00:01:24.000Softness and beauty that that song, I'm sure, might bring to many of us listening to it.
00:01:32.000That Mr. Rogers and all of the values, the good values, the fruits of the spirit, in fact, that came through him, that individual that was doing so much good.
00:01:47.000And I hope that we can practice those in our everyday, even if it's just for today.
00:01:58.000Each day at a time, work on those the kindness, the patience, the joy, the care for one another, the neighborliness.
00:02:08.000If we can just do one thing today that seems like and feels and is actually God, and is in your eyes just the one, the goodness, the thank yous, the gratitude, and the good neighborliness to one another.
00:02:24.000In your creation, God, thank you for all that you bring to our life.
00:02:29.000The listeners here today of Sunday service for my husband and for this space that we are granted by you, Jesus Christ, in order that we may speak freely, openly, and always.
00:02:44.000I really pray to continue with authenticity, so really that we speak from our hearts.
00:02:50.000That's been my prayer recently just to be truthful, just be truthful and honest.
00:04:19.000And St. Paul says in Galatians, I died on the cross with Christ, and it is Him that is reborn in me.
00:04:29.000And this is an important passage in Galatians where he seems to have, in the preceding instance, been saying, Laws, rules, regulations aren't what's going to get you there.
00:04:39.000Only Christ is going to get you there.
00:04:41.000There's a brilliant C.S. Lewis quote the Stoic's error, the Stoic means the person that believes in Stoicism.
00:04:48.000Stoic conversationally and colloquially has come to mean a Stoic position means that you're not impacted by what is around you.
00:04:56.000You're able to maintain your connection with God or whatever it is that Stoics, a set of principles or values.
00:05:02.000But as Jordan Peterson would say, once you say that there are a set of absolute values and principles, that is essentially your God.
00:05:10.000If you say, my God is family or my God is health, you're essentially saying there's a God, there's a principle that you're returning to.
00:05:18.000My God is I love animals, or my God is I believe in God, or my God is I believe in science.
00:05:26.000C.S. Lewis says, the Stoic's error is to assume that what you can do sometimes, you can do always.
00:05:33.000Why I love Mr. Rogers, and why I think Mr. Rogers is a good place for us to start, Laura, is in the movie, the Tom Hanks movie about Mr. Rogers, which I guess is called.
00:05:51.000But like, over here, what I think is that I'm.
00:05:54.000He does such a wonderful job of rendering Mr. Rogers, and the film amounts to the film charts the.
00:06:01.000It's probably based on an article written in Esquire where a Esquire journalist is given the task of doing a small puff piece on Mr. Rogers.
00:06:09.000He's a cynical, skeptical guy, the journalist played by Matthew Reese brilliantly.
00:06:15.000And it therefore becomes an encounter between someone whose values are held by the culture, i.e., if we work for a cool magazine and if we get married and have kids and if we just try and be a good person based on our own principles.
00:06:29.000And Mr. Rogers, who it seems, on the basis of what we see in the film and in subsequent material that I've watched, notably the documentary, which might be called Won't Be One of These Things, might be called Won't You Be My Name.
00:07:23.000But when you watch this material collectively as a follower of Christ, what I'm left with is he is able, under unbelievable pressure, to stay true to his.
00:07:36.000Connection with Christ, which is all that any of us are asked to do, is like, do you believe that God came to earth, lived a human life, and that somehow his death on the cross and resurrection is able to neutralize the problem of sin?
00:07:51.000We don't just mean vice, like, see, we mean by sin, I mean by sin, putting self ahead of God and using self as the agent of brokerage in your life.
00:08:03.000Now, this is why it's interesting because it means that.
00:08:06.000You can be selfish in a number of ways.
00:08:08.000It's not just, you know, for people like me, it's really obvious when I'm selfish because my selfishness was so vivid and brightly coloured.
00:08:15.000Look, he's drunk when he shouldn't be.
00:08:17.000Look, he's taking drugs when he shouldn't be.0.98
00:08:18.000Look, all this guy cares about is screwing around and himself and his own vanity and ego.0.61
00:08:23.000It's so obvious that it's like the light bulb moment is going to be similarly obvious.
00:08:28.000But other people aren't living in such an obvious way.
00:08:31.000They're just quietly, creepily making themselves the centre of the galaxy, trying to control you, trying to control reality.
00:08:37.000Like it says in the brilliant AA book, the AA big book, our actor in trying to be in control of every element of the production, the ballet, the lights, the set, may be kind and patient and tolerant and quite virtuous, or he might be mean and egocentric.
00:08:52.000But as with most human beings, he's likely to have a variety of traits.
00:08:55.000The point being that even if a person presents as kind, unless their intention is the service of God and the service of love, certainly something bigger than self, then they are actually just trying to run their own little environment.
00:09:07.000And that's been very relevant for us this week, those kind of ideas.
00:09:17.000And, you know, it really brings, you know, it brings tears, doesn't it?
00:09:21.000Because it's got moments that I'm sure resonate.
00:09:24.000There's the parental thing on the Lloyd Vogel character's part where it's like, you know, Mr. Rogers ends up bringing together the journalist, but really gives the journalist a different perspective.
00:10:18.000So, and actually, last year for my birthday, Russell had bought me this book, and it's actually a psychology book by a doctor on Mr. Rogers.
00:10:26.000It's called The Mr. Rogers Effect Seven Secrets to Bringing Out the Best in Yourself.
00:10:29.000And I was thinking about this morning how all of the really, all of these things are godly qualities, really, all his qualities that they're analysing.
00:10:42.000Because I wonder, my suspicion is that this book is an attempt to secularise and psychologise something that was essentially and fundamentally.
00:10:51.000Christian, that Mr. Rogers was an ordained Christian minister who never mentioned the fact to his audience, but everything he did was coming from his direct contact with Christ.
00:11:01.000As a Christian, that is obvious and plain.
00:11:04.000And it fascinates me that the culture wants to somehow mobilize around secularizing and therefore desacralizing Christ and Christianity.
00:11:14.000An obvious example of that would be Elon Musk, no disrespect to this powerful man, Elon Musk saying, I like Christian values.
00:11:22.000Architecture, culture, or Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, the famous biologist and evolutionary biologist, saying, Well, I acknowledge now Christian culture has brought a lot of fruit.
00:11:33.000You can't extrapolate and you can't extricate.0.85
00:11:37.000Even though within the church and myriad varieties of Christian church, some people will say, Without the sacraments in this way, you're finished.
00:11:45.000And other people will say that that institution, the Holy Catholic Church, is too compromised by its past.
00:11:53.000At least there is an acknowledgement that Christ is.
00:11:55.000King and what he is doing in each of our hearts and collectively is the determining factor for how our resolution of our cultural and geopolitical problems.
00:12:04.000Having said that, I just was on the phone with a mate of mine, beloved Joe, and his mate Nav, who's a Muslim, and I made clear the point we are not going to achieve social and cultural change until Muslims, I'm talking about the UK especially, Muslims and Christians and non Christians come together in peace and harmony over what the deal is.
00:12:36.000So, these are the qualities that they've put it down to.
00:12:40.000And actually, the reason I'm saying, really, the reason I'm bringing this up with the very knowledge that we would say, well, where is the Christ?
00:13:02.000When we watch that film, whether it's Tom Hanks playing him or whether it's the documentary and you see clips, Or whether it's when you watch it with your children, which I did, I showed them an episode yesterday, the show, and how could you not?
00:13:17.000The kids loved it, no matter that it was a different era, the long pauses, the silences, the consideration over points.
00:13:25.000One of our children, very strong reaction to King Friday.
00:13:31.000Well, King Friday was baked or given some cookies by the postman, Mr. McFeely, and King Friday said, Put them over there, people can help themselves.
00:13:40.000And our daughter Peggy went, You know, he's not acknowledging the cookies.
00:14:46.000Men relating to this method of painting and a seal and complementing each other but gently and giving each other space.
00:14:55.000It was like everything was exercised in this one, like what was it, a five minute segment.
00:15:01.000And we all felt extremely kind of inspired and nourished by watching it.
00:15:07.000And the way that this lady breaks it down, I think what we could do is we can talk about, obviously, this relating exactly to the Bible.
00:15:15.000I mean, God, you know, Jesus, I suppose, is.
00:15:18.000You know, one, listening first, two, validating feelings, three, pausing and thinking, four, showing gratitude, five, develop empathy, six, practice acceptance, and seven, establish security.
00:15:29.000What I think though, I mean, like not to sort of critique, well, actually, yes, to critique that, I think that this is an attempt, this book, to reapportion what he was doing into something that can extract, in fact, the essence and the most important thing.
00:15:45.000Rather, and I think you've got to start with the essence.
00:15:47.000It's essential because what you and our daughters felt.
00:15:51.000When watching Mr. Rogers, yes, was what he intended you to feel.
00:15:56.000But this was a person that at the time people may not have known it, yeah, was very deliberately trying to reach children with Christ.
00:16:05.000By Christ, I mean love, kindness, connection.
00:16:09.000Like he revered childhood, he revered it in the way that Christ does.
00:16:13.000When Christ says, If anyone who wants to reach me, become as little children, Mr. Rogers was dealing with these children in that way.
00:16:20.000Now, what and it made them the challenge, I think, for us is.
00:16:23.000How do we, even when doing our humble podcast in a new way, in a new medium, in a new time, do the same thing?
00:16:32.000Well, we're not trying to speak to children.
00:16:33.000We're speaking, I suppose, in one way to anyone, in another way to married couples, in another way, people that have followed my career, in another way, people that may have looked at or read your books.
00:16:42.000What we're trying to do, I think, what I'm trying to do is the words you said near the beginning of this authentic.0.93
00:16:47.000And authenticity here is not, is like, is the, Mr. Rogers was disgusted by what the culture was doing to children and how it saw them and how it treated them, making them morons, making them consumers, making them think too fast, making them afraid.
00:17:02.000Making them, he said a very telling thing in the documentary that these TV shows have no regard for human dignity.0.89
00:17:11.000Yeah, that's a very interesting point.
00:17:13.000And actually, I think like what it led me to, what I was actually going to say was.
00:17:17.000It's not that you can't say this about this book.
00:17:19.000I'm just saying that I'm not arguing that point.
00:17:21.000I'm breaking it down as to see what they're recognizing in the secular sense.
00:17:25.000And then I'm saying, which I was going to continue on to say, is that when you say the word essence, which is the essence of Mr. Rogers, which is ultimately when we are.
00:17:37.000When we talk about like the soul of a person, what we're talking about really is the essence of a person.
00:17:43.000So, when I picked this book up this morning, the Henry Nouwen book, Life of the Beloved, I looked at this page, Blessed, right?
00:17:51.000And this whole chapter talks about how to give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
00:17:58.000And what Mr. Rogers is doing is he's seeing the soul and he's seeing the essence of the person and he is blessing the person where they are.
00:18:09.000So, what it says here, which is what I wanted to read because I felt it related to this, was you know, I could just read this whole bit actually.
00:18:16.000Let me tell you, let me first tell you what I mean.
00:18:20.000I'm sure people watching this may know this.
00:18:22.000We've talked about this book before, but Henry Nouwen, do you know much about him, by the way, Russell?
00:18:27.000But he was a Catholic priest who dedicated his life to the care of disabled people and lived in a community where his primary duty was the care of one man, I think, with some sort of spastic condition, like serious cerebral palsy or MS, or it might be multiple sclerosis.
00:19:12.000Depending on how you deal with that C.
00:19:15.000The word benediction that is used in many churches means literally speaking well or saying good things of someone, saying good things of someone.
00:20:48.000Your beautiful smile, your kindness to the people in your house, and all the good things you do show us what a beautiful human being you are.
00:20:56.000I know you feel a little low these days and that there is sadness in your heart, but I want you to remember who you are.
00:21:02.000A very special person, deeply loved by God and all the people who are here with you.
00:21:08.000And then I just wrote a note on the side saying, speaking truth about a person's soul and a person's essence is how I feel when we see Mr. Rogers interacting and saying, I speak to the camera as if I'm speaking to you, an individual.
00:21:36.000A blessing, yes, and that whoever was he says in the scripted movie, yeah, in the when acted by Tom Hanks, whatever's in front of him in that moment, that is God.
00:21:45.000Now, this takes me to that brother Lawrence and Meister Eckhart practicing the presence of God.
00:21:51.000That what is in front of you comes from God.
00:21:53.000I don't want to go on a criminal trial in October, God wants you to go on a criminal trial in October.
00:21:59.000God has blessed you with this trial, and you will, by His grace, experience what He wants you to experience in this moment.
00:22:07.000This is what God wants me to deal with.
00:22:09.000Now, I see that before you continue, especially if it's remotely tangential.
00:22:16.000When you read this first part of Henry Nouwen's description of what a blessing is, can I take you back to a very intimate moment in our recent marital life?
00:22:27.000The moment where I'm experiencing my mother's been staying with us.
00:22:31.000It's been a stormy time, an intense time.
00:22:34.000Everything in our life feels thick, thick spiritual times.
00:22:38.000If this feels like a particular time, we speak.
00:22:40.000Spoke recently about spiritual warfare versus just the consequences of your actions and many material and rational circumstances.
00:22:47.000And spiritual warfare sort of suggests, as scripture does, that rebellion in the heavens precedes the fall of man.
00:22:55.000For the serpent, in very commas, the dragon, Lucifer, the fallen seraphim to be present in the garden, what took place before?
00:23:01.000We might get an idea of that if you read the book of Job or if you read the book of Enoch, the book of Job, of course, canon, book of Enoch, non canonical, except for in the Ethiopian Bible, both of which describe a kind of Game, gambit, or war in the spiritual realms and different characters and beings and figures.
00:23:18.000And whether you're a literalist or whether you accept that the five fishing lines of the senses are probably limited in their ability to probe and breach the eternal mind of God, his ways are not our ways, his thoughts are not our thoughts.
00:23:32.000The way we interpret and understand sensory information, visual information, energy, particularly when 90, I think 93% of the known universe is dark matter, dark energy, it doesn't mean it's literally dark.
00:23:43.000It means it's indiscernible using the Amplifiers of human senses, telescopes, microscopes, amplifiers of human senses.
00:23:52.000Now, to this point, then, is there a spiritual domain, an extrasensory realm, a realm of spiritual power that impacts and affects the lives of human beings?0.79
00:24:02.000The Christian perspective is most definitely yes.
00:24:04.000In fact, that's what everything is founded on.
00:24:08.000Now, to this idea of blessing, whether we talk about the blessing that Mr. Rogers endows through his work, where he consciously and constantly tries to stay present with Christ, so whoever's watching him is receiving a message from Christ.
00:24:20.000Or we're talking about this moment in our marriage where I say, I need to be seen by you.
00:24:48.000But also because I know how we relate with each other in a day to day and like the sort of feeling of, I think the thing that can be confusing is when you physically do a lot, like when you're the person, if you're looking after the home, if you're thinking and considering the meals, if you're considering the way to look after them, raise the children, if you're having prayer time, sometimes, and I'm speaking for myself, but I know that other women sometimes that I've spoken to can feel like this.
00:25:18.000Sometimes you feel like that's saying it, that that is saying it, that you're doing, that you're acting.
00:25:23.000The action is, the blessing is in the action of how you live and how you represent the person.
00:25:31.000You know, how you represent the person's gift.
00:25:35.000I guess this becomes a love language conversation, possibly.
00:25:40.000So, in a love language conversation, if the person especially tells you, this is what I need, where does that take the conversation?
00:25:50.000Then that, yeah, that needs to be considered.
00:25:59.000Like, you know, like the job is so for, you know, so for it's not cryptic.
00:26:04.000For me, In that moment, see, this is gosh, you can't be cryptic about this.
00:26:09.000The challenges in our life to us feel so serious that nothing but God will work.
00:26:15.000Now, where I meet God is in this, where I meet God, and thank the Lord, this is a continually evolving situation, is oh wow, everything that's happened to me and for me up till now has been you, Lord, leading me to this position.
00:26:28.000In the same way, in fact, I've realized, as Paul says, in the mother's womb, I was the apostle to the Gentiles.
00:26:36.000I feel like, wow, I misused my ability to establish intimacy in order to pursue personal pleasure.0.64
00:26:45.000That is, in my reckoning, a form of exploitation.
00:26:47.000Now, I know there's been publicity when I've talked about exploitation that's had, in some ways, a sort of a negative inference.
00:26:54.000But I see now that unless my life is lived on what you might call Mr. Rogers' level of awareness, like that means you take Christ's hand and then you don't let go of it.
00:27:08.000And then you recognize there will be points where.
00:27:11.000People are trying to pull you away, like the devil wants to sift you like wheat.
00:27:41.000In the documentary, it's brilliant because the documentary's got a bit more scope to sort of look at the cultural Mr. Rogers, where there were rumors about like saying he was gay or whatever.
00:28:52.000You know, a lot of people, Don't ever get redeemed because they never realize that the culture of the world is not going to give you the thing it promises you.
00:29:00.000Like the devil will offer you, no, come this way.
00:29:04.000It's actually going to make you more powerful than ever before.
00:29:06.000But actually, when you get down that road, if you commit to it, that was a lie and it doesn't even do the thing it says it's going to do for you.
00:29:14.000The same as all forms of addiction, being a good example.
00:29:17.000Well, funnily, and just as I was just thinking to say, because when I was looking at the blessing paragraph and then thinking about how it relates to, Jesus, when it says speaking directly to, it says to a person's belovedness.
00:29:32.000And then I looked up, like, how can we find a good reference for this in the Bible that's just exactly like this, you know?
00:29:38.000And it says, Mark 1 11, you are my son, whom I love, with you I am well pleased.
00:30:04.000And that was really, really lovely and meaningful.
00:30:07.000And I think that can be quite an emotional thing because I don't think it's not every, I don't think we're always thinking like that all the time.
00:30:16.000You know, I don't think that's like all the time we're thinking we're the children of God.
00:30:19.000I don't think we're all the time thinking of it.
00:30:21.000We're not thinking of it when we're doing X, Y, or Z. You know, we're thinking of ourselves as individuals in many ways.
00:30:29.000Funnily enough, when I just looked at the back of this book, which I hadn't read before, This is going to really antagonize you.
00:30:35.000It says here Imagine a world where these seven principles listening, validate, pause, and thinking, sharing gratitude, developing empathy, practicing acceptance, establishing security guide our interactions with each other.
00:31:16.000Like many times, I am wrong because I feel like I've been sort of honed for a particular type of confrontation where everyone tries to.
00:31:23.000The reason people don't feel like they're daughters of God is because the world tells you that your value is derived from what you do here.
00:31:41.000I'm in that war so much that I don't take the time sometimes to look at, oh, this one was doing exactly what Mr. Rogers did.
00:31:47.000Mr. Rogers smuggled the message of Christ where he stands at the gates of hell at Cesara Philippi, where all of the other gods are, the television, and he does that job.
00:33:07.000The world is in a negotiation with how, and what the world wants, what the culture wants.
00:33:12.000When I say these things, I mean the government and the powers that undergo and are masked by government, i.e., deep state, NGOs.
00:33:21.000Global, the WHO, the IMF, the World Bank, and things that even probably don't have a sigil in the world or a name in the world, because in the end, spiritual rebellion is first.
00:33:31.000Yeah, it comes from a spiritual thing.
00:33:32.000Now, what they try to do is in order to get maximum control, they will emulate and mimic the qualities and nature of God.
00:33:44.000But in order to do that, they will sometimes mimic the other characteristics of God, like truth or compassion.
00:33:50.000We live in an age where the media lies to you all the time.
00:33:54.000Big pharma companies that are meant to make medicines significantly and sufficiently prioritize profit to such a degree where they actually serve up medicines that are bad for you.
00:34:05.000An obvious example being the recent discoveries that some of these cholesterol medicines are predicated on lowering the cholesterol below a healthy level so that people stay on a lifelong prescription of anti cholesterol medications leading to Alzheimer's.
00:34:18.000Other examples are plainer, like the way the tobacco companies behaved until they no longer could.
00:36:43.000We know nothing from our own childhood.
00:36:45.000This is what I will say PBS, the company that made Mr. Rogers, go on to make Sesame Street, which I would say is an attempt to secularize using liberalism as the compassion part of Christianity to diffuse the holy power of Christ.
00:37:02.000Look, the power of Christ comes with duty and responsibility, and above all else, that yourself ain't the most important thing in the world.
00:37:09.000Now, liberalism and socialism replace.
00:37:11.000God with the state or a set of shared ideas, e.g., humanitarianism.
00:37:30.000The point is that you said that there was a time where it became sort of ridiculed and like actually, oh gosh, like I really hate that so much.
00:37:40.000I don't really like TV that much anyway.
00:37:51.000And actually, also, the reason I say this is I saw there was a girl wearing this great tie dye t shirt that looked a bit like your tie dye t shirt from your reborn one.
00:38:01.000And on it, it said, This is the Jesus generation, right?
00:38:26.000Or is it genuinely that people are coming to a place where it is more normalized now and more free to be the Jesus generation at 10 or 11 or 12?0.56
00:38:37.000Whereas before it was, it would be, and it still is, of course, pop culture, YouTubers, da da da.
00:38:44.000But now it seems more important as to whether Taylor Swift is Christian or not Christian.
00:38:49.000To us, anyway, it's like our kids talk about it all the time.
00:38:52.000So, hold on, is she Christian or is she not?
00:38:54.000How extraordinary that these pop stars that were born out of Christianity may find their way going back.
00:39:03.000Also, though, well, there are two differences.
00:39:05.000One, I think what you're saying, yeah, there is a sort of a different type of Christian culture in America, but indeed, there is a Christian culture.
00:39:10.000And I think some of our interest lately in the Holy Roman Catholic Church has been we don't want the culture, we want Christ.0.54
00:39:22.000You don't want faith in faith, as my guest on the podcast, you should check it out.
00:39:27.000Nathan Affby said, excuse me, Apfel, Apfel, Nathan Apfel said, you want faith in God, not faith in your own faith in God, not your own version of God.
00:39:37.000Now, what I think can happen, and I think what you and I are experiencing some is, oh, America has an American culture is unbelievable.
00:39:45.000It's the most powerful cultural machine that's ever existed.
00:39:48.000Obvious examples of that are some of the commercial enterprises, now notably the big American companies like Google or Apple.
00:39:55.000That have interesting relationships, this own it with the government, or whether it's American cultural institutions such as Hollywood.0.85
00:40:04.000Now, Christianity, in a way, is no different.
00:40:06.000I saw Nathan Apple saying that, like, Christianity is a trillion dollar industry.
00:40:12.000So, I mean, because it's making it accessible for, to, to, because you have to put in the time to do a Bible study with your children for them to understand.
00:40:26.000It has to be like, that's why the Sunday school idea is good, like the idea of a youth group and the learning and the teachings, because otherwise it does just become the paraphernalia.
00:41:32.000What you were watching in the outside world would be being interpreted via the senses, then it would be electromagnetic impulses in your brain, and then you would reinterpret in your psyche.
00:41:42.000What I'm trying to say is, everything is happening in the plane of your consciousness, and the plane of your consciousness is the narrow gate, it is the living water that flows down from the throne.
00:41:53.000So, each of us is in this garden, and each of us has temptation.
00:41:57.000Your temptations are what you know them to be.
00:42:51.000The culture exists in order to deny God, it's its function, it's its role.
00:42:55.000Now, back to your question about churches, well, where on the spectrum is the needle?
00:43:01.000Is it like America's amazing entrepreneurialism and ability for Zeal and evangelism that's made McDonald's the brand that it is, has made Warner Brothers the company that it is, has made the Harry Potter books written by a British woman, a Scottish woman, like you, my darling, become the cultural phenomena that it is.
00:43:26.000Are you moving towards God or away from God?0.68
00:43:28.000And what I say is, and this is why the question of why be Catholic, do you just want to join that original church with all of its obvious problems?
00:43:39.000Oh no, there was this big pitted pedophilia thing.
00:43:42.000Oh, the money, the mob, the Nazis, whatever, you know.
00:43:46.000And that many Catholics believe that the Vatican Council of 68 diluted its fundamental essence, and therefore you've got to be even more Catholic than that.
00:43:57.000Or do you go to a regular little church and see the same sort of things happening on a smaller scale?
00:44:04.000Whether it's a mega church in Texas or whatever, or a small church somewhere where you start to notice that the personalities of the team are being lionized, or some drive to generate revenue, albeit for a good Purpose or a good cause, and he all gets a bit righteous gemstones or some version thereof.
00:44:24.000I mean, I think that again, coming back to our main point of the show today, you're saying that Fred Rogers did not mention the fact that he was ordained, did not mention God, he never mentioned Jesus.
00:44:38.000He privately, we know from the documentary and from the film that he just at night he prayed and he prayed all the names of all the people he believed.
00:44:47.000He kept a book and he wrote the names down of people that he prayed for.
00:44:52.000And in that private prayer, in the solitude of whatever it was, the world that he was in himself, whether it was the weirdness of his childhood, or whatever it's cultivated in his mind, he's cultivated enough of a Garden of Eden in himself that he's able to be it without having to be promotional, without having to promote it.
00:45:14.000He doesn't have to promote it because he trusts Christ as well.
00:47:15.000Well, thank you for sharing the passages and for talking about this, because I know that this has been something you've really been thinking about a lot this week, and it's really good.
00:47:23.000I have, yeah, but you've been watching the documentary.
00:48:23.000Coin it and spread it because this needs an audience.
00:48:26.000Of course, I read it from the book Teaching from a Place of Rest, which was the book that we read a little bit of last week to do with homeschooling and really being in the home and work, you know, frankly, confronting that things don't always go that way.
00:48:41.000And it always basically means that it's a God intervention, really, is basically what it was.
00:48:45.000But, um, It goes on to say, when you're doing all the stuff and you're trying to impress the kids with this or that and you're trying to push yourselves to follow that curriculum, who's well done are you looking for?
00:48:55.000But that applies to so many different things.
00:48:58.000I'm sorry that I've cut the name off this one.
00:49:01.000Somebody said this, and it's a very sweet comment, so I'm sorry about that.
00:49:06.000I also forgot to mention that the very precious moment between you and Russell when he declares his love for you and vows to protect you.
00:49:13.000This was very sweet and it brought me to tears.
00:50:00.000Okay, tie dye, and there's this great army, you know, like those hunter print, when people go hunting and stuff, and there's that print camouflage.
00:50:08.000Yeah, but it's not camouflage like British, UK camouflage.
00:51:03.000And as you know, if you listen to me, I believe in this idea of a tessellation that if we had the senses but to see it, we would see and recognize a kind of a honeycomb structure that interconnects us and is beyond our personal identity.
00:51:48.000Within a person is an abyss, not an abyss because an abyss suggests emptiness, a vortex because a vortex suggests energy.
00:51:55.000And, oh, Lord, a sub molecular honeycomb cross, Lord, might be placed at every station, Lord, along the spine, along the line, along the pathway, the heavenly highway to Jerusalem, through Jerusalem, all the way to your throne, Lord, where the living water pours from, Lord, and on either side of the spine, Lord, of the highway, of the royal highway, our Father.
00:52:15.000There is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and there is the tree of life.
00:52:18.000Oh Lord, let us choose the tree of life.
00:52:20.000Let us not be separated from you, our Almighty God.
00:52:23.000Let us know what you would have us to do.
00:52:24.000Let's pray only for this, Heavenly Father.
00:52:26.000Even though we pray for intercession in the areas in our life that you know, Lord, and we ask St. Jude for your presence in those problems and that you would hear our prayer.
00:52:34.000And Lord, all things are a subset in this divine honeycomb of you, our King, and in this metaphor system, like a queen bee around whom all the hive is ordered.
00:52:46.000What is the language of Bees, Lord, that they know endocrinally or pheromonally what they must do and what their role is, and they know the presence of their Lord.
00:52:54.000They know if the queen bee has left the hive or if the queen bee needs to change.
00:52:59.000You, Lord, you are the perfect imprature, you are the insignia and sigil, you are the hieroglyph, you are the creator of the code, you are the emanator, you are the sun that shines and the rays that come from it.
00:53:10.000Oh, Lord, help us reach the source, the holy source.
00:53:13.000Let us know the true frequency that we may be truly faithful.
00:53:18.000Yoked to you in holy fidelity, recognizing the divine tessellation that there is a limitless geometry that transcends and runs through all language, like mathematics, like movement, like music, like the difference between a cacophony and a harmonious melody, Lord.
00:53:36.000Let us be, let us walk on the stave that you have provided and play the notes, the tunes that you have given us.
00:53:43.000Let us be your divine instrument as your St. Francis prayed.
00:53:47.000Always, Lord, bring joy where there is sorrow.
00:53:50.000Let us bring forgiveness where it is required.
00:53:53.000And let us die unto ourselves, God, that you may live in us in eternal life, our Lord and King and Master Jesus Christ.