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 Let me ask you a question. What is your daily routine?

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 Praying. Praying. All sorts of different things we could think of, aren't there?

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 Praying. Having our breakfast. Going to work. Time with family.

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 Taking the rubbish out.

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 What does a day in the life of you look like?

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 Take a few moments and imagine that I've given you a piece of paper and a pen.

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 And imagine that I've asked you to just jot down a few keywords or sentences or pictures

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 that just represent what an average day in the life of you looks like.

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 Now, there will be as many answers to that question as there are people.

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 Think about it for a few moments.

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 And I'm talking now about the ordinary stuff.

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 The mundane stuff.

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 My guess is right now you're thinking of images, or that's what I'm trying to get you to think of images,

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 that might involve being in the kitchen,

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 being in the bathroom,

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 the school run,

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 commuting,

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 finding a parking space,

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 filling up with fuel,

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 ploughing your way through emails,

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 replying to that text,

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 eating a sandwich,

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 shall I have ready salted or cheese and onion with that?

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 Running in to pick up a pint of milk on the way home,

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 or grabbing a cup of coffee at some point.

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 Replying to that text,

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 what does an average day in the life of you look like?

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 Now, my guess is,

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 as you ponder that question,

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 behind it all,

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 there will probably be two constant streams.

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 And at times,

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 some of those streams will peak,

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 and sometimes they will go down into a trough.

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 But there will be times of happiness,

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 and joy,

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 and excitement,

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 and anticipation,

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 all kind of positivity.

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 Blessings, if you like.

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 But there will also be a line,

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 of what we might call battles.

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 And there will always be those two things going on.

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 And sometimes the emphasis will be more on one than the other.

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 But by battles,

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 I mean there will be things that you struggle with.

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 Frustrations,

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 anxieties, worries,

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 big and small.

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 Short, medium, and long term.

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 Problems, challenges.

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 And they're always there.

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 Life has been described by many different people over the years

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 as a series of solving problems.

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 You've probably heard that old analogy,

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 which is actually a dead analogy now,

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 but the analogy of painting the fourth bridge.

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 You know,

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 it was always being painted,

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 because you take so long to paint,

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 by the time you get from one end to the other,

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 well, the paint only lasts so long,

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 so you have to go back

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 and start all over again.

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 And so this went on for years and years.

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 Up until about 15 years ago,

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 they actually discovered then

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 a type of paint that does last longer.

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 And so for the first time

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 in something like 120-something years,

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 they no longer are continually painting this bridge.

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 But for 120 years,

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 that was the reality.

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 It was always being painted.

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 Because as soon as you get one bit done,

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 there's something else to happen.

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 Now, as I say,

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 it's a dead analogy now,

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 but you get the point.

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 As soon as we solve one problem

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 or set of problems,

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 something else pops up.

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 And our daily routine takes place

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 with that backdrop consistently.

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 Maybe there's something in us,

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 and this perhaps is often the source

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 of our frustration

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 or perhaps even despair,

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 which kind of tells us,

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 well, of course,

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 one day you'll get all this sorted,

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 and win your hand,

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 then you can get on with life.

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 But it doesn't happen

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 because that's not life.

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 And life for a follower of Jesus

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 is ministry.

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 Every follower of Jesus

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 has a ministry.

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 And we can think to ourselves,

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 well, if only I can get all that sorted,

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 then I can get on

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 with my serving Jesus

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 and get on with my ministry.

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 But, you know,

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 the thing is,

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 the problems are the ministry.

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 Whatever you're thinking of right now,

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 when you think of those

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 everyday things

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 that make up your routine,

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 and the problems

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 and the frustrations

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 that are therein,

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 that's your ministry.

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 So what might Ruth

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 and her story,

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 or this part of her story,

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 have to tell us

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 about what it might mean

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 to be faithful to God

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 in the midst of all of that stuff.

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 I just want to suggest two things

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 that come from two passages

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 that we've just heard.

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 Two lines in that passage

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 that we've just heard.

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 The first comes from verse 2,

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 in which Ruth says to Naomi,

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 let me go to the fields

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 and pick up the leftover grain

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 behind anyone

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 in whose eyes I find favour.

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 And Naomi says to her,

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 go ahead, my daughter.

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 According to Jewish law,

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 Leviticus 23 to be precise,

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 when you harvested a field,

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 you had to leave behind

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 the scraps.

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 That was their security system.

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 For those that were poor,

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 marginalised,

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 they could come along

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 and help themselves

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 to those scraps.

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 It was enshrined

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 in Jewish law.

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 But notice

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 the sense of intention,

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 the sense of expectancy

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 that lies

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 within this conversation here.

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 See, this is Ruth,

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 for this moment in her life,

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 this is her daily routine.

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 She's going to go out

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 in the field

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 behind the farvesters,

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 picking up what she can find.

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 Imagine the sense

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 of vulnerability

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 that she has.

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 She's miles away from home,

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 she's left everything.

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 She's left a place

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 where famine was inherent.

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 They've had death

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 and loss within their family.

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 And her daily routine

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 is going behind the harvesters,

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 picking up what she can find.

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 For all of that concern

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 and fear and angst

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 that will be built

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 into her daily routine

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 right now,

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 notice,

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 pay attention

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 to the level of expectation

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 that is in this conversation.

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 let me go to the fields

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 and pick up the leftover

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 grain behind

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 anyone in whose eyes

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 I find favour.

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 Go ahead,

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 my daughter.

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 There is this sense

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 in Ruth

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 and indeed in Naomi

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 that God goes ahead of them

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 into that day

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 even though they don't know

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 how it's going to fare.

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 As it happens,

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 this story has a very happy ending,

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 but they don't know that

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 at this point.

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 but they do have

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 this sense

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 of confidence

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 that God goes ahead of them

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 into this situation.

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 And what I want to suggest to us

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 is that whatever

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 our daily routine looks like,

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 this is a pretty good lesson

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 that we can learn from Ruth.

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 Whatever vulnerabilities

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 may be ours,

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 no matter what frustrations

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 or struggles

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 we may be going through,

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 to make that our prayer,

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 Lord,

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 I don't know

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 what's going to happen today,

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 but you do

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 and I'm going to trust

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 that you go ahead of me

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 into this situation.

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 And if that seems

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 like a naive thing to say,

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 just consider Ruth's situation

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 as she takes

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 precisely that attitude

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 into her daily routine.

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 God's going ahead of me

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 into this.

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 I don't know

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 what it's going to be,

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 I don't know

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 how it's going to turn out,

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 who I'm going to meet,

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 what conversations will happen,

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 but somehow I'm going to trust

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 that God's going to meet that need.

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 And I want to suggest

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 that that's the challenge

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 facing all of us

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 as we face our daily routine,

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 whatever it may be,

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 to put God front and centre,

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 knowing that he goes ahead of us,

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 he goes before us

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 this day or this week.

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 A business studies tutor

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 was lecturing a group

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 of business studies students

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 on time management.

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 They took a bucket

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 and they filled it with rocks

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 and you could just see

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 a few rocks poking up

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 from the top

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 and they said to the students,

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 is this bucket full?

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 And they said,

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 well, yeah,

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 you can see it's full.

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 This rock's almost overflowing.

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 They said,

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 well, actually,

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 that's not quite correct.

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 They took another bucket

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 containing pebbles

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 and they poured it

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 into the bucket

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 containing the rocks

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 and as it did so,

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 so they sort of cascaded down

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 through the gaps

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 and filled the gaps

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 in between the rocks.

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 He said,

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 is the bucket full now?

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 And he said,

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 all right,

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 take your point,

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 yes,

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 it's full now.

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 He said,

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 you're still wrong.

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 At which point,

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 they picked up a sack of sand

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 and poured that

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 into the bucket

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 and so it made its way

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 into the little gaps

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 in between the rocks

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 and the smaller stones,

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 the pebbles.

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 He said,

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 is the bucket full now?

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 He said,

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 probably not.

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 She said,

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 you're right

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 and she took a jug of water

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 and she poured that

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 into the bucket.

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 She said,

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 I want you to remember

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 that image

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 whenever you're facing

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 so many competing sets

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 of priorities

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 and claims on your life

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 because there is only one way

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 in which you could get

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 all of those things

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 into that bucket

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 and that is if you start

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 with the large things.

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 If we'd have done it

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 the other way around

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 or in any other order,

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 it wouldn't have worked.

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 You can only fit

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 all of that

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 into that space

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 when you start

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 with the large rocks

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 and then you go down

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 in size

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 with the smaller things.

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 Now that was a lesson

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 in time management

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 but it's a pretty good lesson

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 when it comes to priorities

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 in the wider sense.

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 The calling of every Christian

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 in every age

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 is the calling

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 to put Jesus

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 front and centre.

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 Like Ruth,

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 we don't know

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 what's going to happen

00:11:16.419 --> 00:11:17.579
 in our daily routine.

00:11:17.939 --> 00:11:18.379
 We don't know

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 what's going to happen

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 the next day,

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 the next week,

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 the next month,

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 the next year.

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 Ultimately,

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 we have this faith

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 in Christ

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 but for day-to-day living

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 we don't know.

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 But this lesson

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 we can learn

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 from Ruth

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 is that sense

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 of expectation.

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 We go into this day

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 in her case

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 to walk behind

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 the harvesters

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 and pick up

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 what was left

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 on the floor

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 believing that God

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 somehow has got it

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 in hand.

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 Which leads us

00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:51.399
 to the second thing.

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 I said there were two things.

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 Which is in the next verse

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 when we read

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 in verse 3

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 so she went out

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 entered a field

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 and began to glean

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 behind the harvesters.

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 As it turned out

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 she was working

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 in a field

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 belonging to

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 Boaz

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 who was from

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 the clan

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 of Elimelech.

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 Well,

00:12:18.379 --> 00:12:19.060
 the story has

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 a happy ending

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 but at this point

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 we don't know that.

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 Unless,

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 of course,

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 you've read the story

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 but Ruth doesn't know this.

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 Naomi doesn't know it.

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 But there's four words

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 in those

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 in that short

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 sentence there

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 that

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 I want to draw

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 attention to

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 and it's just this.

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 As it turned out

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 I didn't know

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 what was going to happen

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 but as it turned out

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 she found herself

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 in a field

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 belonging to Boaz

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 who eventually

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 she was going to marry.

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 She didn't know that

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 at that point.

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 As it turned out

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 you know

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 we go through our lives

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 we're kind of thinking

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 well is this coincidence

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 or is it not?

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 And almost kind of

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 subconsciously

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 we can go into

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 each and every day

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 and face our routine

00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:08.520
 thinking well

00:13:08.520 --> 00:13:09.520
 is this luck?

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 Is this coincidence?

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 We don't know.

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 Think of that story

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 years ago

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 there was a pilot

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 who successfully

00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:17.620
 safely

00:13:17.620 --> 00:13:18.759
 crash landed

00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:19.960
 a plane

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 and he was being

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 interviewed afterwards

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 and he looked

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 remarkably calm

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 but

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 what perhaps

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 he didn't realise

00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:27.720
 he was saying

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 was actually quite telling

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 as he kind of

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 blurted out this answer

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 as the microphones

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 were put in front of him

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 and said

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 how are you feeling?

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 And he said

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 well

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 by chance

00:13:35.659 --> 00:13:36.620
 I was lucky

00:13:36.620 --> 00:13:38.539
 fate was on my side

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 thank God.

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 As it turned out

00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.240
 life can be full

00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:51.819
 of solving problems

00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:52.600
 it can also be full

00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:53.660
 of coincidences

00:13:53.660 --> 00:13:52.600
 it can also be full

00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:53.680
 of coincidences

00:13:53.680 --> 00:13:55.960
 so often people say

00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:56.700
 answers to prayer

00:13:56.700 --> 00:13:57.540
 are coincidences

00:13:57.540 --> 00:13:58.220
 in which God

00:13:58.220 --> 00:14:00.600
 coincidences in which

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 God chooses

00:14:01.160 --> 00:14:01.960
 to remain

00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:02.879
 anonymous

00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.160
 can't be verified

00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:06.120
 can't be falsified

00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.400
 but living by faith

00:14:08.400 --> 00:14:08.900
 is living under

00:14:08.900 --> 00:14:09.500
 that conviction

00:14:09.500 --> 00:14:10.379
 that God has got it

00:14:10.379 --> 00:14:10.840
 in hand

00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:12.100
 as it turned out

00:14:12.100 --> 00:14:14.020
 as it turns out

00:14:14.020 --> 00:14:15.340
 as we

00:14:15.340 --> 00:14:17.060
 make our way

00:14:17.060 --> 00:14:17.400
 through

00:14:17.400 --> 00:14:18.560
 our daily routine

00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:19.640
 living under that

00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:20.039
 conviction

00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:20.779
 I don't quite know

00:14:20.779 --> 00:14:21.340
 how it's going to

00:14:21.340 --> 00:14:21.679
 turn out

00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:22.259
 but I believe

00:14:22.259 --> 00:14:22.699
 that it will

00:14:22.699 --> 00:14:23.220
 turn out

00:14:23.220 --> 00:14:27.799
 between 1901

00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.120
 and 1920

00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:31.779
 the Bishop

00:14:31.779 --> 00:14:32.419
 of Durham

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 his name

00:14:37.059 --> 00:14:38.139
 was Handley

00:14:38.139 --> 00:14:38.939
 Mool

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 I think it's

00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:39.960
 pronounced

00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:44.559
 Handley Mool

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 was Bishop

00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:45.899
 of Durham

00:14:45.899 --> 00:14:47.039
 and during his

00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:47.679
 time

00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:48.919
 in that role

00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:50.519
 there was a

00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:51.059
 horrific

00:14:51.059 --> 00:14:52.459
 mining tragedy

00:14:52.459 --> 00:14:54.720
 and he was

00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:55.340
 faced with the

00:14:55.340 --> 00:14:55.840
 task of

00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:56.179
 visiting

00:14:56.179 --> 00:14:57.299
 the families

00:14:57.299 --> 00:14:58.679
 of 170

00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:00.059
 miners

00:15:00.059 --> 00:15:00.919
 who had died

00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.220
 and as Handley

00:15:05.220 --> 00:15:05.799
 Mool sat in

00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:06.340
 his study

00:15:06.340 --> 00:15:07.120
 wondering how

00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:07.659
 on earth

00:15:07.659 --> 00:15:08.179
 he was going

00:15:08.179 --> 00:15:08.639
 to face

00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:09.480
 that challenge

00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:11.019
 he prayed

00:15:11.019 --> 00:15:11.720
 really hard

00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:14.259
 and he picked

00:15:14.259 --> 00:15:14.779
 up a

00:15:14.779 --> 00:15:16.060
 bookmark

00:15:16.060 --> 00:15:16.639
 that his

00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:17.040
 mother had

00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:17.320
 given him

00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:17.920
 years ago

00:15:17.920 --> 00:15:19.480
 it was a

00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:20.279
 hand stitched

00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:20.860
 bookmark

00:15:20.860 --> 00:15:22.120
 and he was

00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:22.660
 looking on the

00:15:22.660 --> 00:15:23.379
 reverse side

00:15:23.379 --> 00:15:23.879
 of this

00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:25.480
 and just

00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:25.899
 seeing that

00:15:25.899 --> 00:15:26.740
 the tapestry

00:15:26.740 --> 00:15:28.300
 there

00:15:28.300 --> 00:15:28.779
 and it was

00:15:28.779 --> 00:15:29.480
 just a mess

00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:31.759
 as it is

00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:32.800
 the reverse

00:15:32.800 --> 00:15:33.800
 side of any

00:15:33.800 --> 00:15:35.259
 piece of

00:15:35.259 --> 00:15:35.840
 tapestry

00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.340
 and as he

00:15:38.340 --> 00:15:39.000
 looked at this

00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:39.379
 he just

00:15:39.379 --> 00:15:39.759
 kind of

00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:40.680
 ran his

00:15:40.680 --> 00:15:41.360
 thumb over it

00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:41.720
 and thought

00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:42.240
 to himself

00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:42.560
 yeah

00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:43.700
 that's

00:15:43.700 --> 00:15:44.700
 the mess

00:15:44.700 --> 00:15:46.120
 that's going

00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:46.580
 on right

00:15:46.580 --> 00:15:47.000
 now

00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.519
 that's the

00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:49.060
 mess that

00:15:49.060 --> 00:15:49.759
 doesn't seem

00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:50.399
 to show any

00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:50.899
 sense of

00:15:50.899 --> 00:15:51.500
 beauty or

00:15:51.500 --> 00:15:51.840
 reason

00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:52.779
 just chaos

00:15:52.779 --> 00:15:54.419
 I don't know

00:15:54.419 --> 00:15:54.840
 what to make

00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:55.100
 of it

00:15:55.100 --> 00:15:55.399
 and he

00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:56.100
 turned that

00:15:56.100 --> 00:15:56.480
 around

00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:57.419
 and saw

00:15:57.419 --> 00:15:58.639
 the other

00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.220
 side where

00:15:59.220 --> 00:15:59.480
 it was

00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:00.039
 embroidered

00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:00.399
 simply

00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:00.759
 God

00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:01.440
 is

00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:02.399
 love

00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:09.500
 we have

00:16:09.500 --> 00:16:09.840
 ultimate

00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:10.320
 promises

00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:11.180
 of eternity

00:16:11.179 --> 00:16:12.179
 but we're

00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:12.620
 not there

00:16:12.620 --> 00:16:13.039
 yet

00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.339
 we have

00:16:14.339 --> 00:16:14.879
 that ultimate

00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:15.599
 promise

00:16:15.599 --> 00:16:17.579
 that as it

00:16:17.579 --> 00:16:18.179
 turns out

00:16:18.179 --> 00:16:19.579
 God's got it

00:16:19.579 --> 00:16:20.079
 in hand

00:16:20.079 --> 00:16:20.699
 but sometimes

00:16:20.699 --> 00:16:21.079
 it doesn't

00:16:21.079 --> 00:16:21.659
 feel like it

00:16:21.659 --> 00:16:22.120
 and our

00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:23.719
 daily experience

00:16:23.719 --> 00:16:24.139
 our daily

00:16:24.139 --> 00:16:24.579
 routine

00:16:24.579 --> 00:16:25.679
 can be just

00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:26.599
 one of staring

00:16:26.599 --> 00:16:27.500
 at that

00:16:27.500 --> 00:16:28.159
 reverse side

00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:28.399
 of the

00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:28.959
 tapestry

00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.660
 but our

00:16:31.660 --> 00:16:32.000
 call is

00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:32.560
 to live

00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:33.139
 under that

00:16:33.139 --> 00:16:33.680
 conviction

00:16:33.680 --> 00:16:37.600
 turn it

00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:37.879
 over

00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:39.440
 in

00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:39.920
 eternity

00:16:39.920 --> 00:16:42.000
 and you'll

00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:42.420
 see he's

00:16:42.420 --> 00:16:42.700
 got it

00:16:42.700 --> 00:16:42.980
 all in

00:16:42.980 --> 00:16:43.300
 hand

00:16:43.300 --> 00:16:46.420
 see these

00:16:46.420 --> 00:16:46.940
 God's

00:16:46.940 --> 00:16:47.320
 sense of

00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:47.820
 time is

00:16:47.820 --> 00:16:48.480
 very different

00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:49.040
 to our

00:16:49.040 --> 00:16:49.519
 sense of

00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:49.740
 time

00:16:49.740 --> 00:16:50.480
 because God

00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:51.220
 by definition

00:16:51.220 --> 00:16:52.580
 is eternal

00:16:52.580 --> 00:16:56.000
 but we live

00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:56.220
 in the

00:16:56.220 --> 00:16:56.680
 confines of

00:16:56.680 --> 00:16:57.060
 time and

00:16:57.060 --> 00:16:57.580
 space

00:16:57.580 --> 00:17:01.780
 for God

00:17:01.780 --> 00:17:02.080
 you know

00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.740
 one fleeting

00:17:04.740 --> 00:17:05.100
 moment

00:17:05.100 --> 00:17:05.960
 a thousand

00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:06.340
 years is

00:17:06.340 --> 00:17:06.620
 like a

00:17:06.620 --> 00:17:06.920
 fleeting

00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:07.480
 moment to

00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:07.700
 him

00:17:07.700 --> 00:17:09.160
 to us

00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:09.539
 it's not

00:17:09.539 --> 00:17:10.120
 because it's

00:17:10.120 --> 00:17:10.779
 that daily

00:17:10.779 --> 00:17:11.779
 experience of

00:17:11.779 --> 00:17:12.319
 time and

00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:12.860
 space and

00:17:12.860 --> 00:17:13.920
 routine and

00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:14.579
 struggles and

00:17:14.579 --> 00:17:16.680
 wrestling and

00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:17.380
 doubting and

00:17:17.380 --> 00:17:17.819
 pain and

00:17:17.819 --> 00:17:18.360
 anguish

00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.339
 but in

00:17:22.339 --> 00:17:22.619
 God's

00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:22.959
 time

00:17:22.959 --> 00:17:25.059
 he's got

00:17:25.059 --> 00:17:25.359
 his hand

00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:25.659
 on it

00:17:25.659 --> 00:17:27.979
 he sees

00:17:27.979 --> 00:17:28.439
 the other

00:17:28.439 --> 00:17:28.839
 side of

00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:29.500
 that tapestry

00:17:29.500 --> 00:17:30.379
 in his

00:17:30.379 --> 00:17:30.740
 time

00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:32.639
 our calling

00:17:32.639 --> 00:17:33.179
 is to live

00:17:33.179 --> 00:17:33.679
 by faith

00:17:33.679 --> 00:17:34.000
 under the

00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:34.419
 conviction

00:17:34.419 --> 00:17:34.879
 that it

00:17:34.879 --> 00:17:35.299
 is there

00:17:35.299 --> 00:17:36.339
 it is

00:17:36.339 --> 00:17:37.139
 taking place

00:17:37.139 --> 00:17:39.879
 you know

00:17:39.879 --> 00:17:40.299
 thinking about

00:17:40.299 --> 00:17:40.719
 time

00:17:40.719 --> 00:17:41.699
 we often

00:17:41.699 --> 00:17:42.279
 complain don't

00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:42.679
 we about

00:17:42.679 --> 00:17:43.179
 the speed

00:17:43.179 --> 00:17:43.539
 with which

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 it takes

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 things to

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 get through

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 the post

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 you may

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 have heard

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 that story

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 it was

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 2021

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 there was a

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 guy in

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 Crystal Palace

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 in South

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 London

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 that received

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 a letter

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 the thing

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 that was so

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 unusual about

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 it was that

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 it had a

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 George V

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 stamp on

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 it

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 when he

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 opened it

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 up it

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 wasn't addressed

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 to him and

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 he could tell

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 it was very

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 old

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 when he

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 opened up

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 the letter

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 it was a

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 letter that

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 had been

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 posted from

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 Bath from

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 somebody on

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 holiday

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 in 1916

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 only took

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 105 years

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 to get

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 there

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 what made

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 me laugh

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 was that

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 the Royal

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 Mail

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 spokesperson

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 afterwards

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 said

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 incidents

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 like this

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 happen

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 occasionally

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 it got

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 there

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 and we

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 are uncertain

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 as to what

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 happened

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 in this

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 instance

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 thing is

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 all the

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 while

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 throughout

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 those 105

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 years

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 that letter

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 had been

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 posted

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 it was on

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 its way

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 it was

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 going to

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 get there

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 God's

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 promises

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 can be

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 hard to

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 understand

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 and can

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 be hard

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 to trust

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 in at

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 times

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 our call

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 like Ruth

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 is to

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 trust

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 to trust

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 in him

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 that as

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 it turned

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 out

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 God was

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 working on

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 it

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 in his

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 own time

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 so let's

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 pray together

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 now

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 and as

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 we pray

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 let's

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 revisit

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 those

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 images

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 that I

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 invited you

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 to bring

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 to mind

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 a few

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 minutes

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 ago

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 let's

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 take a

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 moment

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 to be

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 still

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 you might

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 find it

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 helpful to

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 close your

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 eyes

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 because I'm

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 going to

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 invite you

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 to picture

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 in your

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 mind

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 some

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 images

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 that

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 represent

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 a day

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 in the

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 life

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 of you

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 let's

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 just pray

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 through our

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 daily routine

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 right now

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 Lord thank

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 you that you

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 have been

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 there and

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 that you

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 are there

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 all the

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 time

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 Lord our

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 sense of

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 time is

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 different from

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 yours

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 from your

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 vantage point

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 in eternity

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 Lord help

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 us to

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 trust in

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 you and

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 to be

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 faithful to

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 you in

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 our daily

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 routine

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 first let's

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 just take a

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 few moments

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 just to

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 imagine what

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 we might be

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 doing at

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 eight o'clock

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 tomorrow

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 Holy Spirit

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 would you

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 renew in

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 us that

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 confidence that

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 you are there

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 already

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 preparing whatever

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 we're going to

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 be there

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 when we get

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 to eight o'clock

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 tomorrow may

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 we know

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 your presence

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 with us

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 now I

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 invite you to

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 turn your

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 thoughts to

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 midday or

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 thereabouts

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 tomorrow

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 where you'll

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 be what

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 you'll be

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 doing who

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 you'll be

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 with

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 Holy Spirit

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 may we know

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 that you will

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 be there

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 help us to

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 be faithful to

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 you whatever

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 we're going to

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 be up to at

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 that point

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 and now

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 turn your

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 thoughts to

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 about six

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 o'clock

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 early evening

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 tomorrow

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 what you're

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 going to be

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 doing who

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 you're going

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 to be with

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 Lord as we

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 think about

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 tomorrow evening

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 wherever we

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 may be whatever

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 we're going to

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 be up to may

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 we know that

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 you are with

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 us that you

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 go ahead of

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 us

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 Lord as we

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 face our

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 daily routine

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 this day

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 tomorrow and

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 this week and

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 each day

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 help us like

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 Ruth to

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 have that

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 expectancy

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 that you go

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 ahead of us

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 help us like

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 Ruth to

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 know and to

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 trust and to

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 believe that

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 you've got it

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 all in hand

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 that things

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 will turn out

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 right

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 Lord be

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 with us in

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 the waiting

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 be with us

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 in the

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 praying

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 help us to

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 be faithful

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 to you

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 and to

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 know your

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 faithfulness to

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 us

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 in Jesus

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 name

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 Amen

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 Amen

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