WEBVTT 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:19.000 But yeah, but we thought we'd do something different, something a little bit out of the ordinary, but hopefully cool. 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:29.000 >> Yeah, and instead of just like a regular assignment, especially when we were talking about, we wanted to make this more of a conversation. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:40.000 And so again, when I actually met up with this week, we talked through a lot of them a couple of times, and we both shared our stories. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:45.000 And we really didn't wear all those obstacles, we were just talking. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:56.000 And we didn't do that to pan out this exactly, but what I think we discovered is that this was beyond our individual experience. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.000 So I thought both were together, too. 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:04.000 We didn't want this to be a center on one person's experience as well. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:13.000 Because the use of unity and doing life with everyone here is that experiences that are run together with women 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:18.000 are far greater than we wanted to experience. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:25.000 And this year after our talk, we know that we've been talking about all of the ones that we've done that. 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:33.000 [INAUDIBLE] 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.000 >> It is an awe-inspiring thing to have made it nine years. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.000 >> It is an awe-inspiring thing. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:57.000 So, in order to do that, I'm going to say that we're not going to do that. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:08.000 So, in order to do that, I'm going to say that we're not going to do that. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:15.000 So, in order to do that, we're not going to do that. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:23.000 So, in order to do that, we're not going to do that. 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:28.000 So, in order to do that, we're not going to do that. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:44.000 [INAUDIBLE] 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:49.000 >> To help bring that, we've been talking a lot about all of them. 00:02:49.000 --> 00:03:00.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking a lot about them. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking a lot about them. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:10.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:18.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:21.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:26.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:32.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:40.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:47.000 So, in order to do that, we've been talking about them. 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.000 >> Yeah. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:53.000 That is, I think, our natural thought is, like, at the Grand Canyon. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.000 That's always, like, the overused example, right? 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:00.000 But I think building on what Chad was talking about last week, 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:05.000 when we can kind of slow down and just make space, 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.000 like in our minds and in our schedules and things like that, 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.000 we can find all, like, in smaller places, too. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.000 And I think that's part of the challenge. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.000 But it's also a little bit reassuring, maybe, or encouraging to know, 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.000 I don't have to, like, take a vacation or, like, 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.000 go to outer space to experience awe. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:31.000 Like, you can find these, like, in the everyday. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:37.000 I guess it's inevitable that I'm going to use my daughter as an example in things. 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.000 But, so, Grace, she's 18 months now, 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:47.000 and she is absolutely obsessed with helicopters. 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.000 She calls them hub-bub-bub. 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.000 And where we live, just a few blocks away, 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.000 like, there's helicopters that'll fly around downtown, 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.000 you know, the sightseeing helicopters, 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.000 and sometimes helicopters that are going to and from the hospital. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.000 But, so, I mean, we'll be just, like, eating dinner or something, 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.000 and she'll hear it. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.000 The girl has good ears, because she will hear it, 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.000 and she just like stops, and she looks at me and goes, 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.000 hub-bub-bub! 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:17.000 And she'll raise her hands, because she wants me to pick her up and run 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:24.000 out onto the balcony so we can, like, look across the sky to try to find the helicopter. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.000 And then, like, on one end of the balcony, 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.000 and then we run to the other end of the balcony to follow it as it goes along. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.000 But she just loves helicopters. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.000 And it's like, oh, she's finding awe. 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:42.000 And I mean, yeah, helicopters are cool, that things can fly as cool. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:47.000 But she's finding awe in something that I take for granted a lot of times. 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:52.000 And then another instance with Grace that I've noticed is, like, I can mention, 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:56.000 she's 18 months old, she's learning to eat with utensils. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:00.000 And I'm going to be honest, she's not good at it right now. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.000 And so, this often ends up kind of messy, 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.000 and I'm at home with her a lot, and so I'm going to have to clean this up. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.000 And that can really, like, frustrate me. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:18.000 And I'll just, I want to do it myself and just be like, hey, let's just eat 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.000 and get it over with. 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.000 But, you know, like, that's a, I know that I need to work on that. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.000 I know God is working on me through Grace. 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:33.000 But, but, when I am able to stop and think about it, 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:42.000 she's got all these fresh baby neurons that are forming and, like, coming together 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.000 and making all these connections. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:49.000 And so, she's, as she's picking up a fork and, like, thinking about how to grip it 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.000 and then, you know, stab the eggs or whatever it is. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.000 And then, angle that, like, raise that the right amount to go into her mouth. 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:06.000 There's just a lot happening in such a small thing as eating. 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.000 And that's amazing. 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:14.000 Like, there's something really, I mean, we can understand it all we want, 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.000 but it still feels pretty miraculous that all that is happening. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:24.000 And it's happening just in this tiny little package of a human who's, you know, 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.000 making a mess at the end of my table. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.000 But, this is an opportunity. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:35.000 Again, if I can, like, think about it, pause and think about it 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.000 and let myself experience this. 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:38.000 Oh, that's just right there. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:39.000 And it's there. 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.000 It is there every day. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:48.000 But, you know, like, think about, you hear the statistic about how many, like, bacteria 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.000 and virus and fungi are in your stomach, are in your guts. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:53.000 And it's, like, trillions. 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:54.000 Like, trillions. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:00.000 There's, like, as many organisms in your digestive tract as there are cells in your body. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:07.000 So it's like you're as much bacteria as you are human cells. 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.000 Like, it's fascinating. 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.000 Like, that's weird. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.000 That's really weird to think about. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.000 But it's amazing that that's happening. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.000 And, you know, you think about, like, the way cells are held together. 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.000 And it just keeps going, you know? 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:24.000 I mean, it's incredible. 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:29.000 It's just, like, these fractal kind of patterns of awe in the universe. 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:36.000 Like, to paraphrase the quote, like, it feels like it's wonder all the way down. 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.000 But we have to pause, like, we learned last week. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.000 And then we have to, like, tune our awareness to it. 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.000 And that can be a challenge, for sure. 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.000 But it feels like the invitation's there. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:49.000 Does that make sense? 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.000 Right. 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:55.000 On that example, another way to talk about when I'm talking. 00:08:55.000 --> 00:09:00.000 I know that scrolling on your phone so maybe I get the bad rap. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:04.000 For a good reason, how to learn, like, there's something you can talk about. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:08.000 Like, it can be hard in your heart. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.000 So, well, there's something around it that you can work on. 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:19.000 But I think that you're talking about whether you talk too much and why you always do it. 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:26.000 Not because of the reason you're doing it, but because you're kind of talking to me, too. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:34.000 And I am having, I was looking at something so far from somebody that is a natural. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:38.000 You have hands to raise a bunch of money for the community. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:52.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:55.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:10.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:23.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:30.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:39.000 And then you have a lot of money for the community. 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.000 Yeah, that's an interesting way to think about it. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.000 That it's like kind of grabbing. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:49.000 And we wanted to open the floor a little bit here. 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:53.000 Like what moments have done that to you? 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:59.000 Like what kinds of things have you seen like that interrupt your life? 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:03.000 Can you think of, does anything come to mind when we talk about that? 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.000 Are you here, Brittany's story? 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:10.000 Yeah, there's not a bad answer. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:39.000 Okay. 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:46.000 Yeah. 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:16.000 Yeah, that's awesome. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:24.000 Yeah, that's awesome. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:50.000 Yeah, that's awesome. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:13:00.000 Yeah. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:02.000 Can be unexpected. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:11.000 One of the very, very back. 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:37.000 Okay. 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.000 Yeah, that's awesome. 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:45.000 Yeah, I know we're going to talk in the next few weeks kind of about what to do with these moments. 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:52.000 Because yeah, what do you do with crying in a JV Mariachi classroom? 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:57.000 But yeah, anything else? 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:26.000 Yeah. 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.000 Yeah. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:36.000 Frank Sinatra. 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:44.000 Yeah, yeah. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.000 Yeah. 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:52.000 Yeah, the Holy Spirit can speak through all blue eyes too. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.000 Yeah, that's cool. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:00.000 Yeah, so I love these examples because there's a variety of them. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.000 Some, it's just kind of nature and spontaneous. 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.000 A lot of it's relationship based. 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:12.000 And I love that even like kind of internal can be a source of awe. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:20.000 In the Bible, we see a couple, there's a couple stories from the stories about Jesus that kind of point to this a little bit. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:23.000 Chad kind of planted these ideas. 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:28.000 It was like, oh, I've never thought about that angle on these stories before. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.000 But we'll just talk about a couple of them real quick. 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.000 So the first one is the story. 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:37.000 It's known kind of as the widows might, the story of the widows might. 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:38.000 You may know it. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.000 But it's a really, it's a pretty short story. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.000 We find it in the Gospel of Luke. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.000 And at this point, Jesus is in Jerusalem. 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:52.000 It's getting kind of close to the end of his ministry before he gets arrested. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:57.000 He's crucified by the religious leaders and the government there. 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:58.000 That's just a few days away. 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.000 And so here he's teaching a lot as he did throughout his ministry about the kingdom of God. 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:11.000 And talking about the way in which things are very different in the kingdom of God. 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:17.000 And so he's at the temple and sees this, sees this. 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:22.000 And so we find it in chapter 21, it's verses one through four, where it says, 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:27.000 "He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:31.000 He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:36.000 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:41.000 All of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.000 has put in all she had to live on." 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.000 It's a short little story. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.000 And it works, I think it works on a few levels. 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:55.000 So, you know, obviously we can, I feel like maybe we've heard this as kind of 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:00.000 praising the widow for her genuine sacrificial generosity, 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:06.000 contrasting that with kind of the performative sacrifice less, 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:10.000 giving that the rich people did in the story. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:16.000 I've heard it kind of like abused because people, sometimes people say like, 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:23.000 "See, you have to give everything to the church to be blessed." 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:30.000 And so it can get kind of misused, I think, in that situation. 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:34.000 But for our purposes and our conversation, I think it's interesting 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.000 to the fact that Jesus sees this at all. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:42.000 So, he's in the temple, there's lots of people milling about, 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:47.000 and obviously there were many rich people getting up and putting their gifts into the treasury. 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:57.000 But Jesus kind of focuses in on this poor woman that he sees her. 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:07.000 That's what he notices because he's tuned to the real moments, right? 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:21.000 Like these moments of, I guess, of genuineness sees her faith, sees her passion for the people of God 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.000 and focuses in on that. 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:27.000 Even though it wasn't showy, it wasn't flashy. 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:36.000 But that's what Jesus sees and calls out and kind of lifts up as awe-inspiring. 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.000 There's another story. 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:45.000 It's a couple of places in the gospels, but we're going to look at it in Mark. 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.000 So it's also in Matthew, and then Luke tells us a little bit of a different version. 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.000 But in Mark chapter 10, we see the story. 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.000 So again, Jesus is traveling around. 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:01.000 He's going between Jerusalem and Jericho, and then he finishes in Jericho and he's on his way back. 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:06.000 He's talking still in the passages around Mark. He's talking a lot about the kingdom of God. 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:10.000 He's done the whole "Let the little children come to me" thing. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:14.000 Children were, had zero rights, zero status. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:23.000 But Jesus says, "These are important people," and said, "For such as these, the kingdom of God belongs." 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:30.000 He's done the whole "It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:39.000 He's even chastised his own disciples because they were fighting for status, a place of status, in his kingdom. 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:45.000 And he tells them, "Whoever wants to be first among you must become slave of everyone." 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:51.000 So he's leaving Jericho, and then that's where the story happens. 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:59.000 So it says, "They came to Jericho as he and his disciples, and a large cloud were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:02.000 a blind beggar was sitting by the roadside." 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:08.000 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me." 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:15.000 Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, "Son of David, have mercy on me." 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:21.000 Jesus stood still and said, "Call him here." And they called to the blind man, saying, "Take heart, go up, he's calling to you." 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.000 So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:30.000 Then Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "My teacher, let me see again." 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.000 Jesus said to him, "Go, your faith has made you well." 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:37.000 Immediately, he regained his sight and followed him on the way. 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:43.000 So the story, again, there's a number of things we can see happening here. 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:52.000 There's this idea that Jesus is not bothered by someone who's coming to him with desperation and in desperate faith. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.000 That doesn't offend Jesus or it's not too much. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:05.000 We also see Jesus doesn't ask for anything. He doesn't demand that the person change or do anything to deserve his blessing. 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:12.000 I think those are all good, but again, we're going to look at the fact that Jesus saw him anyway. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:20.000 There's a big crowd. They're all going around. The guy was calling out, but he doesn't have any right to try to talk to. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:33.000 This preacher that's going around the countryside, but Jesus, he's like stops on his journey and he ignores the loud, 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:43.000 the very insistent, repressive crowd and instead decides to engage with Bartimaeus, who Jesus is turning his attention 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:50.000 to the lowest, most powerless, most overlooked members of his society. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:22:01.000 Instead of Jesus passing by, Jesus decides he's going to stop and he's going to enter into this sacred holy moment. 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:09.000 I think that's kind of what we're talking about when we're talking about noticing awe. 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:19.000 What can I talk about when we're talking about people's stories and that kind of thing is so consistent in Jesus' character in a way that he is living out of his life. 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:28.000 It's that he's going to do better and rush on his own. 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:37.000 We know that there is a reason why we want to live in Jesus' family to everyone else, that there is a connection. 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:42.000 And Jesus is coming and having a spirit. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:47.000 He has a spirit in Jesus' spirit. 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:54.000 Not because of the moment that he's being created by Jesus, but because of his resurrection. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:23:03.000 And I think that he's working because of the fact that he's always so powerful and think of matters as obvious as he is. 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:13.000 Well, I think all of you have to know that it's a very nice family, a bit honest with you. 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:22.000 So I want to talk to you a little bit about what you do when you live with a Holy Spirit. 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:27.000 And I think it works a lot of things like talking to you. 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:35.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:40.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:47.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:59.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:23.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:30.000 Oh, like Ridge is the Lost Ark? Oh, okay. Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones. Everyone. 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:43.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:46.000 Yeah, yeah, we got that. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:25:00.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:29.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:44.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:25:44.000 --> 00:26:12.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:40.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:26:40.000 --> 00:27:05.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:33.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:27:33.000 --> 00:28:01.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:29.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:54.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:28:54.000 --> 00:29:20.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:49.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:29:49.000 --> 00:30:17.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:44.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:30:44.000 --> 00:31:02.000 [ Inaudible ] 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:11.000 Yeah, yeah, it's participation, it's holy, and that is awe-inspiring. 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:22.000 It's almost, you feel like a number of the things we've talked about and given it as examples of awe, like even imagination. 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:35.000 It's like it's always there. We just have to see it, have to maybe shift our perspective a little bit to let it in. 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:46.000 I think that's so cool. That reminds me, that makes me think about God's presence. 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:56.000 We think of God as being everywhere all at once, like the fancy word is omnipresent, that we can't actually be far from God. 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:05.000 The Psalmist talks about this, Paul talks about it, right? But we can feel far from God. 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:16.000 I know when I'm stressed about work or stressed about the health of a loved one or the general state of the world, 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:28.000 it can feel like God's kind of far away. Maybe when I've been on a self-destructive path or been giving in to those really negative patterns, things like that, 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:37.000 I can feel like God is really far away. But I think that it's different than that in reality. 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:51.000 I think that God is really just like a moment away, that just like just a small shift in my understanding, my awareness, 00:32:51.000 --> 00:33:03.000 even a lot of times just remembering the fact that God is there, that I'm not alone and that God is always right there. 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:12.000 And I think that awe, wonder, which maybe we're just talking about a piece of God themselves, right? 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:23.000 That it's kind of the same thing. Whether we're looking in nature, whether it's on our social media feed or the kid throwing food, 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:33.000 that maybe it's our neighbor, maybe it's our enemy, that awe is right there. God's presence is right there. 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:43.000 And similarly, that awe can be right there. We just have to kind of adjust or reorient our perspective, our minds, 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:54.000 and remember that it's right there. And so I think our challenge then is kind of to hold on to that shift, 00:33:54.000 --> 00:34:01.000 because I think it's easy to set it down in just the busyness of every day. 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:15.000 But I think as we go about this week that we can kind of take up this challenge to, let's try to remember that, try to hold on to that fact 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:24.000 that I can see awe everywhere, that God is always right there and that awe is there too. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:33.000 I know we're going to talk more about kind of what to do with this. Like, all right, cool. I found the awe now. 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:38.000 What? But I know we're going to talk about some of that and some practices. 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:45.000 And so for now, I think we're just kind of carrying on, building on the challenge of last week of resting 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:55.000 and just creating the mental and temporal space for awe. And then so we can add to that, I guess, 00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:06.000 just this subtle shift in our attention that we can now be just aware of these invitations to wonder. 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:16.000 And just that's all around us. 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:46.000 [inaudible] 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:53.000 And awe is what is interrupting the wrong way. 00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:58.000 And in many months, just in many months, I've said that I did, or totally, 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:08.000 it doesn't mean that that moment of my presence is what gives it that kind of ability to have a better way. 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:09.000 [laughter] 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:10.000 Sounds good. 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:32.000 [inaudible] 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:47.000 [inaudible] 00:36:47.000 --> 00:37:09.000 [inaudible] 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:28.000 [inaudible] 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:36.000 I would love to experience it through you, through what brings you to that awareness of awe. 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:46.000 What is interrupting you and stops you? What is happening in your imagination that is going to shift our reality in our future? 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:54.000 And then to recognize awe in the beauty of the faces of the people that are around you. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:38:06.000 It's just not limited to the definitions that we've given it before, because the Holy is around you, the sacred is within you. 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:16.000 And from that awareness of awe, we are invited to go love well, because that is who you are created to be. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:26.000 So, we say it every week, arsenal, go love well to you are made to be.