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Good morning.
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We welcome you to this service of worship,
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particularly our visitors.
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A number of years ago, when I was a young minister
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in South Carolina, I got up early on Sunday mornings
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to listen to the Protestant Hour broadcast.
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And on that broadcast I heard the voice of one,
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a voice so mellow and reassuring and yet,
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in so disturbing in his sermons,
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it was Lewis Patrick
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who is probably appeared on the Protestant Hour
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more than any one speaker.
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It's a privilege for us to welcome him to the chapel
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today as our preacher.
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Many times as we encounter human suffering
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and pain in life we wonder what we can do.
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I remind you that each Sunday,
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we receive an offering in Duke Chapel.
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Nearly all of the offerings that we receive here
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go to alleviate human suffering at home and abroad.
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The work of Meals on Wheels
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is highlighted in today's bulletin.
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This is just one of the ministries of this chapel.
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So when the offering is received,
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we invite you each Sunday to give generously.
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And now let us prepare ourselves for worship.
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♪ Blessed be the God ♪
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♪ And Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ♪
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♪ Which according to His abundant mercy ♪
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♪ Hath begotten us again unto a lively hope ♪
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♪ By the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ♪
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Whosoever shall do the will of God, Jesus said,
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the same as my brother and sister and mother.
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Let us pray.
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Oh God, who has shown us Thy eternal will
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and the life of Christ our Lord
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Oh, God.
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Who art ever working in our hearts by the operation
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of Thy spirit to make us fellow workers with Thy will.
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Oh God, who willist that all will be saved
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and come to the knowledge of Thy truth.
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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From all reliance on ourselves alone,
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from trying to limit the range of Thy purposes,
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from doubts of Thy mightiness and operation.
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Save us an help us.
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We humbly beseech Ye, oh Lord.
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From all unwillingness to learn Thy will,
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from clinging to our own plans and desires,
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from all want of faith that hinders self commitment
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to Thy guidance.
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Save us and help us.
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We humbly beseech Ye, oh Lord.
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From cowardess following Thy leading,
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from ever suffering our own ambitions
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to cloud the vision of Thy will for us,
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from trying to serve the and escape the costs,
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Save us and help us.
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We humbly beseech Ye, oh Lord.
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From weakness when we are faced with decisions,
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from over confidence in making them,
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from acting without trying to learn Thy will.
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Save us and help us.
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We humbly beseech Ye, Oh Lord.
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From shirking the responsibility of our place
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in the divine order,
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from fearing new truth and new ways of thought and life.
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Save us and help us.
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We humbly beseech Ye, oh Lord.
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From seeking to set forward human progress,
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whether in the church or in the world
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by doing our own will instead of loyally
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asking to know Thine.
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Save us and help us.
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We humbly beseech Ye, oh Lord.
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Amen.
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Open our hearts and minds, oh God.
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By the power of Your Holy Spirit,
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so that as the word is read and proclaimed,
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may hear with joy what You have to say to us this day.
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The first lesson is from Genesis,
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chapter 28, versus 10 to 17.
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Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.
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And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night
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because the sun had set.
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Taking one of the stones of the place,
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he put it under his head
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and laid down in that place to sleep.
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And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth
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and the top of it reached to heaven.
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And behold, angels of God
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were ascending and descending on it.
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And behold, the Lord stood above it and said,
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I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father
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and the God of Isaac.
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The land on which you lie, I will give to you
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and to your descendants.
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And your descendants should be like the dust of the earth.
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And you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east
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and to the north and to the south.
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And by you and your descendants
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shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.
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Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go.
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And will bring you wherever you go
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and will bring you back to this land.
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For I will not leave you until I have done that
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to which I have spoken to you.
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Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said,
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surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.
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And he was afraid and said, how awesome is this place.
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This is non other than the house of God
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and this is the gate of heaven.
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Here ends the reading.
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Please be seated.
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The epistle lesson is from Philippians,
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chapter two, versus one to 13.
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So if there is any encouragement in Christ,
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any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit,
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any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being
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of the same mind, having the same love,
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being in full accord and of one mind.
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Do nothing from selfishness or conceit,
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but in humility count others better than yourselves.
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Let each of you look not only to his own interests,
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but also to the interests of others.
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Have this mind among yourselves,
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which is yours in Christ Jesus,
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who, though he was in the form of God,
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did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
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but emptied himself, taking a form of a servant,
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being born in the likeness of men.
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And being found in human form, he humbled himself
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and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
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Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him
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the name that is above every name,
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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
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in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
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and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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to the glory of God the Father.
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Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed,
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so now, not only as in my presence
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but much more in my absence,
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work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
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for God is at work in you, both to will and to work
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for his good pleasure.
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Here ends the reading.
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The gospel is from Luke chapter four,
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versus 16 to 12.
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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.
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And he went to the synagogue, as his custom was
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on the Sabbath day.
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And he stood up to read and there was given to him
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the book of the prophet Isiah.
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He opened the book and found the place
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where it was written,
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the spirit of the Lord is upon me
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because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
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He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
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and recovering of sight to the blind.
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To set at liberty those who are oppressed,
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to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
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And he closed the book
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and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
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And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
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And he became to say to them,
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today the scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.
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And all spoke well of him and wondered at the gracious words
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which proceeded out of his mouth.
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And they said, is this not Joseph's son?
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This ends the reading of the gospel.
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Amen.
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[Pastor Patrick Lewis] For all of us,
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this is the day the Lord has made.
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But for some of us, it is a bit more awesome
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than for others and not until I stood up here
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did I really appreciate why your ever gracious dean
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put on the back of the chair where I'm sitting,
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the word, preacher.
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It helps to be reassured in this awesome setting
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that one has come to preach,
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especially, when the text seems so out of place
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for this context.
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The 28th chapter of Genesis, the 17th verse:
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When a man awakens in the out of doors
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in the midst of every day life and says,
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surely the Lord is in this place
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and I knew it not.
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And is called up with great awe and trembling.
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And it is about that kind of wonder
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that I want to speak with you this morning.
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That we are running into everyday
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and somehow or other, it escapes us.
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We see the silver rain peppering on the pond.
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And we smell the incense of honey suckle
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at the end of a hot and bothered summer day.
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And at night, we listen
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while the waves lull the shore to sleep.
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A while some whipple wheel makes its plaintiff call
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from out of a deep dark wood,
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and we think, awe as such things as the stuff of life.
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And we do and this as the wonder that lies
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deep down in things where life consists
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not in the number of breaths we take
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but in those times when our breath is taken away from us
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and all we can do is say, ah, ah.
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That's why no day is lost in which we marvel.
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For whosever wonders rains and whoever rains
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will find rest.
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Stay yourselves and wonder
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who makes the streams run
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and the valley's grass on the mountains
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shows His goodness to the forgotten.
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Sets at liberty those who are in chains.
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Proclaims the acceptability of the Lord
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but always in terms of the common everyday events.
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To see this is to indeed be saved.
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But so often this awe of wonder escapes us.
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We look at every day life,
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our own life, and the life of the world,
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and instead of awe of wonder,
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it's the blah of what we know
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and what we somehow think we understand.
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We see through everything there is to see
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until we've seen through it.
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Every question has an answer.
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Until you come to the blah of class after class
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after class, all questions with answers.
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The blah of a world where we are moved around
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in terms of digits assigned to our places by computers,
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known by numerals instead of names.
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The blah of plastic replacing wood.
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Powered stuff in place of Betsy's milk.
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Soap operas instead of real life.
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Where we do indeed see through what is in everything
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until there is nothing left to see
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and we look through the slits of our eyes
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knowingly like some downstairs maid.
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Until all the prophet can do is say to the likes of us,
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see, you blind, listen, you deaf.
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Do at wonder that at deep down
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in the everyday things.
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Annie Dillot tells how a six or seven year old in Pittsburgh
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and goodness knows Pittsburgh is no wonder city,
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not even with the Steelers and the Pirates.
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She would go out as a six or seven year old,
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when this curious compulsion laid hold on her
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to hide a penny somewhere in that smokey city,
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along a certain stretch of sidewalk,
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to hide a penny always under a sycamore root
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or a crack in the sidewalk.
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And then beginning at one end of the block or the other,
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draw arrows leading towards it
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and when she'd learn to write, she'd put on the arrows,
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surprise ahead, or money, this way.
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And how she then would go hide.
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Had no desire to see it, just to think the wonder
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of someone in the universe receiving a free gift
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from the universe, without regard of merit
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or desserts or anything.
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Now she says, the compulsion no longer seizes her.
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But since we live in a world that is strewn with pennies,
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if we would cultivate that kinda healthy poverty
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where finding a penny would make your day,
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we would thereby, simply by that poverty,
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inherit a lifetime of days.
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But in a world where facts are facts
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and facts are all that matter,
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who has time to stoop for pennies.
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You know, what's one more copper?
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So she says, the cold frost of fact
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gives correctly stated death to all that lives.
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And pennies do not make our days.
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She means that we have demystified life.
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Forests are no longer enchanted.
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Sidewalks are not longer full of surprises,
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just ways of getting places.
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You would know this had to come from another generation,
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wouldn't you?
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Flower in the granite wall, I pluck you out of the crannies.
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And I hold you here in my hand, little flower.
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And if I could but know what you are,
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root in all and all in all,
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if I could but know what you are,
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then I would know what God and man is.
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What do you mean, if?
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Anybody with a botany badge, girl or boy scout
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knows what a flower is.
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Anthem, stamen, pedal, you know.
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Not even the heavens are above our knowledge anymore.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
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I don't need to wonder what you are.
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You're just so much combusting mass of CNN and hydrogen gas.
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Here's how one person put it:
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One day I went walking and I found a magic glass,
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a magic looking glass.
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A stagnant pond, said Cas.
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One day I went walking and I found a fairy's dress,
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a princess fairy's dress.
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A fallen leaf, said Tess.
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One day I went walking and I found a brownies shoes,
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a brownies button shoe.
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A dry pea pod, said Sue.
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The next time I go walking, I'm going by myself.
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Unless, I meet an elf,
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a funny, friendly elf.
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That's why John Omen said
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that as long as he was a Methodist--
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He became a Roman Catholic.
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As long as he was a Methodist,
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had he seen Jesus walking on water,
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he would have had to say,
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sir, would you do it again. I didn't get the trick.
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That's how important it is for us to demystify.
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To understand in such a way that it does not so much
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lead to wonder as take away the wonder.
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So a man in St. Louis dying of cancer writes a book
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called, The Living End.
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He's an English teacher
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and it's about a fellow named, Ellerbee who--