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On Seeds, Hoaxes, Covid and Values. (Matthew 13. 1-8, 18-23)

I’m going to let you in on a little secret, something that only priests know. Now this is serious, hidden, deep secret knowledge. Promise to keep it to yourself? Sometimes people are difficult. I know right? I bet you’re really surprised to hear that. People are also complicated, which is why they’re sometimes difficult. We’re all a mixture of our past, our present. Our memories make us who we are. We are a bundle of experiences wrapped up in a case. Our experience of life, our values are often all that we have. When something scary comes along that challenges our values, our experience, most of us shut down. Try as we might, when something is deeply challenging, we can often just go, nope, that’s not true, because that’s not my experience. It’s the mental equivalent of putting our fingers in our ears and going la la la la. I can’t hear you. I wonder how many of us have done this? When we come across something challenging? I know I have. That’s not my view, it isn’t true, it’s not my e

Covid Is A Hoax (Matthew 13.1-9, 18-23)

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I’m going to let you in on a little secret, something that only priests know. Now this is serious, hidden, deep secret knowledge. Promise to keep it to yourself? Sometimes people are difficult. I know right? I bet you’re really surprised to hear that. People are also complicated, which is why they’re sometimes difficult. We’re all a mixture of our past, our present. Our memories make us who we are. We are a bundle of experiences wrapped up in a case. Our experience of life, our values are often all that we have. When something scary comes along that challenges our values, our experience, most of us shut down. Try as we might, when something is deeply challenging, we can often just go, nope, that’s not true, because that’s not my experience. It’s the mental equivalent of putting our fingers in our ears and going la la la la. I can’t hear you. I wonder how many of us have done this? When we come across something challenging? I know I have. That’s not my view, it isn’t true, it’