Latest / Max Lucado Daily Sermons / Powerful Sermon Finding Calm in a Chaotic World- Minister Max Lucado
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- 0:01Speaker 1: War on worry. You can say goodbye to anxiety. You
- 0:07Speaker 1: can bid farewell to the threats. 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 surpasses all understanding will
- 1:02Speaker 1: guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Lord, we open our hearts now to a new
- 1:30Speaker 1: chapter in our lives in which we discover this peace
- 1:34Speaker 1: as described by your servant Paul that passes understanding. Forgive
- 1:41Speaker 1: the sins of the one who speaks. They are many.
- 1:43Speaker 1: And help us to see Jesus, just Jesus. Through Christ
- 1:49Speaker 1: we pray. And all the church said, It's a low-grade fear.
- 1:57Speaker 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 are
- 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 not
- 2:27Speaker 1: so much the sight of a grizzly bear but the
- 2:30Speaker 1: 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 fangs 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 naive 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 teeth,
- 3:57Speaker 1: they don't have girlfriends or boyfriends or friends? What if
- 4:00Speaker 1: someday they're standing on the street corner holding up a
- 4:03Speaker 1: cardboard sign that said, my parents never bought me braces?
- 4:08Speaker 1: What if? It's... It's a trepidation. It's a suspicion. It's
- 4:16Speaker 1: part chicken little and part Eeyore. The sky is falling
- 4:22Speaker 1: and it's falling disproportionately on top of me. It's anxiety.
- 4:30Speaker 1: What is anxiety? Anxiety is a free-floating sense of dread.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Anxiety is a free-floating, ill-defined sense of dread of things
- 4:49Speaker 1: that might happen sometime in the future. Fear, by contrast,
- 4:57Speaker 1: is an awareness of a concrete threat, a specific object,
- 5:05Speaker 1: an event, something that could threaten and does threaten to
- 5:09Speaker 1: attack you or hurt you. You fear failing the board
- 5:12Speaker 1: exams or not making the job deadline. You fear the
- 5:16Speaker 1: income tax payment or the possibility of no date for
- 5:19Speaker 1: the prom. That's fear. Anxiety is vague. It's distant. It's
- 5:26Speaker 1: not really logical. It's just that sense that something bad
- 5:30Speaker 1: always happens and it's about my turn. Fear results in
- 5:37Speaker 1: fight or flight. Anxiety results in gloom and doom. Fear
- 5:45Speaker 1: is the pulse rate that races when you see a
- 5:49Speaker 1: coiled rattlesnake next to the path. Anxiety is the decision
- 5:56Speaker 1: to never walk barefooted anywhere in any yard in any
- 6:00Speaker 1: part of the world because somewhere in the world there's
- 6:02Speaker 1: a rattlesnake you know. Fear and anxiety. Both are a
- 6:12Speaker 1: part of life. Both serve a function in life. But
- 6:15Speaker 1: fear and anxiety are different. Anxiety is a general angst
- 6:21Speaker 1: about life. It's just a general angst about life. In fact,
- 6:29Speaker 1: the word anxious has in its first syllable what? Angst.
- 6:36Speaker 1: come from the same source. So if you are anxious,
- 6:41Speaker 1: then you are full of angst, full of dread, full
- 6:46Speaker 1: of trepidation, full of fear. If you are anxious, then
- 6:52Speaker 1: you're going through life going shush, shush, shush. That's the
- 6:55Speaker 1: sound I make when I'm walking up the stairs. About
- 6:59Speaker 1: the 10th step, 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 howlies?
- 7:21Speaker 1: You ever heard that phrase? Howlies. He said, well, howlie
- 7:25Speaker 1: means out of breath. He said in the 1820s when
- 7:30Speaker 1: people immigrated to Hawaii, they came with such a rapid
- 7:34Speaker 1: pace and work ethic of establishing plantations and building seaports
- 7:39Speaker 1: that the Hawaiians gave them a nickname. They're always short
- 7:43Speaker 1: on breath. Anxiety will steal your breath. It'll steal your sleep.
- 7:49Speaker 1: It'll take your well-being. Anxiety leads to stiff necks, clenched jaws,
- 7:54Speaker 1: overactive and or inactive bowels. Anxiety can twist us into
- 8:01Speaker 1: emotional pretzels. It can make our eyes twitch, our blood
- 8:04Speaker 1: pressure rise, our armpits sweat. One doctor said, if you
- 8:08Speaker 1: want to really see the consequences of worry, just read
- 8:11Speaker 1: about half the ailments in a medical textbook. Anxiety ain't fun.
- 8:17Speaker 1: No wonder the wise man said, worry weighs a person down.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Chances are that you or someone you know has a
- 8:30Speaker 1: serious struggle with anxiety. According to the National Institute of
- 8:34Speaker 1: Mental Health, anxiety disorders are reaching an epidemic proportion. In
- 8:39Speaker 1: a given year, 17% of Americans will feel the effects
- 8:43Speaker 1: of a panic attack. That is to say, our chest
- 8:47Speaker 1: will tighten, we'll feel dizzy and lightheaded, we'll fear crowds
- 8:50Speaker 1: and avoid people. According to one research program, anxiety-related issues
- 8:56Speaker 1: are now the number one mental health problem among women today.
- 9:02Speaker 1: are the second problem among men, second only to drug
- 9:06Speaker 1: and alcohol abuse. The United States is now the most
- 9:10Speaker 1: anxious nation in the world. Reading from one researcher, stress-related
- 9:15Speaker 1: ailments cost our nation $ 300 billion every year in medical
- 9:19Speaker 1: bills and lost productivity, while the use of sedative drugs
- 9:23Speaker 1: keeps skyrocketing. Just between 1997 and 2004, Americans more than
- 9:29Speaker 1: doubled their spending on anti-anxiety medications like Xanax and Valium
- 9:35Speaker 1: from $ 900 million to $ 2. 1 billion. 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 a 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 more to the level of one
- 10:52Speaker 1: fifth that Americans do. And as one researcher said, when
- 10:58Speaker 1: these less anxious developing world citizens immigrate to the United States,
- 11:03Speaker 1: they tend to get just as anxious as Americans. Something
- 11:08Speaker 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: 17% of Americans can expect to experience a panic attack
- 11:22Speaker 1: during a given year. Guess what that number is south
- 11:25Speaker 1: of the border? In Mexico, a country that right now
- 11:31Speaker 1: has a reputation for violence. Anybody want to guess?
- 11:38Speaker 2: 6.6%.
- 11:41Speaker 1: People in Mexico are a third less anxious than people
- 11:44Speaker 1: north of the border. I want to go to Mexico.
- 11:51Speaker 1: And the news gets worse. I don't want to worry you.
- 11:59Speaker 1: But according to one UCLA research team, our college kids
- 12:02Speaker 1: are more stressed out and anxious than ever before. In
- 12:05Speaker 1: a study that involved more than 200,000 incoming freshmen, students
- 12:10Speaker 1: reported all-time lows in overall mental health and stability. As
- 12:16Speaker 1: Robert Leahy pointed out, the average high school kid today
- 12:20Speaker 1: has the same anxiety level as the average psychiatric patient
- 12:25Speaker 1: in the early 1950s. 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 wrapped 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 10 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. Sociologists
- 13:00Speaker 1: are telling us that in the last 30 years, our
- 13:03Speaker 1: world has seen more change than in the prior 300 years.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Can you relate to that? I was walking through a
- 13:12Speaker 1: hospital a couple of weeks ago, led by a volunteer
- 13:15Speaker 1: lady who knew I was lost, which I usually am.
- 13:19Speaker 1: candy striper type, but she was 85 years old. As
- 13:22Speaker 1: 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. We've seen world climate change. We've seen
- 14:03Speaker 1: the arrival of terrorism. ISIS has come to be a
- 14:07Speaker 1: part of our vocabulary. And we're hearing things more quickly
- 14:11Speaker 1: than our generations prior ever did. If there's an earthquake
- 14:15Speaker 1: in Australia or Nepal... Fifty years ago, we wouldn't have
- 14:19Speaker 1: known about it, perhaps ever if we did, not for
- 14:23Speaker 1: another week or two. Now we'll care about it. We'll
- 14:27Speaker 1: get alerts on our phone. We don't have time to process.
- 14:32Speaker 1: We're just inundated with world change, societal change, with news,
- 14:39Speaker 1: 24-hour news cycles, most of which are not positive. It's hard.
- 14:44Speaker 2: It's hard.
- 14:46Speaker 1: In addition to that, we have just all the regular
- 14:48Speaker 1: stuff that comes with being a human being. We get sick.
- 14:53Speaker 1: We get cranky. We struggle in jobs. We have health issues.
- 14:58Speaker 1: We're reminded daily that these bodies are getting weaker and older. Deanland,
- 15:03Speaker 1: my wife, came home the other day with an app.
- 15:06Speaker 1: An app. Saying, if you take a selfie and send
- 15:12Speaker 1: it in, it will guess your age. She was proud
- 15:19Speaker 1: because it guessed her 15 years younger than she is.
- 15:23Speaker 1: So I thought, well, I'll do it.
- 15:28Speaker 3: Duh.
- 15:30Speaker 1: I'm 60. It guessed that I was 68. I thought
- 15:35Speaker 1: there must be a mistake. I did it again. It
- 15:37Speaker 1: guessed I was 73. I did it one more time.
- 15:40Speaker 1: I was 78. I said, I'm not going to do
- 15:43Speaker 1: it again. It'll think I'm dead. Change coming from all angles.
- 15:51Speaker 1: It's enough to make a person anxious. And it's enough
- 15:59Speaker 1: to make us wonder, was the Apostle Paul kidding when
- 16:03Speaker 1: he 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've 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?
- 16:44Speaker 2: Right?
- 16:45Speaker 1: I mean, you've 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 perpetually anxious in a state
- 17:02Speaker 1: of perpetual anxiety. Anxiety does come with life. But what
- 17:08Speaker 1: Paul is advocating here is a life that is not
- 17:12Speaker 1: dominated or driven by are 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 perpetually howly 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 nitroglycerin. In small doses, it's actually
- 18:16Speaker 1: good for your heart. But in large doses, it can
- 18:21Speaker 1: cause an explosion. Worry in and of itself is not
- 18:25Speaker 1: a sin, but it can lead to sin. Mistreatments thereof
- 18:30Speaker 1: can cause us to engage in behavior that doesn't honor
- 18:34Speaker 1: God and doesn't solve the problem. That's why scripture, I think,
- 18:38Speaker 1: has so much to say about anxiety. You have any
- 18:43Speaker 1: anxiety in your life? Here's what Jesus says. Be careful
- 18:50Speaker 1: or your hearts will be weighed down with the anxieties
- 18:56Speaker 1: of life. Are you laughing less than you once did?
- 19:03Speaker 1: You find your thoughts increasingly negative and critical. Would those
- 19:07Speaker 1: who know you best describe you as overly cautious? Do
- 19:13Speaker 1: you always assume something bad is going to happen? Do
- 19:16Speaker 1: you never enjoy good news because you know all good
- 19:19Speaker 1: news becomes bad news? For fear of running out of money,
- 19:23Speaker 1: are you less generous? Do you resent the success of others?
- 19:29Speaker 1: Would you on many days rather stay in bed than
- 19:31Speaker 1: get up? Do you magnify the negative? Do you diminish
- 19:40Speaker 1: the positive? If given the chance, would you avoid any
- 19:44Speaker 1: interaction with human beings for the rest of your life?
- 19:51Speaker 1: If you answer yes to most of those questions, then
- 19:55Speaker 1: I've got a friend I want you to meet. Actually,
- 19:58Speaker 1: I've got some words that a friend wrote. They feel
- 20:02Speaker 1: like words of a friend because I've turned to these
- 20:05Speaker 1: words myself so many times over the years. I would
- 20:08Speaker 1: like to nominate this passage for the Scripture Hall of Fame.
- 20:12Speaker 1: I don't know where that place is, but on the
- 20:14Speaker 1: wall upon which they have hung John 3, 16, the
- 20:17Speaker 1: Lord's Prayer, and the 23rd Psalm, someone needs to hang
- 20:21Speaker 1: Philippians chapter 4, verses 4 through 8. I call it
- 20:26Speaker 1: the anxiety cure. Can you read it out loud with
- 20:31Speaker 1: me as the words appear on the screen? Rejoice in
- 20:35Speaker 1: the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice. Let your
- 20:41Speaker 1: gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and
- 20:50Speaker 1: supplication with thanksgiving. And the peace of God surpasses all
- 21:00Speaker 1: understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Our plan
- 21:27Speaker 1: is to unpack this passage phrase by phrase over the
- 21:31Speaker 1: next 10 weeks. Could I encourage you to read this
- 21:35Speaker 1: passage every day for the next 10 weeks? We've equipped
- 21:41Speaker 1: you with a little card. We've made it small so
- 21:44Speaker 1: it can go anywhere. I know you may need to
- 21:47Speaker 1: put on glasses to read the words. But you can
- 21:52Speaker 1: put it on a keychain. You can stick it in
- 21:54Speaker 1: a wallet. You can tie it on your shoes. run
- 21:59Speaker 1: your shoestring through it. You can tie it around your neck.
- 22:02Speaker 1: You can put it on a bracelet. I don't care
- 22:04Speaker 1: if you make an earring out of it or a
- 22:06Speaker 1: nose ring out of it, but just put it where
- 22:09Speaker 1: you can see it. And whenever you sense that anxiety surfacing,
- 22:14Speaker 1: pick up this passage. Let the word of scripture be
- 22:18Speaker 1: the tool with which you deal with anxiety. Rejoice in
- 22:23Speaker 1: the Lord always. In fact, I'd like to ask you
- 22:26Speaker 1: to commit. to read this passage every day for the
- 22:30Speaker 1: next 10 weeks. If you commit, would you nod? Do this.
- 22:35Speaker 1: We've got a nodding monitor going on just to see. Oh,
- 22:39Speaker 1: that person's asleep. Don't count him. Would you even be
- 22:45Speaker 1: willing to memorize this passage? Would you please consider placing
- 22:54Speaker 1: this passage in a permanent place in your heart By
- 22:58Speaker 1: committing it to memory. These words contain nothing less than
- 23:06Speaker 1: God's remedy to anxiety. It's as if he wrote a
- 23:09Speaker 1: prescription 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 said, 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. No,
- 24:22Speaker 1: God never promises a problem-free life, but he does promise
- 24:26Speaker 1: to help us face our problems. This is the message
- 24:29Speaker 1: of the book of Philippians. Specifically, it's the message of
- 24:33Speaker 1: this cure for anxiety in Philippians chapter 4. Paul uses
- 24:37Speaker 1: four verses to give seven admonitions that lead to one promise,
- 24:42Speaker 1: the peace of God, which passes all understanding. God is
- 24:48Speaker 1: going to help you learn to face problems. not escape,
- 24:53Speaker 1: but efface the calamities of life. Under the guidance of
- 24:58Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, you're going to learn to view bad
- 25:01Speaker 1: news through the protection and filter of God's sovereignty. With
- 25:05Speaker 1: Jesus as your tutor, you're going to learn to discern
- 25:10Speaker 1: between the lies of the devil and the truth of Christ.
- 25:15Speaker 1: And you're going to learn to tell yourself the truth.
- 25:18Speaker 1: You're going to learn, with God's help, Talk yourself off
- 25:21Speaker 1: the ledge to calm down, to receive his word. Anxiety
- 25:27Speaker 1: comes with life, but it doesn't have to master your life.
- 25:31Speaker 1: And a new day awaits you because God is with you.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Dallas Willard once told the story of a little boy
- 25:38Speaker 1: who couldn't sleep. And so he climbed into his dad's bed.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Storm was raging outside and the boy was afraid. Still,
- 25:45Speaker 1: the boy had trouble falling asleep. And in the darkness,
- 25:48Speaker 1: he asked his dad, Daddy, is your face looking at me?
- 25:56Speaker 1: And the father said yes. Knowing that his father was
- 25:59Speaker 1: looking at him, the little boy could finally fall asleep.
- 26:06Speaker 1: Dear friend, God is looking at you. Not with furrowed brow,
- 26:11Speaker 1: not with an angry scowl, but he is looking upon
- 26:15Speaker 1: you with love. And he is welcoming you Into his presence.
- 26:22Speaker 1: And because he is looking upon you. You will in
- 26:26Speaker 1: his arms. Find rest. Amen. Amen. So Lord this is
- 26:32Speaker 1: your invitation to us. To receive the rest that comes
- 26:37Speaker 1: from a careful. Loving kind father. Thank you Lord. Father
- 26:43Speaker 1: we're very excited. About this path of peace. We're ready
- 26:48Speaker 1: to give up our anxieties, to cast all of our
- 26:50Speaker 1: cares upon you because we believe that you do care
- 26:53Speaker 1: about us.
- 27:36Speaker 2: So so.
- 28:47Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks for watching guys! so Bye.
- 33:00Speaker 2: You don't have to stay close. As long as you're
- 33:07Speaker 2: somewhere out there. That's enough for me.
- 33:12Speaker 3: I don't need to hold you near me.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Don't need promises to keep. Just the thought that you
- 33:24Speaker 2: are breathing Somewhere in this world I see.
- 33:30Speaker 4: Even if I'm not beside you Even if you never
- 33:34Speaker 4: know There's a quiet kind of comfort Just in knowing
- 33:40Speaker 4: you still glow.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I don't need forever I just need you to exist.
- 33:55Speaker 4: You don't have to stay with me. You don't have
- 33:59Speaker 4: to feel the same.
- 34:02Speaker 3: Just as long as.
- 34:02Speaker 4: You're still out there calling softly through my days. You
- 34:09Speaker 4: don't have to look my way. You don't have to
- 34:13Speaker 4: be my home. It's enough to know you're living in
- 34:19Speaker 4: a world I'm not alone. I won't chase you through
- 34:26Speaker 4: the distance. Won't disturb your chosen life. I'll just keep
- 34:32Speaker 4: you in my silence like a star that shines at night.
- 34:39Speaker 4: Through the dark and through the blue. I still think
- 34:47Speaker 4: of you. You don't have to look my way.
- 34:56Speaker 2: You don't have to be my home.
- 34:58Speaker 4: It's enough to know you're living in.
- 35:01Speaker 2: A world I'm not alone. I don't need to be
- 35:34Speaker 2: your light I don't need to cross.
- 35:37Speaker 4: Your mind All I need is just the truth That
- 35:41Speaker 4: you're somewhere.
- 35:44Speaker 2: Still alive.
- 35:48Speaker 3: You don't have to stay with me You don't have
- 35:52Speaker 3: to feel the same Just as long as you're still
- 35:57Speaker 3: out there Calling softly through my days You don't have
- 36:02Speaker 3: to look my way You don't have to be my
- 36:07Speaker 3: home It's enough to know you're living
- 36:14Speaker 4: In a world I'm not alone.