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-and grumble about? Well, I think in my experience, it has always been difficult.

The challenges may be different today, but as I look back on my forty years working for the NHS, there have always been struggles.

In this world, you will have difficulties, warns our Lord.

But then he also reassures us, "Take heart, I have overcome the world." So do everything without complaining or grumbling.

And also, let's just please make note that these words about complaining and grumbling are the same words which were used for the Israelites when they grumbled and complained against God.

But how do we stop grumbling? How do we inoculate ourselves against this virus of constant complaining and bickering? This attitude, which I believe and we know is so prevalent in the world, in the world today, is hap- seems to be the way of the world today.

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These things I have commanded you, so that you will love one another." This is the word of the Lord.

Well, good morning again.

Um, thank you so much for, um, asking to be here.

It's a delight.

And, um, as Felicia said, I so look forward to meeting many of you and catching up with old friends again.

Now, I think we all know that we're gathered here today under the banner of Christian Medical Fellowship.

And what unites us together is healthcare, holistic healthcare for our patients.