VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Rediscover Catholic Celebration

39.33 minutes
October 12th, 2013

MATTHEW KELLY:
Thank you, I appreciate it. How are you all today? We'll see. How good was Eliot Morris? I get to
see Eliot almost every Saturday of the year. He and I travel together. We do these
Saturday retreats in parishes around the country. He's just phenomenal talent and I hope that
you will take the time to get to know his work a lot more.

It's great to be here today. There's been a lot of dreaming and a lot of planning that went into
today, and I think anytime you get 5,000 Catholics together, something great is going to
happen. Yes or yes?

Jesus was walking down the road one day with his disciples and he asked them two questions.
Now anytime God asks a question, you best sit up and take notice you're about to learn
something. It doesn't happen that often, but occasionally we're reading the Bible and God
actually asks a question, which is a real learning moment.

The first time it happens in the Bible is Genesis, in chapter three. Adam and Eve are in the
garden and God shows up and says, "Where are you?" It's an interesting question because the
person asking the question already has all the answers to every question. It's a little bit like
when your kids come home; you say, "Where have you been?" You're not asking because you
want to know, you're asking because you want them to know that you already know.

In the same way, God came into the garden and said to Adam, "Where are you" not because
God didn't know where Adam was, but God wanted Adam to know where Adam was. We have
this same experience in the Gospels. Jesus is walking down the road one day with his disciples
and he asks them two questions. The first question he asks them is "Who do people say that I
am?" The disciples say, "Well some say you're John the Baptist back from the dead and others
say you're Elijah, and some say you're one of the great prophets." Then, Jesus turns to them
and says, "And who do you say that I am?"

I call that the Jesus question. Everyone has to answer the Jesus question. Christian, non-
Christian, everyone has to answer the Jesus question sooner or later in their lives. Not
answering the question is answering the question. Jesus turns to his disciples and says, "Okay,
but who do you say that I am?" And even as you're reading the scriptures, you can sort of get
the sense that was a bit of an awkward moment for the disciples. Some looking at each other, "I
don't know, was that a trick question?" "You take this one, Peter." Of course, Peter steps up
and says, "You're the Christ. You're the Son of the living God."

Now, if Jesus showed up here this afternoon after the break, and he said to Jeff, "Jeff, can I
speak to the people for a couple of minutes." And Jeff said, "All right Jesus, but just a couple.
We've got a schedule here to keep." And Jesus stood up here before us this afternoon and said,
"Listen, I've got two questions for you. Question number one: 2013, modern-day America, who
do people say that I am?" We'd have to tell him. We'd have to tell him. We'd have to tell him,
"You know what Jesus? Most people just want to reduce you to a nice guy. And not THE nice
guy, but just one of the nice guys. There's lots of nice guys, and Jesus is one of the nice guys."

That's tragic, isn't it? That our culture, our society wants to reduce Jesus to just a nice guy. I
think that if Jesus said, "Well who do you think that I am?" and you said, "Well, you're a nice
guy Jesus," Jesus would probably slap you. Okay, he wouldn't because he's non-violent. But I
tell you what, he would go temple. Because Jesus didn't claim to be a nice guy. I think to reduce
Jesus to a nice guy is one of the tragedies of secularism and of modern culture. You know, when
it comes to the other major world religions, the other major world religions, for the most part,
believe that Jesus was either a great teacher or a great prophet. Which sounds nice, doesn't it?
It sounds accommodating. It sounds very tolerant. The only problem is that Jesus didn't claim to
be a great teacher or a great prophet.

Who did Jesus claim to be? He claimed to be the Son of God. If he isn't the Son of God, he's not
a great prophet, he's not a great teacher, he is the biggest liar in the history of the world. So
let's be clear about that. If he isn't actually who he claimed to be, it's not like you can say,
"Well, I tell you what. Jesus was really confused about that Messiah business, but let's give him
a consolation prize and make him a great prophet." These things are incongruent. We've got to
start thinking about these things on a deeper level. These things are incongruent.

It sounds nice and it sounds friendly and it sounds accommodating and it sounds tolerant. Don't
get me started on the tolerance thing. I think that's another speech. But let me just say one
thing. No seriously, let me just say one thing because I think it clears the whole thing up. You
don't have to tolerate things that are good, do you? You don't sit down to a great meal and say,
"What a fabulous meal! I'll tolerate it." You don't come back from a great vacation and say, "Oh,
we had a fabulous vacation! I tolerated it for 10 days. I just tolerated it." You don't have to
tolerate good things. Tolerance is the ultimate virtue in secular society today; the ultimate
virtue of secularism. We've got to start thinking about these things on a deeper level.

The other major world religions believe that Jesus was a great teacher or a great prophet, only
he didn't claim to be a great teacher or great prophet, he claimed to be the Son of God. If he
isn't actually the Son of God, then he perpetrated the biggest fraud in human history. The
biggest fraud in human history. So, we're left with the reality that Jesus actually is who he
claimed to be.

C.S. Lewis said, "You've only got three choices: he's either a liar, a lunatic, or he is actually who
he claimed to be." I don't think it takes that long to get into it, to realize that he is actually who
he claims to be. Once you realize that, then everything changes. Everything changes when we
truly encounter Jesus. Everything changes when we really discover who Jesus is. Once we
discover that he is actually who he claimed to be, the Gospels change from being another
inspiring book to being the inspired works, the inspired Word of God. Then everything changes.
Why? Because words have value based on who speaks them. If you've got a friend and that
friend is always telling lies to you and that person tells you something, you'll just ignore it,
right? You'll think, "Oh, they're always telling me lies, I don't know what to believe." Words
have value based on who speaks them. Now, on the other hand, let's say you've got a really
good friend who you love and you trust and respect, because they are a man or a woman of
character or virtue. That person says something to you that you violently disagree with, that
challenges you to change your life in a deep way; you will listen to that person in a different
way, because words have value based on who speaks them. Because you love and trust them
and respect them as people of virtue and character, you'll hear them in a different way. So the
Gospels have this real power, credible power, that very often is untapped in our lives.

Many people, around New Years, decided to do New Year’s resolutions. Did anyone do a New
Year’s resolution this year? Not too many New Year’s resolutions. You've failed so many times,
you think, "No, no New Year’s resolution this year." One of the most popular New Year’s
resolutions, the most popular New Year’s resolution is to lose weight. But one of the most
popular New Year’s resolutions is to read the Bible. "This is the year I'm going to read the
Bible," people say to themselves. So right around now, usually in October, people go out and
they buy a new Bible because the old one didn't work. They go out, they buy a new Bible, and
they bring it home. They don't start in October, because it's a New Year's resolution. So they
wait, they actually wait two and a half months until the first of January.

First of January, they take out that new Bible and they get started. January is great. You've got
Genesis, so many rich, great stories. Then you've got Exodus. They're fine until about the
middle of April. They're in Leviticus, they want to shoot themselves. They're thinking, "What on
earth is going on here?" Here's the thing: the Word of God has the power to transform our
lives. Now, sometimes there's these big intellectual arguments about why don't people read
the Bible more. As far as I'm concerned, it's an easy answer to that question. People don't read
the Bible more because the Word of God has the power to transform our lives. The truth is we
don't want our lives transformed. If we're honest with each other, we don't really want our
lives transformed.

We want some tweaking. Seriously, we want some tweaking, but transformation? No, no, no,
no thank you, God. We avoid the Word of God, because the Word of God has the power to
transform our lives. And very often when we pray, we pray for tweaking, don't we? "Dear God,
please tweak this." "Dear God, please tweak that." "Please tweak my husband." "And tweak
him again." "And tweak my children and tweak my boss and tweak my colleagues." We pray for
tweaking. I don't know if you've noticed, but God doesn't answer many tweaking prayers.
Sometimes we'll pray over and over and over for tweaking. We think, "Why doesn't God answer
my prayer?"

The reason is because God is not in the business of tweaking. God is in the business of
transformation. The truth is many of us have never really prayed a prayer of transformation.
Many of us have never really come to God and said, "All right God, everything is on the table.
Transform me. Transform me, transform my marriage, transform my personal finances,
transform my health, transform my family, transform my career. Transform me and my life,
God." It's a hard prayer to pray. If you're with me say "Uh huh."

See, I had to come up with a new one because everybody's been stealing my "Yes or yes." If
you're with me, say "Uh huh."

It's a hard prayer to pray, that prayer of transformation. Man, that's a difficult prayer. I've been
talking a lot in all we do at Dynamic Catholic, about game changes. I believe that this is a
moment where we need game changes in the church. And this is what I know for sure: if the
Catholic Church needs game changes, then every diocese and archdiocese needs game changes.
And if every archdiocese and diocese needs game changes, then every parish needs game
changes. And if every parish needs game changes, then every Catholic needs game changes. We
can be most effective when we focus on our main point of influence. Our main point of
influence is ourselves.

You want to have most impact for God? You want to have most impact for the church? You
want to have most impact in the world? The question you have to ask yourself is how is God
calling you to transform your life right now. Not the person next to you. Not your spouse, not
your kids, not your friends, not your pastor, not your boss, not your colleagues, but you. The
truth is, I think when we face that question we realize that God is interested in transforming
our lives in a really powerful way.

I'm just going to give you one game changer today. As we come to the end of this Year of Faith,
we begin this new journey in our lives. I want to encourage you and challenge you to take out
your Bible, pick up the Word of God and start with the Gospels. Read them over and over for a
whole year. 15 minutes a day, over and over for a whole year. Allow the life and teachings of
Jesus Christ to sink deeply into your life so that we can once again discover the real Jesus.
Because I think our culture is trying to pass off some sort of plaster cast candy coated Jesus. The
truth is, this plaster cast candy coated Jesus is really easy to ignore.

That's why the world is ignoring the Jesus we're presenting. Because the plaster cast candy
coated Jesus is really, really, really easy to ignore. But once you get into the scriptures, once
you really get into the Gospels and discover and rediscover the life and teachings of Jesus
Christ, I think the one thing you're going to discover is that Jesus was a radical. Jesus was a
radical. His life was radical. His example was radical. His love was radical. His teachings were
radical. His teachings were radical two thousand years ago, and guess what? They're radical two
thousand years later. There's any number of examples of that as you read through the Gospels.

Let's take a look at maybe, one. Jesus, in Matthew's gospel says, "Love your enemy and pray for
them." Love your enemy and pray for your enemy. and that was a radical teaching 2,000 years
ago. What was the teaching before that? Does anyone remember? That's right, an eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth. Jesus comes along and says, "No more vengeance. Enough with the
revenge. Love your enemy, pray for them." And when Father gets up to read the Gospel on
Sunday, and we start reading that Gospel we think, "Oh yeah, I've heard that one. Hope he's got
a good homily."
But what are we missing right there? Right there in that reading, we're witness to one of the
great moral/ethical intersections in history of the world. Jesus says all right, we're taking a right
turn here, humanity. No more vengeance, no more eye for an eye or tooth for a tooth. We're
taking a right turn here, humanity. From now on, we're going to love our neighbor and we're
going to pray for them. It's a radical teaching 2,000 years later. It was a radical teaching 2,000
years ago.

I think one of the beautiful things about Catholicism is the Mass. Massively misunderstood, but
I think when you delve into it there's just genius there. One of the most beautiful things about
the Mass, part of the genius of the Mass is how we pray for the whole world throughout the
course of the Mass. If you take the Mass apart, if you dissect the Mass and you look at all the
people and all the groups of people that we pray for throughout the course of the Mass it's
quite extraordinary. Then, you think about the idea that right now at this very moment our
family, the Catholic Church, the biggest family in the world, is praying for the whole world. In
thousands of places, all around the world, wherever the Mass is being prayed right now at this
very moment.

It's quite extraordinary. Then, we have the prayers of the faithful. We have the petitions. We
have that moment where we localize our prayer, where we pray for the sick. We pray for the
little bit sick, the almost sick, the very sick, the partially sick. We pray for the dead, we pray for
the almost dead. We pray for the the hungry, the lonely, the poor, the depressed, the leaders,
the followers. We pray for everybody. And I travel quite a bit so I visit a lot of churches. But I
have to say, in a decade between September 11 and the death of Osama bin Laden, I never
heard a prayer in any of our churches for Osama bin Laden. But that, my friends, is the gospel.
And it's uncomfortable. Yes or yes?

It's uncomfortable, and it is radical. It challenges us to the core. If your priest had ever gotten
up and said, "We're going to offer Mass today for Osama bin Laden,” what kind of reaction do
you think he might have got? People would've been walking out. There'd be letters to the
editor, letters to the archbishop. The media would be there before Mass ended. It's radical but
that, my friends, is the gospel. There's a thousand examples of that, a thousand examples of
that throughout the four Gospels.

I have this exercise I do at church on Sunday. After Father gets up and reads the Gospel, or the
deacon. Sometimes I forget the deacons and they beat me up in the parking lot afterwards. I
have this exercise I do at church on Sunday. After the priest or the deacon reads the Gospel I
ask myself this question: if I just lived this one Gospel reading 100%, so not the whole Gospels,
not the whole Bible, not all of church teaching, not the whole catechism. But if I just lived this
one reading 100%, how much would my life change? The answer, every single Sunday: radically.

My life would change radically. If I just lived one Sunday reading 100%, my life would change
radically. You know what that shows me? You know what that tells me? You know what that
teaches me? That teaches me that there is a gap between my life and the Gospel. There's a gap
between my life and the Gospel, and it's a big gap. It's a big gap. But here's the problem. Most
of us think we're pretty good Christians. Seriously, most people think they're pretty good
Christians. We're in a culture now where many people think that non-Christian people are
pretty good Christians. You hear people say all the time, "Oh, she's not Christian but she's one
of the best Christians I've ever met." What the heck does that say about Christians?

84% of Americans believe they are excellent drivers. 84% of Americans believe they are
excellent drivers. Now, I think you and I have enough experience on the roads to recognize that
that is a monumental case of self-delusion. But we do the same thing with our Christianity.
Most people think they're pretty good Christians. Compared to what? Not compared to the
Gospel. Not compared to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Compared to what? Compared
to how bad things are getting in our society? Compared to the neighbor next door who sits out
back all day with no shirt on, doing shots of tequila and shooting squirrels with his BB gun?
Maybe, compared to him, you're a pretty good Christian.

But compared to what? Because we tend to find a point of reference that suits ourselves. Every
Sunday when the priest or the deacon gets up to read that Gospel, Jesus blows that point of
reference away and says, "No, no, here's the point of reference. Here's the point of reference.
This is what I want you to be thinking about.” Then we go way back out into the world, right?
Trying to have our marriages work and trying to raise our kids in a responsible way, work on our
careers, and manage our personal finances and our health and well-being. We've got all this
stuff going on, and yet there's something inside of us that says, "Hold on a minute, you're
missing something, and the something you’re missing is really important."

I've got three little kids now. I've got Walter and he's about three and a half, and I've got Isabel,
she's two. And then my wife and I have got a newborn, baby Harry, who's three months old. It's
amazing; kids just teach you so much. But I remember when my son was about 18 months old.
My wife was putting him to be one night, and I was sitting in the kitchen. We've got one of
those monitors so we can see him and we can hear him. She was putting him to bed and she
read his story to him and then she did his prayers with him and she put him in his crib and
tucked him in and kissed him goodnight.

As she was leaving, she got to the door, I'm sitting in the kitchen and I see my little boy say to
Meggie, "Mommy, I have something to tell you." Of course, my wife turns around and asks him
what he has to tell her and he said, 'Mommy, I'm a very happy boy." I’m sitting there like,
"Dude, you're 18 months old, you don't know what you're talking about." But here's the thing,
he does. You open the catechism, chapter one, point one, well it turns out to be point 27
because there's 26 preamble points. But the first point of the first chapter of the catechism,
what does it say? God created man for happiness. How's that working out? God created man
for happiness, and we have this desire within us for that happiness.

Very often, we ignore it or we try to satisfy that desire for happiness with the wrong things. For
about two or three weeks Walter, every time I asked him "How are you, Walter," he said, "I'm a
very happy boy, Daddy." But about three weeks later I come home one night. I walk into the
kitchen and Walter is in his high chair having his dinner and Isabel is in her high chair next to
him, having her dinner, and I say to Walter, "How's my very happy boy today?" He looks at me
in a very serious face, "No, Daddy." I say, "What do you mean 'No Daddy'?" He said, "I'm a sad
boy right now." I said to my wife, "What did you do to my son?" No, she would punt me.
Absolutely dropkick me from here to next week. I said to my wife, "What happened? What
happened?"

So, in the Kelly household, nap time is from 2:00 to 5:00 every day. There are no exceptions to
the rule ever. Nap time from 2:00 to 5:00 every day. If the kids want to just lay in their beds and
rest, that's fine. Very often, Walter will say to me, "Daddy I don't need a nap, I'm a big boy."
"Okay buddy, you just lay down on your bed and rest, okay?" Three minutes later, gone.
Completely out. Anyway, this afternoon Walter decided he wasn't going to take his nap. He was
going to walk around his crib, he's going to do a stand up show for his stuffed animals, he's
building caves with his blankets. So come 6:30, guess what? He's tired. And what does he
equate that with? Unhappiness.

Here's the thing, God created us for happiness, and you know what? Our happiness is a fragile
thing. Our happiness is a very fragile thing. That's why God calls us to a narrow path, not the
broad highway. God realizes, "You know what? I created you for your happiness and your
happiness is a fragile thing." Much, much, much, much, much, more fragile than we realize. You
have this desire for happiness, and God wants you to start listening to it. This is what I know for
sure. This is what I know for absolute sure: every single one of us, we have a hole within us. We
have a whole. From time to time we feel empty, we feel incomplete, we feel unfulfilled, we feel
dissatisfied. Why? Because we've got a hole in us.

We try to fill that hole with lots of things, all sorts of stuff we try to fill that hole with. We say,
"Oh, I feel a bit empty. I’ll throw some accomplishment in the hole." Throw a big
accomplishment in the hole. We think, "Oh, I still feel a little bit dissatisfied. Maybe I need a
bigger accomplishment. I'll throw a bigger accomplishment in the hole and see what that does."
But it doesn't fill the hole. Then we think, "What about pleasures? Maybe I'll throw some
pleasures in the hole and maybe that will fill the hole." That never works either. We think
maybe stuff will fill the hole. Maybe if I get the right car and the right house and the right
clothes, maybe that'll fill the hole. Maybe money, maybe if I had more money, or enough
money, that'll fill the hole.

Nothing fills the hole. Why? Because each and every single one of us, we have a God-sized hole.
Only God is big enough to fill the hole. Until we invite God and say, "All right God, I've got this
big hole in me, and only you're big enough, God to fill this God-sized hole. Please, come and fill
me up. Come and fill that hole in my life." It takes surrender, doesn't it? It takes humility.
The question I have for you today is how will your life change today? Have we just come along
to have a great time, or are we coming for a life changing event? You know what, you get to
decide. You get to decide if today is a life changing event, or just another thing on your
calendar. You get to decide that. Why?

Because we're responsible. We're responsible. We're response-able, we're capable of

responding. You're going to have every chance in the world today to have a life changing
experience. This is what I know for sure: it's not about what I have to say. It's not about what
Eliot has to sing. It's not about what the other speakers will say today. It’s about what God is
going to do in your heart and say in your heart to you today. Can we actually learn to listen to
that? Can we learn to listen to that?

When I was a kid, John Paul II came to Sydney. My dad took me to Mass. There were like three
million people there, I'm like six miles away from the Pope. I'm looking at him on a big screen.
But I remember that after communion, he kneeled down to pray. He closed his eyes, and you
could tell that he was going to a place deep, deep, deep within him. You could also tell that he
lived his life from that deep place. Find that deep place within you. We've all got it. Find that
deep place within you where you can connect with God, discover that best version of yourself,
God's dream for you, and begin to live your life from that deep place.

Because the world doesn't need any more people living a shallow life. The church doesn't need
any more people living shallow and superficial lives. The world and the church need a few brave
souls who are willing to go to that deep place and find that deep place and start to live their life
from that deep place. There's a great story in the Gospels. Jesus comes along one morning and
the disciples have been out fishing all night. Jesus says, "What you guys got?" They say, "We've
got nothing, Jesus." Jesus says, "Well just set off the boats, put down the nets and you'll get a
big catch."

We know historically, now, that the type of boats that they would have been fishing with and
the type of nets they would have been fishing with, that's probably a two or a three hour
exercise. It wasn't just nudge the boat out there and put the nets. It wasn't a tadpole net. And
you know what the disciples are thinking, right? They're thinking, "Hold on a minute preacher
boy, we are expert fishermen. This is what we do. You might be good with healing the sick and
feeding the 5,000 and all that sort of stuff, even raising people from the dead, but we are
expert fishermen." It's counterintuitive, right? It was counterintuitive for those guys to set their
nets out, to take the boats back out. But they did it. Why? Faith.

Faith requires us to do things very, very often that are counterintuitive. Counter to the world's
wisdom, but deeply steeped in God's wisdom. Find that deep place within you, because just like
the disciples, if you set your nets down into the deep, God will give you an enormous catch. An
enormous catch. The question is how do we do that? How do we find that? I'll finish with a
story.

Once upon a time there was a very successful business man. He grew up in the worst kind of
poverty imaginable. But he went on to become very successful, very wealthy, and very
connected all around the world. He owned a castle about an hour outside of London, but he
never went to the castle because he was too busy. So one summer he decided to have a party,
hold a party at the castle. He invited 600 guests, and the guest list was like a who's who list of
the whole world. Every type of celebrity and famed personality on the planet was on the guest
list. But sprinkled among them, was about a dozen very average, normal people who were the
childhood friends of the host.

On the evening of the party, the castle looked absolutely brilliant. It was lit up with all these
flames and the guests arrived and they were ushered into this enormous ancient banquet hall,
where they were served the most exquisite meal with the finest wines. After dinner, but before
dessert, the host stood up and welcomed his guests and thanked his guests for coming, and
announced that instead of dancing or music on this particular evening, for this particular party,
for entertainment he had chosen to invite one of England's premiere Shakespearean actors to
present a series of excerpts from the writings of William Shakespeare.

With that, the actor stood up to thunderous applause and began to present, one after another
these brilliant passages from the writings of Shakespeare. After each excerpt, the audience just
erupted in applause, and the applause echoed up off these stone walls, up through the castle
and out into these courtyards. After about 20 minutes, the actor announced that he was
finished, but if anybody had any special requests he would be happy to present them, favorite
passages from Shakespeare, if he knew them. One man raised his hand and requested the
soliloquy from Macbeth. The actor presented it absolutely flawlessly and again, the place
erupted in applause.

A woman raised her hand and requested the 14th Sonnet, and he presented that powerfully.
Another woman raised her hand and requested the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. He
presented that brilliantly, each time the place erupting in applause. And then an old man, way
down in the back of the banquet hall raised his hand. As it turned out, the old man was a priest,
a child hood friend of the host. The old priest said to the actor, "Sir, I realize it's not
Shakespeare, but I was wondering, could you present for us the 23rd Psalm?" The actor smiled
and said, "Father, when I was in fourth grade, Sister Mary made us all learn the 23rd Psalm by
heart, and every morning one student was elected to come to the front of the classroom and
recite the Psalm for the whole class. I would be happy to recite the Psalm, I just have one
condition."

The priest was a little taken back, he wasn't expecting conditions. He inquired the actor to what
his condition was, and he said, "I will recite the Psalm if, when I'm finished, you will recite the
Psalm for all of us here tonight." The priest was really taken aback now, but he very much
wanted to hear the actor recite the Psalm. So, reluctantly, he agreed. With that, the actor
began.

"The Lord is my shepherd. There is nothing I shall want." When the actor finished, the place
erupted. The people clapped and they cheered and they stood like they would never stop
clapping and cheering. When they did finally settle down, the actor looked back towards the old
priest and said, "Father, it's your turn now." The old priest stood up in his place, and he
fidgeted with the table cloth in front of him. Then, he began in a firm, but deeply reflective
voice, "The Lord is my shepherd. There is nothing I shall want. He lets me lie down in green
pastures, he leads me beside peaceful waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of
righteousness for His name's sake. Even though I walk though the valley of the shadow of
death, I will not be afraid for the Lord, He is at my side. His rod and His staff, they comfort and
protect me. He prepares a table for me in the presence of my enemies. He anoints my head
with oil. My cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and
I will live in the house of the Lord, forever."
When the priest finished, nobody clapped. Nobody spoke, nobody moved. It was as if the old
priest had mesmerized them. Seizing the moment, the actor stood back up and said to the
people, "Do you realize what you have witnessed here tonight?" The people just looked at him.
He said, "I'll tell you. My whole life I've known the Psalm but why was the priest so much more
powerful? My whole life, I've known the Psalms. There's no question I know the Psalm. But
Father, he knows the Shepherd."

If you do nothing else with your life, get to know the Shepherd. I'm not kidding now. If you do
nothing else with your life, get to know the Shepherd. How well do you know the Shepherd?
Give yourself a score between one and ten, how well do you know the Shepherd? Change that
score. Get to know the Shepherd. If you do nothing else with your life, get to know the
Shepherd because he will help you discover that deep, deep place within you and live from that
deep place. He will lead you to green pastures. He will restore your soul. He will lead you to
living waters. He will walk with you in the valley of the shadow of death. He will anoint your
head with oil, he will protect you from your enemies and your cup will overflow. Get to know
the Shepherd. God bless you, great to be with you.