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- 0:01Speaker 1: War on worry. You can say goodbye to anxiety. You
- 0:06Speaker 1: can bid farewell to the frets. God wants to write
- 0:10Speaker 1: a new chapter in your life that is marked by
- 0:13Speaker 1: increasing peace and diminishing panic. Anxiety comes with life, but
- 0:21Speaker 1: it doesn't have to run your life. The Bible has
- 0:25Speaker 1: a prescription for inner peace, and this is it. Rejoice
- 0:30Speaker 1: in the Lord always. Again, I will say, Rejoice. Let
- 0:37Speaker 1: your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is near.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication,
- 0:52Speaker 1: with thanksgiving. Just let your requests be made known to God.
- 0:58Speaker 1: And the peace of God, which surp it passes all understanding,
- 1:02Speaker 1: will guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, Brethren,
- 1:08Speaker 1: what things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things
- 1:12Speaker 1: are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
- 1:16Speaker 1: whatever things are of good report, If there is any virtue,
- 1:21Speaker 1: if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. Lord,
- 1:28Speaker 1: We open our hearts now to a new chapter in
- 1:30Speaker 1: our lives, in which we discover this peace as described
- 1:35Speaker 1: by your servant Paul, that passes understanding. Forgive the sins
- 1:41Speaker 1: of the one who speaks, they are many, and help
- 1:45Speaker 1: us to see Jesus, just Jesus through Christ. We pray
- 1:52Speaker 1: and all the church said. It's a low grade fear.
- 1:56Speaker 1: It's an edginess. It's a cold wind that just won't
- 2:00Speaker 1: stop howling. It's not so much a storm as it
- 2:04Speaker 1: is just the hunch, maybe even the certainty that one
- 2:08Speaker 1: is coming, always coming, always another storm, sunny days or
- 2:14Speaker 1: just an interlude. A person can't relax in life, can't
- 2:18Speaker 1: enjoy the sun too much, You can't really let your
- 2:21Speaker 1: guard down. Peace is temporary, it's just short term. It's
- 2:27Speaker 1: not so much the sight of a grizzly bear, but
- 2:29Speaker 1: this suspicion of one at every turn or two or ten,
- 2:35Speaker 1: Behind every tree, beyond every bend, there's trouble out there, inevitable,
- 2:42Speaker 1: just a matter of time until the grizzly leaps out
- 2:45Speaker 1: of the trees and bears its things and gobbles up you,
- 2:48Speaker 1: your kids, your friends, your country, your descendants, your church,
- 2:52Speaker 1: your society. So you don't sleep well, you don't laugh much,
- 3:00Speaker 1: you don't enjoy the sun. You don't whistle when you walk.
- 3:06Speaker 1: In fact, when someone does, you give them a look,
- 3:09Speaker 1: that look that are you naives look. You may even
- 3:15Speaker 1: give them a word don't you know there's trouble to
- 3:20Speaker 1: be had out there? Airplanes fall out of the sky,
- 3:24Speaker 1: bull markets go bare, good people turn bad. Haven't you
- 3:27Speaker 1: read the news and heard the reports and seen the studies.
- 3:30Speaker 1: The other shoe always falls. There's always fine print. There
- 3:38Speaker 1: is no free lunch. It's just a matter of time.
- 3:43Speaker 1: It's a meteor shower of what ifs. What if we
- 3:47Speaker 1: don't get the job. What if I don't get the bonus,
- 3:50Speaker 1: What if we don't get the sale. What if we
- 3:51Speaker 1: can't afford braces for the kids. What if our kids
- 3:54Speaker 1: grow up with crooked teeth? What if because of crooked
- 3:57Speaker 1: teeth they don't have girlfriends or boyfriends or friends. And
- 4:00Speaker 1: what if someday they're standing on the street corner holding
- 4:03Speaker 1: up a cardboard sound that said, my parents never bought
- 4:05Speaker 1: me braces. What if it's a trepidation, it's a suspicion.
- 4:16Speaker 1: It's part chicken a little and part e or the
- 4:21Speaker 1: sky is falling and is falling disproportionately on top of me.
- 4:25Speaker 1: It's anxiety. What is anxiety? Anxiety is a free floating
- 4:36Speaker 1: sense of dread. Anxiety is a free floating, ill defined
- 4:44Speaker 1: sense of dread of things that might happen sometime in
- 4:52Speaker 1: the future. Fear, by contrast, is an awareness of a
- 5:01Speaker 1: concrete threat, a specific object, an event, something that could
- 5:07Speaker 1: threaten and does threaten to attack you or hurt you.
- 5:10Speaker 1: You fear failing the board exams or not making the
- 5:14Speaker 1: job deadline. You fear the income tax payment, or the
- 5:17Speaker 1: possibility of no date for the prom that's fear. Anxiety
- 5:21Speaker 1: is vague, it's distant, it's not really logical. It's just
- 5:28Speaker 1: that sense that something bad always happens, and it's about
- 5:33Speaker 1: my turn. Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety results
- 5:41Speaker 1: in gloom and doom. Fear is the pulse rate that
- 5:47Speaker 1: raises when you see a coiled rattlesnake next to the path.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Anxiety is the decision to never walk barefooted anywhere in
- 5:58Speaker 1: any yard, in any part of the world, because somewhere
- 6:02Speaker 1: in the world there's a rattlesnake. You know. Fear and
- 6:09Speaker 1: anxiety both are a part of life, both serve a
- 6:14Speaker 1: function in life. But fear and anxiety are different. Anxiety
- 6:18Speaker 1: is a general angst about life. It's just a general
- 6:25Speaker 1: angst about life. In fact, the word angus has in
- 6:32Speaker 1: its first syllable, what angst come from the same source.
- 6:37Speaker 1: So if you are auss, then you are full of angst,
- 6:44Speaker 1: full of dread, full of trepidation, full of fear. If
- 6:49Speaker 1: you are angouss, then you're going through life going That's
- 6:55Speaker 1: the sound I make when I'm walking up the stairs
- 6:59Speaker 1: about the tenth. I find myself running low on oxygen,
- 7:03Speaker 1: so I start going Shush, shush. Anxiety will steal your breath.
- 7:09Speaker 1: I remember talking to a minister from the Big Island
- 7:12Speaker 1: of Hawaii, a Native Polynesian fellow, and I asked him,
- 7:16Speaker 1: why is it that Hawaiians refer to we Westerners as Howley's.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Have you ever heard that phrase Howley's? He said, Well,
- 7:25Speaker 1: howey means out of breath, he said. In the eighteen
- 7:29Speaker 1: twenties when people immigrated to Hawaii, they came with such
- 7:33Speaker 1: a rapid pace and work ethic of establishing plantations and
- 7:38Speaker 1: building seaports that the Hawaiians gave them a nickname. They're
- 7:42Speaker 1: always short on breath. Anxiety will steal your breath, It'll
- 7:47Speaker 1: steal your sleep, It'll take your well being. Anxiety leads
- 7:52Speaker 1: to stiff necks, clintch jaws, over active and or inactive bowels.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Anxiety iety can twist us into emotional pretzels. It can
- 8:03Speaker 1: make our eyes twitch, our blood pressure rise, our armpits sweat.
- 8:06Speaker 1: One doctor said, if you want to really see the
- 8:09Speaker 1: consequences of worry, just read about half the ailments in
- 8:13Speaker 1: a medical textbook. Anxiety ain't fun, no wonder, the wise
- 8:19Speaker 1: man said, Worry weighs a person down. Chances are that
- 8:29Speaker 1: you or someone you know has a serious struggle with anxiety.
- 8:32Speaker 1: According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders
- 8:36Speaker 1: are reaching an epidemic proportion. In a given year, seventeen
- 8:40Speaker 1: percent of Americans will feel the effects of a panic attacked.
- 8:45Speaker 1: That is to say, our chest will tighten, will feel
- 8:48Speaker 1: dizzy and lightheaded, will fear crowds, and avoid people. According
- 8:52Speaker 1: to one research program, anxiety related issues are now the
- 8:57Speaker 1: number one mental health problem among women are the second
- 9:03Speaker 1: problem among men, second only to drug and alcohol abuse.
- 9:08Speaker 1: The United States is now the most anxious nation in
- 9:11Speaker 1: the world. Reading from one researcher, stress related ailments cost
- 9:16Speaker 1: our nation three hundred billion dollars every year in medical
- 9:19Speaker 1: bills and loss productivity, while the use of sedative drugs
- 9:23Speaker 1: keeps skyrocketing. Just between nineteen ninety seven and two thousand
- 9:27Speaker 1: and four Americans more than double their spending on anti
- 9:31Speaker 1: anxiety medications like xanax and valium from nine hundred million
- 9:36Speaker 1: to two point one billion dollars. The American Medical Association
- 9:42Speaker 1: cited a study that expresses the exponential increase of depression.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Our generation is three times more likely to suffer from
- 9:56Speaker 1: depression as the generation prior. The generation prior three times
- 10:02Speaker 1: more likely than the one prior to that one. Why
- 10:06Speaker 1: is this? Our cars are safer than ever, our water
- 10:14Speaker 1: has never been more regulated. Even the air we breathe
- 10:18Speaker 1: is monitored. Gangs prowl our streets, but most of us
- 10:23Speaker 1: go to sleep every night without the thought of being attacked.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Yet to look at our emotional state, you'd think we
- 10:29Speaker 1: were living in the battle zone. Curiously, citizens of less
- 10:37Speaker 1: developed nations have far less levels of stress. Citizens in
- 10:44Speaker 1: developing countries experience anxiety to the level of one fifth
- 10:53Speaker 1: that Americans do. And, as one researcher said, when these
- 10:58Speaker 1: less anxious developing world's citizens immigrate to the United States,
- 11:03Speaker 1: they tend to get just as anxious as Americans. Something
- 11:07Speaker 1: about our particular way of life is making us less
- 11:11Speaker 1: calm and composed. I mentioned that in the United States,
- 11:17Speaker 1: seventeen percent of Americans can expect to experience a panic
- 11:22Speaker 1: attack during a given year. Guess what that number is
- 11:25Speaker 1: south of the border, in Mexico, a country that right
- 11:30Speaker 1: now has a reputation for violence. Anybody want to guess
- 11:36Speaker 1: six point six percent. People in Mexico are a third
- 11:43Speaker 1: less anxious than people north of the border. I want
- 11:46Speaker 1: to go to Mexico and the news gets worse. I
- 11:52Speaker 1: don't want to worry you. But according to one when
- 12:00Speaker 1: UCLA research team, our college kids are more stressed out
- 12:04Speaker 1: and anxious than ever before. In a study that involved
- 12:07Speaker 1: more than two hundred thousand incoming freshmen, students reported all
- 12:12Speaker 1: time lows in overall mental health and stability. As Robert
- 12:16Speaker 1: Leehy pointed out, the average high school kid today has
- 12:20Speaker 1: the same anxiety level as the average psychiatric patient in
- 12:25Speaker 1: the early nineteen fifties. Kids have more toys, they have
- 12:31Speaker 1: more tools, have more opportunities than ever, but they're leaving
- 12:36Speaker 1: high school rapped tighter than Egyptian mummies. Why what's the
- 12:44Speaker 1: cause of this anxiety? Well, that's one of our questions
- 12:49Speaker 1: over the next ten weeks in finding a cause. Maybe
- 12:53Speaker 1: we can find a cure, but we all know some
- 12:55Speaker 1: of the causes. Never has society changed so much. Just
- 13:00Speaker 1: are telling us that in the last thirty years our
- 13:03Speaker 1: world has seen more change than in the prior three
- 13:06Speaker 1: hundred years. Can you relate to that? I was walking
- 13:12Speaker 1: through a hospital a couple of weeks ago, led by
- 13:14Speaker 1: a volunteer lady who knew I was lost, which I
- 13:17Speaker 1: usually am Candy striper tip. She was eighty five years old.
- 13:22Speaker 1: As we were walking, she was checking apps on her iPhone.
- 13:28Speaker 1: I said, how do you keep up with all this change?
- 13:30Speaker 1: She said, you got to it's a changing world. Think
- 13:35Speaker 1: what has changed since you were born? Most of us
- 13:39Speaker 1: were around prior to email. Some kids say, was that
- 13:45Speaker 1: before fire or after fire? We've seen astounding changes in
- 13:52Speaker 1: the technological world. We've also seen remarkable eruption and disruption
- 13:58Speaker 1: in moral values. Or we've seen world climate change. We've
- 14:03Speaker 1: seen the arrival of terrorism. ISIS has come to be
- 14:07Speaker 1: a part of our vocabulary, and we're hearing things more
- 14:10Speaker 1: quickly than our generations prior ever did. If there's an
- 14:15Speaker 1: earthquake in Australia or Nepal fifty years ago, we wouldn't
- 14:19Speaker 1: have known about it. Perhaps ever, if we did not
- 14:23Speaker 1: for another week or two. Now we'll care about it.
- 14:26Speaker 1: We'll get alerts on our phone. We don't have time
- 14:31Speaker 1: to process. We're just inundated with world change, societal change,
- 14:37Speaker 1: with news, twenty four hour news cycles, most of which
- 14:42Speaker 1: are not positive. Hard. In addition to that, we have
- 14:47Speaker 1: just all the regular stuff that comes with being a
- 14:49Speaker 1: human being. We get sick, we get cranky, we struggle
- 14:55Speaker 1: in jobs, we have health issues. We're reminded daily that
- 14:59Speaker 1: these bodies are getting weaker and older. Deanland. My wife
- 15:03Speaker 1: came home the other day with an app, an app
- 15:08Speaker 1: saying if you take a selfie and send it in,
- 15:14Speaker 1: it will guess your age. She was proud because it
- 15:19Speaker 1: guessed her fifteen years younger than she is. So I thought, well,
- 15:24Speaker 1: I'll do it the I'm sixty. It guessed that I
- 15:32Speaker 1: was sixty eight. I thought there must be a mistake.
- 15:36Speaker 1: I did it again. I guess I was seventy three.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I did it one more time. I was seventy eight.
- 15:42Speaker 1: I said, I'm not going to do it again. It'll
- 15:43Speaker 1: think I'm dead. It's change coming from all angles. It's
- 15:52Speaker 1: enough to make a person anxious, and it's enough to
- 15:59Speaker 1: make a wonder was the apostle Paul kidding when he
- 16:03Speaker 1: gave this anxiety challenge, he said, be anxious for nothing.
- 16:12Speaker 1: I would have been happy with worry less or be
- 16:16Speaker 1: anxious only on Thursdays. But this is a sweeping statement.
- 16:22Speaker 1: He says, be anxious for nothing, and he uses that
- 16:25Speaker 1: word anxious or worry. We studied it before. It's a
- 16:28Speaker 1: Greek word which means to divide the mind. Don't let
- 16:32Speaker 1: your mind be all chopped up into pieces. Don't be
- 16:35Speaker 1: so caught up in yesterday and tomorrow that you can't
- 16:37Speaker 1: live in the present, which always sounds great on a
- 16:40Speaker 1: bumper sticker, but it's hard to apply in life, right.
- 16:45Speaker 1: I mean, you got to be connected to the past
- 16:47Speaker 1: because you're coming out of the past, and the past
- 16:49Speaker 1: affects the present, and you've got to be prepared for
- 16:51Speaker 1: the future, don't you So exactly what are you trying
- 16:54Speaker 1: to say, Paul, Well, it helps us to know that
- 16:58Speaker 1: the Greek tense here means perpse perpetually anxious, in a
- 17:01Speaker 1: state of perpetual anxiety. Anxiety does come with life, But
- 17:08Speaker 1: what Paul is advocating here as a life that is
- 17:12Speaker 1: not dominated or driven or consumed by anxiety. There is
- 17:20Speaker 1: another translation that helps us. One translation says, don't be
- 17:25Speaker 1: over anxious about anything. It's this life of perpetual anxiety,
- 17:32Speaker 1: this habit, this thought pattern of negative thoughts and anxious
- 17:36Speaker 1: thoughts that the Apostle Paul would like to address. Another
- 17:40Speaker 1: translation says, don't let anything in life leave you perpetually
- 17:45Speaker 1: in angst and breathless. I made that one up. I'm
- 17:51Speaker 1: not a Bible translator, but I think that's what the
- 17:53Speaker 1: Scripture is trying to say. Don't let anything in life
- 17:58Speaker 1: leave you perpetual, howy or out of breath, exhausted, or
- 18:06Speaker 1: in angst, in a sense of dread. I think worry
- 18:12Speaker 1: is a bit like natural glycerin. In small doses it's
- 18:16Speaker 1: actually good for your heart, but in large doses it
- 18:20Speaker 1: can cause an explosion. Worry in and of itself is
- 18:25Speaker 1: not a sin, but it can lead to sin. Mistreatments
- 18:29Speaker 1: thereof can cause us to engage in behavior that doesn't
- 18:33Speaker 1: honor God and doesn't solve the problem. That's why Scripture,
- 18:38Speaker 1: I think, has so much to say about anxiety. You
- 18:42Speaker 1: have any anxiety in your life, here's what Jesus says,
- 18:48Speaker 1: be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with
- 18:54Speaker 1: the anxieties. Of life. Are you laughing less than you
- 19:00Speaker 1: once Did you find your thoughts increasingly negative and critical?
- 19:07Speaker 1: Would those who know you best describe you as overly cautious?
- 19:13Speaker 1: Do you always assume something bad is going to happen?
- 19:16Speaker 1: Do you never enjoy good news because you know all
- 19:18Speaker 1: good news becomes bad news for fear of running out
- 19:22Speaker 1: of money? Are you less generous? Do you resent the
- 19:25Speaker 1: success of others? Would you, on many days rather stay
- 19:31Speaker 1: in bed than get up? Do you magnify the negative?
- 19:39Speaker 1: Do you diminish the positive? If given the chance, would
- 19:43Speaker 1: you avoid any interaction with human beings for the rest
- 19:46Speaker 1: of your life? If you answer yes to most of
- 19:52Speaker 1: those questions, then I've got a friend I want you
- 19:56Speaker 1: to meet. Actually, I've got some words that a friend wrote.
- 20:01Speaker 1: They feel like words of a friend because I've turned
- 20:05Speaker 1: to these words myself so many times over the years.
- 20:08Speaker 1: I would like to nominate this passage for the scripture
- 20:10Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I don't know where that place is,
- 20:13Speaker 1: but on the wall upon which they have hung John
- 20:16Speaker 1: three point sixteen, the Lord's Prayer and the twenty third
- 20:19Speaker 1: Psalm Someone needs to hang Philippians, Chapter four, verses four
- 20:24Speaker 1: through eight. I call it the anxiety cure. Can you
- 20:30Speaker 1: read it out loud with me as the words appear
- 20:32Speaker 1: on the screen. Rejoice in the Lord always again, I
- 20:38Speaker 1: will say, rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all men.
- 20:44Speaker 1: The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but
- 20:48Speaker 1: in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, and the
- 20:59Speaker 1: surpasses all all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
- 21:04Speaker 1: through Christ Jesus. Finally, Brethren, whatever things are true, whatever
- 21:10Speaker 1: things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure,
- 21:16Speaker 1: whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report.
- 21:27Speaker 1: Our plan is to unpack this passage phrase by phrase
- 21:30Speaker 1: over the next ten weeks. Could I encourage you to
- 21:35Speaker 1: read this passage every day for the next ten weeks.
- 21:41Speaker 1: We've equipped you with a little card. We've made it
- 21:44Speaker 1: small so it can go anywhere. I though you may
- 21:46Speaker 1: need to put on glasses to read the words. But
- 21:51Speaker 1: you can put it on a keychain. You can stick
- 21:54Speaker 1: it in a wallet. You can tie it on your shoes,
- 21:58Speaker 1: stick it, run your shoestring, throw it. You can tie
- 22:01Speaker 1: it around your neck. You can put it on a bracelet.
- 22:04Speaker 1: I don't care if you make an ear ring out
- 22:05Speaker 1: of it or a nose ring out of it, But
- 22:07Speaker 1: just put it where you can see it, and whenever
- 22:11Speaker 1: you sense that anxiety surfacing, pick up this passage. Let
- 22:16Speaker 1: the word of Scripture be the tool with which you
- 22:20Speaker 1: deal with anxiety. Rejoice in the Lord always. In fact,
- 22:25Speaker 1: i'd like to ask you to commit to read this
- 22:29Speaker 1: passage every day for the next ten weeks. If you commit,
- 22:33Speaker 1: would you nod do this? It's we got a nodding
- 22:36Speaker 1: monitor going on just to see it. Oh, if that
- 22:39Speaker 1: person's asleep, don't count here. Would you even be willing
- 22:46Speaker 1: to memorize this passage? Would you please consider placing this
- 22:54Speaker 1: passage in a permanent place in your heart by committing
- 22:58Speaker 1: it to memory. These words contain nothing less than God's
- 23:06Speaker 1: remedy to anxiety. It's as if He wrote a prescription
- 23:10Speaker 1: that included the words, here's what you need to rejoice.
- 23:14Speaker 1: You need gentleness. You need to remember the Lord is
- 23:16Speaker 1: at hand. You need to remember to pray about everything.
- 23:19Speaker 1: The peace of God will come your way. It will
- 23:21Speaker 1: guard your hearts and minds. God will help you win
- 23:25Speaker 1: the war on worry. Some of you have worried so
- 23:28Speaker 1: long in your life that you can't imagine life without worry.
- 23:31Speaker 1: There is a new day that awaits you, my friend,
- 23:35Speaker 1: a new day, a new chapter. It is not God's
- 23:38Speaker 1: will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It
- 23:42Speaker 1: is not It is not his will that you face
- 23:46Speaker 1: every day with dread and trepidation. It's not his will
- 23:50Speaker 1: that you go through life always running out of breath,
- 23:54Speaker 1: with your mind split between yesterday and tomorrow, not leaving
- 23:59Speaker 1: you any energy for today. Here is the word of
- 24:02Speaker 1: God to you, Jesus that I have told you this
- 24:06Speaker 1: so that you will have peace of mind and heart.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Here on this earth. You will have many trials and sorrows,
- 24:16Speaker 1: But what cheer up for I have overcome the world.
- 24:21Speaker 2: No.
- 24:22Speaker 1: God never promises a problem free life, but he does
- 24:25Speaker 1: promise to help us face our problems. This is the
- 24:29Speaker 1: message of the Book of Philippians. Specifically, it's the message
- 24:33Speaker 1: of this cure for anxiety. In Philippians Chapter four, Paul
- 24:37Speaker 1: uses four verses to give seven admonitions that lead to
- 24:41Speaker 1: one promise, the peace of God, which passes all understanding.
- 24:48Speaker 1: God is going to help you learn to face, not escape,
- 24:53Speaker 1: but a face the calamities of life under the guidance
- 24:58Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. You're going to learn to view
- 25:00Speaker 1: bad news through the protection and filter of God's sovereignty.
- 25:05Speaker 1: With Jesus as your tutor, you're going to learn to
- 25:09Speaker 1: discern between the lies of the devil and the truth
- 25:13Speaker 1: of Christ. And you're going to learn to tell yourself
- 25:17Speaker 1: the truth. You're going to learn, with God's help, to
- 25:20Speaker 1: talk yourself off the ledge to calm down to receive
- 25:24Speaker 1: his word. Anxiety comes with life, but it doesn't have
- 25:29Speaker 1: to master your life. And a new day awaits you
- 25:33Speaker 1: because God is with you. Dallas Willard once told the
- 25:36Speaker 1: story of a little boy who couldn't sleep, and so
- 25:39Speaker 1: he climbed into his dad's bed. Storm was raging outside,
- 25:43Speaker 1: and the boy was afraid. Still, the boy had trouble
- 25:46Speaker 1: falling asleep, and in the darkness, he asked his dad, Daddy,
- 25:51Speaker 1: is your face looking at me? And the father said yes.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Knowing that his father was looking at him, the little
- 26:02Speaker 1: boy could finally fall asleep. Dear friend, God is looking
- 26:09Speaker 1: at you, not with furled brow, not with an angry scowl.
- 26:14Speaker 1: But he is looking upon you with love, and he
- 26:18Speaker 1: is welcoming you into his presence. And because he is
- 26:22Speaker 1: looking upon you, you will in his arms find rest. Amen. Amen,
- 26:31Speaker 1: So Lord, this is your invitation to us to receive
- 26:36Speaker 1: the rest that comes from a careful, loving, kind father.
- 26:40Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord Father. We're very excited about this path
- 26:46Speaker 1: of peace. We're ready to give up our anxieties, to
- 26:49Speaker 1: cast all of our cares upon you, because we believe
- 26:52Speaker 1: that you do care about.
- 27:00Speaker 2: A a aa aa a a.
- 29:23Speaker 1: Loving you alone.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Feels so beautiful and yet it hurts the most.
- 29:39Speaker 3: You became my quiet sunrise, the dream I never dared
- 29:44Speaker 3: to say.
- 29:46Speaker 4: Every smile you gave so freely took my.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Breath a little away.
- 29:53Speaker 3: I held this love like fragile glass, so precious, soft
- 29:58Speaker 3: and true, but every bit inside my heart was.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Only reaching out to you.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Unspoken love is sweet and painful, like honey mixed with rain.
- 30:15Speaker 4: Let's end the whole.
- 30:16Speaker 3: By also sadly while it slowly breaks me. Loving you
- 30:23Speaker 3: from just one side, now leave my soul in silent blue.
- 30:29Speaker 3: Because the deeper that I fall along, the lonelier I do.
- 30:38Speaker 3: I can't blame my heart for choosing someone it could
- 30:43Speaker 3: never keep, So I smiled through hidden heartache.
- 30:48Speaker 5: Hell love you quietly.
- 30:51Speaker 4: Unspoken love.
- 30:53Speaker 3: He's sweet and painful, like.
- 30:56Speaker 5: Conie mixed with rain.
- 30:59Speaker 3: Let's tender old bow, so tightly.
- 31:03Speaker 5: Wally slowly breaks me, loving you from just one side.
- 31:09Speaker 4: Now leave my soul in silence. Poo cuse the deeper
- 31:14Speaker 4: that I follow.
- 31:17Speaker 5: The only I do.
- 31:36Speaker 2: Maybe loving you in.
- 31:38Speaker 5: Silence, this is the closest I can stay, though leaves
- 31:44Speaker 5: behind the sorrow that may never fast away. I spoken
- 31:54Speaker 5: Love's sweet and painful. I hay mixed with Rayne, a
- 32:01Speaker 5: tender whole bar hold so sightly Wally slowly breaks me, loving.
- 32:08Speaker 2: You from just one side.
- 32:10Speaker 4: Now leave my soul in silence, Because the deeper that
- 32:16Speaker 4: I follow, the lowly
- 32:23Speaker 3: Her to