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That the same Psalm that talks about walking through the shadow of death is the Psalm that talks about being led to green pastures and besides still waters.

So I'm, uh, my final answer to your question is I've got to attend to the sustainability of a supple heart, and, and all of that means, you know, as we've been talking about, kind of changing, closer, further back, local, global, just finding a way to remain present-

Okay.

The years are short, but the days are long, and that's a blessing, not a curse.

There is so much for us to notice every single day, so many ways we can respond.

So my farewell prayer to 2022, and my blessing over all of you who listen, is to find a moment today to put on the brakes.

To stop, just stop what you're doing and take a deep breath, realizing that the air moving through you has moved through the lungs of all creation.

But still it's like, what do we do with that? It leads into the other question I wanted to explore with you is like, what have you learned from the land and the animals and the wasps about God and what it means to be human that you didn't learn in church or in seminary?

Oh, yeah.

This is where I'm glad you didn't tell me questions ahead of time, because I would have written books for answers instead of answers.

But I guess not only what I learned, what I taught in church, you know, one of the reasons I needed to get some distance on being the kind of Christian exemplar of a congregation was I had questions.

And no one with any sense should put a 12-year-old child in a confirmation class with me because they'd come out asking more questions than giving answers.

So the huge difference is that everything happens on this land.

And God does not swoop in and rescue the thrasher who ended yesterday to be somebody's dinner.

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