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Good News #184 072625: Exploring Faith and Nature: A Journey with Deacon Al · Catholic Spirit Radio

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  Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost
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  teens to better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in their
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  lives, and it's a place where your questions about faith and religion can be answered.
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  And now, here's your host, Deacon Al.
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  Good evening. Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio.
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  I am Deacon Al Lundy. I'm a permanent deacon here in the Peoria Diocese,
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  coming to you every Friday and Saturday evening. No, Saturday and Sunday evening.
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  See, you take a couple weeks off, you forget everything.
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  I'm here Saturday and Sunday evenings from 8 to 8.30 on Catholic Spirit Radio.
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  Been gone for a couple of weeks.
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  Wife and I took a vacation. We only really vacation once a year.
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  And this time, we took two weeks and went to upstate Washington State to the Northwest Peninsula.
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  Actually to Olympic National Park, which is just an amazing place.
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  We've been planning this for nearly a year.
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  And I have to say, I got really checked off just about everything on my bucket list.
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  You would have loved it, John. We saw elk in the wild, black-tailed deer, orcas.
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  I saw three pods of killer whales chasing seals through the Salish Sea.
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  I never thought I'd say that in my life. It was so cool.
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  We're on this large boat chasing whales, saw some humpbacks,
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  and saw these orcas, much bigger than I expected.
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  I mean, I saw them performing at SeaWorld kind of thing.
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  But to see them out in the wild, these things are huge.
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  And they're fast. I mean, they are fast.
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  And so we saw entire families. You can tell the difference between the male
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  and the female by the size of the dorsal fin.
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  The male dorsal fin is much bigger, like twice, three times the size of the female.
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  It's so large, it starts to flop over. It's so big.
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  And then we even saw pups, little baby orcas swimming next to mom, over a dozen of them.
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  Probably in total, we probably saw 15, 16 killer whales porpoising through the
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  water as they rounded up some seals.
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  We saw some seals before they got eaten.
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  We walked tidal pools at low tide in the Pacific where you can go up and hunt
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  through these stacks, these large rock towers.
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  I mean, they're huge rock towers that lift up out of the ocean at low tide.
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  And you find living starfish that you can touch and sea anemone and mollusk and pittocks.
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  Have you ever heard of a pittock? I never heard of a pittock.
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  So there are these These are very small clams about the size of a nickel.
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  Maybe a little larger, but about the size of a nickel. Who are able to burrow into rock.
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  So they'll take a large rock, a large boulder, about the size of a bowling ball.
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  And dozens of these will burrow holes into the side of the rock and rest in
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  the holes, like little caves. They're called pittocks.
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  So we're finding boulders that are filled with pittock.
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  Saw some crab, little tiny horseshoe crabs. It was just, it was an amazing two weeks.
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  So where is God in all this? Why am I talking about this on a program about good news, right?
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  About the good news of Jesus Christ. So where is God in all this?
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  Well, of course, one is just the absolute beauty of nature.
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  A lot of my friends, oh, have you been to the Holy Lands? No,
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  I haven't. Oh, have you been, you know, have you been to Rome?
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  Nope, haven't been to Rome.
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  We travel the United States when we go on vacation. Every year,
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  we try and go to a different part of the United States.
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  This is such an absolutely gorgeous country. We are so blessed with the beauty of this country.
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  And I think when you live in the Midwest, where things are pretty flat,
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  you know, you can go to Starved Rock or something to see a little bit of,
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  you know, some waterfalls and some canyons, but it's not the same.
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  And sometimes we forget just how beautiful this whole country is.
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  And so we love traveling this country. So, of course, one of the things you
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  get out of it is God's creation is amazing.
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  What he has put together for us, because he didn't do this for the birds.
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  You know, he didn't do it for the whales or the deer.
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  All this was done for us. And I think that is just amazing.
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  So much, so, oh, what's the word I want to say? The humility that you have to
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  look at this with, you know.
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  So that's one thing. But the other thing is, and I especially appreciated this
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  since my mother passed away just a few weeks before we left on vacation.
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  God's plan for life out of death, new life coming out of death.
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  You know, having our new life out of our death here with this mortal life.
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  We have this wonderful new life waiting for us.
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  Well, you see that in action in nature.
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  We're walking through, hiking through rainforests, a lot of hikes through rainforests
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  over the last couple of weeks, and you find what's called nurse logs.
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  These are trees that have fallen over, humongous trees that have fallen over,
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  dead, lying on the ground.
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  Maybe they got knocked down by storms, maybe just age, whatever.
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  Lying there on the ground dead, moss begins to form on the bark.
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  Seedlings from other trees start to fall into the moss, and they start to grow.
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  Well, they're on top of this huge log. They're like six, seven feet off the ground.
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  So their roots start to dig into the dead tree, and they start to climb down
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  the sides of the dead tree until they reach the ground.
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  And so these new trees are now, they look like they're standing on multiple
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  legs, like big spiders, right?
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  Standing, feeding now off the dead tree and off the ground, off the nutrients of the ground.
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  And then they begin to grow until finally, after a hundred years or more,
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  the nurse tree collapses.
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  Leaving the trees that were nursing on it standing up on their roots well above the ground.
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  I mean, you walk underneath them, and they're in a perfectly straight line because
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  they follow the trunk of the nurse tree that they grew on. So they're called colonnades.
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  So you see these colonnades of new trees.
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  And you see this all over the place. So as the rainforest is dying,
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  the rainforest is growing. One tree falls, but from that tree,
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  multiple new lives take place.
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  And that's just the tree life. You think of all the insects and the birds and
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  the other animals that use this dead tree for food and for shelter and the way
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  that it gives nourishment back into the ground. This is Christ.
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  Christ died to give new life to so many others in so many different ways.
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  So I'm walking through this. My wife is seeing nurse trees, and I'm thinking,
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  Christ, you know, this is what goes on for us.
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  This is the Christian church growing out of the death of Christ and new life that Christ brings.
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  So God's in this in a lot of different ways.
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  So that's kind of what I took off. And it helped me with the mourning for my
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  mom's passing, knowing that new life will come from this, new life for her and new life for us.
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  I think of all my brothers and our children that now have life and life in the
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  church because of my mother's life. So there's a lot of parallels here.
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  And that's why it's good to get away from the television, get away from the
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  computer, get away from the phone, and go out and just.
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  Really appreciate what God has given us in creation and know that we're as much
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  a part of that creation as the whales and the deer and the trees and the birds.
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  We're part of that same system.
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  And God has intended for us to die in this life and have a new life afterwards.
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  So, if you really want to see that in action, I highly recommend the Pacific
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  Northwest, Ho Rainforest, and all the things we did there.
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  We probably saw eight or more waterfalls.
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  It was just absolutely gorgeous. God is amazing. And we live in a beautiful country.
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  Get out and enjoy it. We did not listen to the radio or watch television for two weeks.
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  It was so cool. I had no phone calls. I had no phone messages for two weeks.
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  The only thing I used my phone for was mapping.
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  It's great for finding your way around and identifying bird calls.
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  If you like the outdoors and you don't have Merlin on your phone,
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  there's a great app to download. It's called Merlin.
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  And it listens to bird calls and tells you what species you're listening to.
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  And you can set it for different parts of the world, not just different parts
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  of the country. You can tell what part of the world you're in.
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  And it has all these, this huge bird library.
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  So it'll listen to it it'll say this is the bird you're hearing shows you a
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  picture shows you the migratory you know where does it migrate to where does
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  it live year round what does it eat it's an amazing thing I set out our first
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  place we stayed was a tiny house cozy house
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  cozy peaceful place in the woods that's the name of it
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  you'd find it on on google and we
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  stayed there the the first four nights and i'd
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  get up in the morning get my coffee uh get my little breakfast roll go sit on
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  the porch and just listen to the bird calls and i had there were hummingbird
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  feeders around us we're getting hummingbirds we had cedar wax wings going back
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  and forth there were red-headed woodpeckers just all kinds of wildlife but if
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  you'd hear a call and you don't know what it is,
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  and you'd look at your phone, oh, it's a Swainson's Thrush.
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  I'd never heard of a Swainson's Thrush before. They are all over Washington.
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  They're like the robin of Washington State.
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  Beautiful songbird, just an amazing songbird. So anyway, God is great,
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  and God's creations are breathtaking.
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  Get out and look at them.
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  Don't look at it on TV. Get out and walk it, even if it's just local stuff,
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  like I said, like Starved Rock, or you can go down, to the south end of Illinois,
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  to Shawnee National Forest. Beautiful place.
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  But get out and get into the world. That's where God's happening.
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  And you can really meet Him pretty much face-to-face out in nature.
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  And there are a couple really great lessons in this that you'll hear throughout these three readings.
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  So, let's start with a reading from the book of Genesis.
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  It says, In those days, the Lord said, The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah
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  is so great and their sin so grave that I must go down and see whether or not
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  their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.
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  While Abraham's visitors walked on further toward Sodom, the Lord remained standing before Abraham.
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  Then Abraham drew nearer and said, Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?
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  Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city.
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  Would you wipe out the place rather than spare it for the sake of the fifty
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  innocent people within it?
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  Far be it from you to do such a thing, to make the innocent die with the guilty,
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  so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike.
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  Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?
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  The Lord replied, If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom,
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  I will spare the whole place for their sake.
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  Abraham spoke up again. If I find, I'm sorry, see how I am presuming to speak
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  to my Lord, though I am not but dust and ashes.
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  But what if there were five less than 50 innocent people? Will you destroy the
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  whole city because of those five?
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  He answered, I will not destroy it if I find 45 there.
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  But Abraham persisted, saying, well, what if only 40 are found there?
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  He replied, I will forbear doing it for the sake of the forty.
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  Then Abraham said, Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on,
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  but what if only thirty are found?
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  He replied, I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there.
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  Still Abraham went on, Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord,
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  what if there are no more than twenty?
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  The Lord answered, I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.
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  But Abraham still persisted.
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  Please let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time.
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  What if there are at least ten there? And he replied, For the sake of those
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  ten, I will not destroy it. The word of the Lord.
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  I love this reading. To me, this is one of the funniest parts in Scripture,
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  and Scripture does have some humorous parts in it.
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  But I think what this conversation between Abraham and God really humanizes
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  God so much, you know, really shows how in tune he is with his human creations.
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  Here's Abraham who understands that he's nothing, he's ashes,
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  he's dirt, and he's talking to Almighty God, and yet he pushes him a little bit at a time.
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  Why? Because Abraham loves humanity and knows that God loves humanity too.
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  He understands the character of God, that God doesn't want to be an unjust judge,
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  that he doesn't want to destroy the good with the evil.
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  We'll all die at some point, but that doesn't mean that we're going to be treated the same.
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  God makes it clear that he doesn't want to treat the innocent and the evil the same.
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  He'd rather save everybody, but not everyone gives God that opportunity to do
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  that because he still has to be just.
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  You know, if you have two children and one child obeys all the rules of the
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  house and one child breaks all the rules of the house,
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  you aren't going to punish both because that wouldn't be fair because it wouldn't
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  be fair to reward both either.
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  So, you have to treat them somewhat differently when it comes to whether or
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  not you approve, disapprove, accept, or reject their behavior.
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  You want to love them both because they're both your children.
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  God wants to love us all equally, and he does, but he can't treat us all the
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  same because that wouldn't be fair, and God is just.
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  And so Abraham keeps pushing to remind God just how much he loves us,
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  that rather than destroy the whole town, if there were 50 good people,
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  he'll save the entire town.
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  If there's 40 good people, if there's 35, if there's 30, if there's 20,
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  and finally down to 10, if there's 10 just people, God will not destroy the entire town.
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  But that came through Abraham's persistence. And you'll hear it in a moment
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  from our gospel that Jesus teaches us to be persistent too, that God listens.
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  Prayer isn't just magic.
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  God isn't a genie. We ask him to do something and he does it.
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  He's not a trained monkey for us. You know, hop up on the stool and God hops up.
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  No, but God does listen. And if he didn't listen, there'd be no point to prayer.
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  And prayer existed far before the Christian faith occurred.
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  The Jews were praying to God long before us.
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  So they understood that we have a God who listens and a God who answers back.
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  So if we go to the second reading, Paul to the Colossians.
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  Brothers and sisters, you were buried with him in baptism in which you were
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  also raised with Him, through faith in the power of God who raised you from the dead.
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  And even when you were dead in transgressions and uncircumcision of your flesh,
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  He brought you to life along with Him,
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  having forgiven us all our transgressions, obliterating the bond against us
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  with its legal claims, which was opposed to us.
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  He also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.
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  So here's, Paul is reminding the Colossians that it's not only the Jews who
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  were graced by God, who were loved by God.
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  God loved all mankind, even the non-Jews, even the ones who were uncircumcised,
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  who weren't held to the bonds of the laws of Moses.
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  God still loved them and was still willing to forgive their sins,
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  and all it took was for them to come to God and accept Him. And they do that through baptism.
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  So, Paul's reminding the Colossians, it's not just about the Jews,
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  and you don't have to become Jewish to become saved. You're saved because of
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  God's love for mankind, and you reciprocate that love through your baptism.
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  In our gospel reading, which is according to Luke, Jesus was praying in a certain place.
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  When he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord,
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  teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.
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  And he said to them, When you pray, say, Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.
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  Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves
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  forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.
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  He said to them, Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight
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  and says, Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, For a friend of mine has arrived
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  at my house from a journey, and I have nothing to offer him.
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  And he says in reply from within, Do not bother me.
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  The door has already been locked, and my children and I are already in bed.
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  I cannot get up to give you anything.
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  I tell you, if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves because of
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  their friendship, he will get up and give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.
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  And I tell you, ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find.
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  Knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives,
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  and the one who seeks finds.
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  To the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
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  What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish,
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  or hand you a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
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  If you then who are wicked know how to give good gifts to your children,
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  how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask
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  Him? The Gospel of the Lord.
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  So we're back to this fact that God loves you.
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  No matter who you are, God loves you.
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  And if a loving father isn't going to do cruel things to their son,
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  then the father of all fathers, the perfect father, God, is not going to go
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  do cruel things to you when you ask for what is good.
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  So Jesus gives us the foundation of the most common prayer in our faith, the Our Father.
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  Now, it's not all here. Some of it's been added to it through the ages,
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  but it's the same message that is, ask God what you need for today.
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  Not what you want, what you need. God will take care of your basic needs, but you have to ask Him.
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  And you have to ask, sometimes you have to ask frequently, because the answer
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  isn't always yes right away.
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  Sometimes the answer's no, not now.
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  If you're eight years old and you ask your father for the keys to the car,
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  a good father is going to say no.
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  A bad father would hand the eight-year-old the keys and say,
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  yeah, take it for a drive, see how you do.
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  But a good father is going to say, no, you're not ready yet,
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  but one day I will give you the keys and I will teach you how to drive.
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  That's how God works with us.
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  But just because you get no the first time doesn't mean stop asking.
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  God still wants to know that you depend on him as God, that you want him to
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  be involved in your life.
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  So the lesson from this weekend is God loves you.
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  God listens to you. You can talk to him. You can reason with him.
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  And you can be persistent with him.
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  And you're not going to tick him off.
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  God wants this conversation.
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  So what do you do to have a conversation with God? When do you do it? How often do you do it?
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  Build prayer into your life each and every day, each and every hour.
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  Something to consider. May Almighty God bless you, protect you from all evil,
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  and bring you to everlasting life.
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  a program for teens and almost teens to better understand that the gospel of
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  Jesus Christ is relevant in your life.
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