like epilepsy and schizophrenia. 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.119 I don't understand this. 00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:13.119 But I do understand that people with epilepsy and schizophrenia have no less of God's dignity than I do, and I don't have those things. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:24.400 I don't always understand how major depressive disorder can be a demon that sits on my shoulder and sometimes has wonderful things to tell me. 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:32.000 Sometimes not such a thing, but I know that's true, because I have.