Latest / Max Lucado Daily Sermons / Stamped with Gods Image- Minister Max Lucado
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Okay, stop me if you've heard this joke. The policeman
- 0:07Speaker 1: pulled over a car for going too slow on the
- 0:12Speaker 1: inter state. Yeah, not for going too fast, but for
- 0:16Speaker 1: going too slow.
- 0:18Speaker 2: He pulled him over.
- 0:19Speaker 1: He walked up to the side of the car and
- 0:21Speaker 1: he looked in and noticed that the car was occupied
- 0:24Speaker 1: by an elderly couple, And so he walked up to
- 0:27Speaker 1: the driver's side and he asked the gentleman. He said, sir,
- 0:31Speaker 1: you're going so slow it's dangerous. Why you're barely going
- 0:36Speaker 1: twenty miles an hour on the interstate And the elderly
- 0:40Speaker 1: man said, well, that's what the sign says, and he
- 0:43Speaker 1: pointed at a sign, and the policeman said, no, sir,
- 0:46Speaker 1: this is Interstate twenty. That's not the speed limit. You've
- 0:52Speaker 1: got the signs Confused. About that time, the policeman looked
- 0:56Speaker 1: through the car at the elderly man's wife, who was
- 1:00Speaker 1: bearing the signs of terror. Her eyes were open, her
- 1:04Speaker 1: hair was worn back, and she was holding on to
- 1:06Speaker 1: the dash, And the policeman said, sir, what's wrong with
- 1:10Speaker 1: your wife? He said, I'm not sure. We just got
- 1:13Speaker 1: off of farm to Market Road one seven seven. Sometimes
- 1:25Speaker 1: life gets a little frantic if you misread the signs.
- 1:31Speaker 1: We're talking about some of the great signs in scripture,
- 1:35Speaker 1: the promises of God. And I said that before we
- 1:40Speaker 1: begin each message, we would make a declaration.
- 1:42Speaker 2: And so I'd like to invite.
- 1:44Speaker 1: You to declare your belief and appreciation for the promises
- 1:48Speaker 1: of God by sitting up straight, put your shoulders back,
- 1:50Speaker 1: fill your lungs with air, and your heart's with hope.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Now I want you to say this like you mean it. Okay,
- 1:56Speaker 1: here we go. The words are on the screen. We
- 1:58Speaker 1: are building our lives on the promises of God because
- 2:03Speaker 1: his word is unbreakable, our hope is unshakable. We do
- 2:08Speaker 1: not stand on the problems of life or the pain
- 2:12Speaker 1: in life. Yes, Lord, we stand upon what you have
- 2:19Speaker 1: done for us. We want to be people of the promise,
- 2:25Speaker 1: people who build their lives upon your covenants with us. Father.
- 2:32Speaker 1: We don't know how much more we can take earthquakes, hurricanes,
- 2:38Speaker 1: conflict between world leaders, and then there's the personal challenges
- 2:44Speaker 1: that many faith. And yet Lord, we determine. We determine
- 2:48Speaker 1: today to stand upon the great and precious promises, reveal
- 2:54Speaker 1: them to us, and make us strong.
- 2:57Speaker 2: As a result.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Forgive our speaker, Father his sin so many and help
- 3:02Speaker 1: us to see Christ, just Christ through Christ.
- 3:05Speaker 2: We pray and all the church said.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Some time ago I videotaped a message for our church.
- 3:13Speaker 1: We recruited a film crew and went down to the Alamo.
- 3:17Speaker 1: We selected a park bench in front of the Shrine
- 3:20Speaker 1: of Texas Liberty and got to work. We set up
- 3:23Speaker 1: the equipment and we got busy. For workers managed the
- 3:29Speaker 1: video and the sight and the sound with lights and camera.
- 3:32Speaker 1: We must have looked important because people began to pause
- 3:37Speaker 1: and look over the shoulders of the crew. I sat
- 3:40Speaker 1: on the park bench, trying to collect my thoughts, and
- 3:44Speaker 1: I could sense that a crowd was beginning to form.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Who is that guy? What are they filming?
- 3:51Speaker 1: Finally, one woman's curiosity got the better of her, and
- 3:55Speaker 1: she yelled over the shoulders of the crew, Hey, buddy,
- 3:59Speaker 1: are you somebody important? Not a soul on earth hasn't
- 4:06Speaker 1: asked the same, not about a preacher on a park bench,
- 4:10Speaker 1: but about themselves. Am I somebody important? It's easy to
- 4:18Speaker 1: feel anything but important when the corporation sees you as
- 4:23Speaker 1: a number, when the boyfriend treats you like cattle, when
- 4:27Speaker 1: your ax takes your energy, or old age takes your dignity.
- 4:34Speaker 1: It's easy to feel unimportant. The next time you ask
- 4:39Speaker 1: that question, I wonder if I can encourage you to
- 4:41Speaker 1: keep in mind this great and precious promise from God
- 4:46Speaker 1: in the Book of Genesis, chapter one, in verse twenty six.
- 4:51Speaker 1: And then God said, let us make a mankind in
- 4:54Speaker 1: our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule
- 5:01Speaker 1: over the fish in the sea, and the birds in
- 5:04Speaker 1: the sky, over the livestalk, and all the wild animals,
- 5:07Speaker 1: and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Embedded in these words is this great promise, and that
- 5:16Speaker 1: is God made us to reflect the image of God.
- 5:25Speaker 1: God created us to be more like Him than anything
- 5:29Speaker 1: else He may. Nowhere do we read the words let
- 5:32Speaker 1: us make the ocean in our own image, or birds
- 5:36Speaker 1: in our likeness. The heavens reflect the glory of God.
- 5:39Speaker 1: That heavens do not contain the essence and the image
- 5:44Speaker 1: of God. Now, to be clear, no one is a God,
- 5:49Speaker 1: excepting their own delusion. But everyone carries within them some
- 5:56Speaker 1: of the communicable attributes of God. Love, wisdom, compassion, grace, kindness,
- 6:06Speaker 1: a longing for eternity. These are just some of the
- 6:10Speaker 1: attributes that set you apart from your pet goldfish or the.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Plants in your garden.
- 6:17Speaker 1: We are made in his image, the Bible says, and
- 6:23Speaker 1: in his likeness. Now these words self define in just
- 6:30Speaker 1: a few verses in Genesis chapter five and verse three,
- 6:34Speaker 1: when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he
- 6:38Speaker 1: had a son in his own likeness. There it is again,
- 6:42Speaker 1: in his own image, and he named him Seth. So
- 6:48Speaker 1: Seth bore the image and the likeness of his father Adam.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Maybe he had his father's curly hairs, father's dark eyes,
- 6:58Speaker 1: apart from having a bell button.
- 7:02Speaker 2: You have to think about that.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Seth was like Adam in many ways. You will have
- 7:08Speaker 1: to think about that once. The same is true of us.
- 7:12Speaker 1: We take after God in many ways. Listen, there is
- 7:19Speaker 1: no exception to this promise. Every man and woman, born
- 7:27Speaker 1: or preborn, rich or poor, urban or rural, is made
- 7:37Speaker 1: in the image of God. Now some people suppress this image,
- 7:42Speaker 1: others enhanced this image, but all were made in God's image.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Sin distorted this image, but it has not destroyed it.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Our moral purity has been tainted, our intellect is polluted
- 7:58Speaker 1: by foolish ideas. We have fallen prey to the elixir
- 8:02Speaker 1: of self promotion instead of God promotion. The image of
- 8:07Speaker 1: God is sometimes very difficult to discern. But do not
- 8:12Speaker 1: think for a moment. Do not think for a moment
- 8:16Speaker 1: that God has changed his plan or rescinded this promise.
- 8:20Speaker 1: He still creates people in his image to bear his
- 8:26Speaker 1: likeness and display his glory. The New Testament describes a
- 8:33Speaker 1: progressive work of God to shape us into his image.
- 8:37Speaker 1: As we fellowship with Him, as we worship him, as
- 8:42Speaker 1: we study his word, as we fellowship with his people,
- 8:47Speaker 1: as we obey his commands, as we seek to understand
- 8:51Speaker 1: and reflect his character, something wonderful begins. No, someone wonderful
- 8:59Speaker 1: begins to him. Ch God comes.
- 9:03Speaker 2: Out of us.
- 9:05Speaker 1: He comes out of us in the words that we say,
- 9:11Speaker 1: in the patience that we display, in the wisdom that
- 9:16Speaker 1: we share, in acts of unanticipated kindness. It is as
- 9:24Speaker 1: if God is scrubbing the smudge off of an old coin,
- 9:32Speaker 1: and in time a figure, a face begins to appear.
- 9:40Speaker 1: God's goal is simply this, to rub away anything that
- 9:44Speaker 1: is not of God, so that the inborn image of
- 9:48Speaker 1: God can be seen in us. This was the explanation
- 9:54Speaker 1: of the apostle Paul. He loved to talk about being
- 9:57Speaker 1: shaped into the image of God. He said in Colossians
- 10:02Speaker 1: three nine and ten, you have taken off your old
- 10:04Speaker 1: self with its practices, and put on the new self,
- 10:08Speaker 1: which is being renewed in knowledge, in the image.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Of its creator.
- 10:15Speaker 1: And then again two Corinthians three eighteen, we are being
- 10:20Speaker 1: transformed into his image with ever increasing glory, which comes
- 10:27Speaker 1: from the Lord, who is the spirit. You see. Pop
- 10:33Speaker 1: psychology is wrong when it tells you to look inside
- 10:37Speaker 1: yourself and find your value, and the magazines are wrong
- 10:42Speaker 1: when they suggest that you're only as good as you
- 10:45Speaker 1: are thin, muscular, pimple free, or perfumed. The movies mislead
- 10:53Speaker 1: you when they tell you and imply that your value
- 10:57Speaker 1: increases as your stamina, net worth, or intelligence does. And
- 11:05Speaker 1: preachers are wrong when they tell you to measure your
- 11:09Speaker 1: spirituality according to your acts of kindness, church attendant, self discipline,
- 11:15Speaker 1: or spirituality. According to the Bible, you are valuable simply
- 11:21Speaker 1: because God made you in his image. Period He cherishes
- 11:28Speaker 1: you because you bear a semblance to Him, and your
- 11:34Speaker 1: greatest assignment in life is to allow him to rub
- 11:38Speaker 1: off any smudge that doesn't reflect the image of God
- 11:44Speaker 1: and allow him to do the work he longs to do,
- 11:47Speaker 1: and that is to shape you into his image. In
- 11:52Speaker 1: medieval times, a priest assembled his church for a special service.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Come tonight, he told them, and hear a special sermon
- 12:02Speaker 1: about Jesus Christ. They came, but to their surprise, the
- 12:07Speaker 1: sanctuary was completely dark. No candle was lit. They found
- 12:14Speaker 1: their way into the sanctuary and found seats onto the pews.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Walking through the darkness, they looked around for any sign
- 12:24Speaker 1: of life. They did not see the priest, but soon
- 12:28Speaker 1: they heard him. He too, felt his way through the
- 12:32Speaker 1: sanctuary until he reached the very front, and there he
- 12:37Speaker 1: lit a candle, and he lifted the candle high enough
- 12:42Speaker 1: until it shed a light on the feet of the
- 12:48Speaker 1: crucifix that hung on the wall. And for a moment
- 12:52Speaker 1: he let the light fall on the pierced feet, and
- 12:56Speaker 1: then he lifted the candle higher until the light fell.
- 12:59Speaker 2: On the pierced side.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Then he took the light to the hands that were
- 13:05Speaker 1: nailed to the cross, and then as high as he
- 13:08Speaker 1: could lift the candle, he let the light fall upon
- 13:12Speaker 1: the bloody face of Christ and the crown of thorns.
- 13:16Speaker 1: And then he lowered the candle and blew it out
- 13:20Speaker 1: and the sermon was over. That is our assignment to
- 13:26Speaker 1: let our lives shed light upon Jesus Christ. That's our
- 13:32Speaker 1: highest call, is to allow the one who lives in
- 13:36Speaker 1: us to grow, until our very lives cast a light
- 13:42Speaker 1: upon Christ. Could I invite you to do something? Would
- 13:47Speaker 1: you let this truth? Would you let this truth find
- 13:52Speaker 1: its way into your heart? You are conceived by God
- 13:59Speaker 1: before you were conceived by your parents. You were loved
- 14:05Speaker 1: by God before you were ever thought of by a person.
- 14:10Speaker 1: You are not an accident. You are not a fluke
- 14:16Speaker 1: of nature. You're not a consequence of evolution. And you
- 14:23Speaker 1: are not defined by the number of pounds you weigh,
- 14:26Speaker 1: the number of followers you have, the car you drive,
- 14:31Speaker 1: or the clothing you wear. CEO or unemployed doesn't matter.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Hot list or not list doesn't matter, Blue blood or
- 14:44Speaker 1: orphaned doesn't matter. High IQ or low IQ does not matter.
- 14:50Speaker 1: First string or benchwarmer doesn't matter. You are being made
- 14:57Speaker 1: in God's image. Print that on your resume, put that
- 15:03Speaker 1: on a business card, put that on your office door.
- 15:08Speaker 1: You are a diamond, You are a rose, you are
- 15:11Speaker 1: a jewel, and you have been purchased.
- 15:14Speaker 2: By the blood of Christ.
- 15:17Speaker 1: For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew
- 15:24Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good
- 15:27Speaker 1: things He planned for us long ago. In the eyes
- 15:33Speaker 1: of God, you are worth dying for. You tell that
- 15:38Speaker 1: to the person who looks back at you from a mirror.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Let that truth find its way into your heart. Also,
- 15:50Speaker 1: would you let this truth define the way you see
- 15:56Speaker 1: other people? The Apostle Paul said, our firm decision is
- 16:05Speaker 1: to work from this focused center. One man died for everyone.
- 16:12Speaker 1: That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone
- 16:17Speaker 1: in his death so that everyone could also be included
- 16:22Speaker 1: in his life, a resurrection life, far better life than
- 16:28Speaker 1: people ever lived on their own.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Look at this.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Because of this decision, we don't evaluate people by what
- 16:38Speaker 1: they have.
- 16:41Speaker 2: Or how they look.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Would you let this truth define the way you see people.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Every person you see was created by God to bear
- 16:54Speaker 1: His image and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
- 17:05Speaker 1: This means that all people, all people deserve to be
- 17:11Speaker 1: seen for who they were intended to be, and that
- 17:15Speaker 1: is image.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Bearers of God.
- 17:21Speaker 1: We live in a hostile, trigger happy society. We seem
- 17:27Speaker 1: to have lost the capability of having an honest disagreement
- 17:33Speaker 1: with one another. News broadcasts and talk shows are making
- 17:39Speaker 1: a living out of teaching us how to be tacky, disrespectful, arrogant,
- 17:47Speaker 1: and mean. I believe that our society is hungry for
- 17:53Speaker 1: a quorum of people who will believe what God teaches,
- 18:00Speaker 1: and that is, every person, even the person with whom
- 18:04Speaker 1: you disagree, is a person worthy of dignity and respect.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Would you be that person? Would you be the person
- 18:18Speaker 1: who this week refuses to put people in pigeonholes. The
- 18:23Speaker 1: person who checks you out at the grocery store is
- 18:26Speaker 1: a human being. The person who gives you your paycheck
- 18:33Speaker 1: is not a source of income. That's a human being.
- 18:38Speaker 1: The kid who sets next to you in the class
- 18:40Speaker 1: is not just a kid. That's a human being. God's idea.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Can you imagine the impact that this promise from Genesis
- 18:54Speaker 1: one would have upon the society that believed it. Can
- 18:58Speaker 1: you imagine the impact this promise would have.
- 19:02Speaker 2: Upon the people who believed.
- 19:04Speaker 1: That every single person within the boundaries of their borders
- 19:08Speaker 1: was shaped by God, dreamed up by God, and is
- 19:13Speaker 1: asked to be the image of God. What civility it
- 19:18Speaker 1: would engender, what kindness it would foster? Racism will not
- 19:24Speaker 1: flourish when people believe that their neighbor bears the image
- 19:28Speaker 1: of God. The fire of feuds will have no fuel
- 19:34Speaker 1: when people believe that, yes, even their adversaries are God's idea.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Will a man abuse a woman, not if he believes
- 19:45Speaker 1: that she bears a divine spark. Will a boss neglect
- 19:50Speaker 1: and employee not if she believes that every human being
- 19:56Speaker 1: deserves to be heard and deserves respect. Will society right
- 20:02Speaker 1: off the preborn, the indigent, the mentally ill, the elderly,
- 20:11Speaker 1: the inmate on death row.
- 20:14Speaker 2: The refugee.
- 20:17Speaker 1: No, not if we believe, truly believe that every human
- 20:23Speaker 1: being is God's idea and he has no bad ideas.
- 20:32Speaker 1: Steve Goodier tells a great story about a boy named Kevin.
- 20:37Speaker 1: He struggled with schoolwork, and what came easier for others
- 20:40Speaker 1: came very difficult for him.
- 20:42Speaker 2: He had trouble learning.
- 20:43Speaker 1: His ABC's, he couldn't compete in schoolyard races. But Kevin
- 20:49Speaker 1: had away with people. He had a bright smile and
- 20:53Speaker 1: a big heart, and he had a lot of friends.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Goodier tells about the time that Kevin's pastor decided that
- 21:01Speaker 1: their church should have a kid's or a boy's basketball
- 21:05Speaker 1: team and join the Church League. Well, Kevin signed up
- 21:11Speaker 1: and he soon became a favorite player on the team,
- 21:16Speaker 1: but he had trouble playing basketball. He practiced hard, and
- 21:20Speaker 1: while the other boys worked at dribbling and shooting legups, well,
- 21:25Speaker 1: Kevin's all he could do was lunge the ball.
- 21:29Speaker 2: At the basket.
- 21:32Speaker 1: He had a special spot near the free throw line
- 21:35Speaker 1: that was reserved just for him in practice. After practice,
- 21:39Speaker 1: he threw and threw, and on occasion the ball would
- 21:44Speaker 1: go in and Kevin would raise both of his arms
- 21:47Speaker 1: in triumph, and he would shout and.
- 21:50Speaker 2: All the other players would applaud.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Can I read just about three paragraphs in the way
- 22:00Speaker 1: Goudier describes the final game of the season. At the
- 22:05Speaker 1: end of the season, the boys played in the Church's
- 22:08Speaker 1: League's Tournament. The Church League's Tournament, they hadn't won a
- 22:12Speaker 1: game all year. As the last placed team, they drew
- 22:16Speaker 1: the unfortunate spot of playing against the best team, a
- 22:19Speaker 1: team that hadn't lost all year. Game day arrived and
- 22:25Speaker 1: both teams played their best, but the game went as expected.
- 22:29Speaker 1: Near the end of the last quarter, Kevin's team stood
- 22:32Speaker 1: nearly thirty points behind. It was then that one of
- 22:37Speaker 1: the boys called a timeout. Coach. He said, this is
- 22:40Speaker 1: our last game, and Kevin has never made a basket
- 22:43Speaker 1: in a game. I think we should let him make
- 22:46Speaker 1: a basket. The team agreed. Kevin was instructed to stand
- 22:52Speaker 1: at his place near the free throw line and wait.
- 22:56Speaker 1: He was told that he would be given the ball
- 22:59Speaker 1: and when he was he should shoot. Kevin was ecstatic.
- 23:04Speaker 1: He ran to the floor and waited. When the ball
- 23:07Speaker 1: was passed to him, he shot and missed. Number seventeen
- 23:11Speaker 1: from the other team snatched the rebound, dribbled down the court,
- 23:14Speaker 1: and made an easy basket. But a moment later Kevin
- 23:17Speaker 1: got the ball again. He shot and missed again. Number
- 23:21Speaker 1: seventeen repeated his performance, scoring two more points. Kevin shot
- 23:26Speaker 1: a third and a fourth time with the same result.
- 23:30Speaker 1: But slowly the other team seemed to figure out what
- 23:34Speaker 1: was going on, and the next time they snatched the rebound,
- 23:37Speaker 1: a boy through the ball to Kevin. He shot and missed.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Now every rebound came to him, and he threw and
- 23:48Speaker 1: threw toward the basket. Time was running down and Kevin
- 23:52Speaker 1: still had not scored. Both teams circled the boy by
- 23:56Speaker 1: this time, and all of the players were shouting yeah,
- 24:00Speaker 1: then cav Then the crowd took up the chant. Soon
- 24:05Speaker 1: everyone in the gym was shouting Kevin's name. The coach
- 24:10Speaker 1: was sure that time must have run out. The game
- 24:13Speaker 1: had to be over. He glanced at the official clock.
- 24:16Speaker 1: It stopped, and it was stopped at four point three seconds.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Even the timekeepers joined the mania and stood by the table,
- 24:27Speaker 1: shouting with the crowd. Kevin, Kevin. Kevin shot and shot,
- 24:34Speaker 1: and finally the ball went in his arms, sprang up
- 24:38Speaker 1: in the air, and he shouted, I won, I won.
- 24:44Speaker 2: He had scored.
- 24:46Speaker 1: His team escorted him off the court. The clock ticked down,
- 24:50Speaker 1: and the game was over. That day, an undefeated team
- 24:55Speaker 1: retained their perfect record. Buddy one, everybody, every person, without exception,
- 25:12Speaker 1: It's valuable in the eyes of our blessed creator. We
- 25:21Speaker 1: parents and grandparents get this, don't we. Did you know
- 25:25Speaker 1: that my daughter Jenna is expecting our second grandchild. I
- 25:31Speaker 1: do not know the child's gender, but I already love
- 25:37Speaker 1: him her He She has done nothing for me, not
- 25:43Speaker 1: brought me coffee, not called me Papa, not done anything,
- 25:47Speaker 1: but I already love him her. There's nothing I wouldn't
- 25:52Speaker 1: do for him her, and that is not hyperbole. Why
- 26:01Speaker 1: because she has a tiny bit of Me within him her,
- 26:11Speaker 1: not much, I know that, but just a tiny bit.
- 26:17Speaker 1: And because of who he she is, I cherished the
- 26:23Speaker 1: child already. God loves you with an inexpressible and inextinguishable love.
- 26:36Speaker 1: Why not because of what you have done, but because
- 26:42Speaker 1: of who, because of whose you are. You were made
- 26:51Speaker 1: in the image of God. Someone called you a failure. Wrong.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Someone wrote off is a lost cause.
- 27:01Speaker 2: Wrong.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Someone told you that you outsind the love of God. Wrong.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Someone told you that you're not worthy to be a
- 27:09Speaker 1: human being.
- 27:10Speaker 2: You let them.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Take that lie back to Hell where it came because
- 27:15Speaker 1: of the truth of the matter is you were made
- 27:18Speaker 1: by God. You are loved by God, and that promise
- 27:23Speaker 1: has not been rescinded, and that plan has not changed. Heavenly, Father,
- 27:31Speaker 1: grant police that we could receive this truth down deep
- 27:35Speaker 1: in our heart, and that this truth would off set
- 27:41Speaker 1: the mistreatment, the abuse, the neglect, the anger, the hostility,
- 27:47Speaker 1: whatever we've endured that would dare to suggest to us
- 27:51Speaker 1: that were anything but your masterpieces. And Father, we pray
- 27:56Speaker 1: that you would help us to see people the way
- 27:59Speaker 1: you see people, as cherished children of God, who, like
- 28:07Speaker 1: all of us are struggling to find their way. Grant
- 28:11Speaker 1: that we can treat every human being with dignity and respect.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Through Christ, we pray and all the Church said, Amena, you.
- 31:33Speaker 3: Know you don't have to stay close. As long as
- 31:45Speaker 3: there's somewhere out there. That's enough for me.
- 31:54Speaker 4: I don't need to hold you near me, don't need
- 31:58Speaker 4: promises to keep just the thought that.
- 32:02Speaker 5: You are breathing somewhere in this world I see.
- 32:08Speaker 4: Even if I'm not beside you, even if you never know,
- 32:14Speaker 4: there's a quiet kind of.
- 32:16Speaker 5: Comfort just in knowing you still glow. I don't need forever,
- 32:28Speaker 5: I just need you to exist.
- 32:33Speaker 4: You don't have to.
- 32:34Speaker 6: Stay with me. You don't have to feel the same,
- 32:40Speaker 6: just as long as you're still out there.
- 32:43Speaker 4: Calling softly through man days.
- 32:46Speaker 5: You don't have to love my way.
- 32:50Speaker 6: You don't have to be in my home.
- 32:53Speaker 4: It's enough to know where you're living in a world
- 32:58Speaker 4: I'm not alone. I won't chase it through the distance,
- 33:06Speaker 4: won't disturb your chosen life.
- 33:10Speaker 5: I'll just keep you.
- 33:11Speaker 4: In my silence, like a star that shines at night.
- 33:17Speaker 5: Through the darkened through the booth.
- 33:24Speaker 6: I still think of you. You don't have to stay
- 33:30Speaker 6: with me you don't have.
- 33:32Speaker 2: To feel the same.
- 33:35Speaker 6: It's just as long as you're still out there, calling
- 33:39Speaker 6: softly through my days. You don't have to look my way.
- 33:45Speaker 6: You don't have to be in my home. It's enough
- 33:50Speaker 6: to know you're living in a world. I'm not alone.
- 34:10Speaker 5: I don't need to be all late. I don't need
- 34:14Speaker 5: to cross your mind. All I need is.
- 34:17Speaker 4: Just the truth that you're somewhere, still alive. You don't
- 34:26Speaker 4: have to stay.
- 34:28Speaker 6: With me, you don't have to feel the same.
- 34:33Speaker 1: Just as long as.
- 34:34Speaker 6: You're still ap calling softly through my days. You don't
- 34:40Speaker 6: have to look my way. You don't have to be
- 34:45Speaker 6: my home. It's enough to know you're living.
- 34:52Speaker 2: In the world.
- 34:53Speaker 1: I'm not alone. Yeah,