David said one thing I ask of the Lord this I seek And my guess is if we're thoughts think about it this this whole idea about one thing, right? What is that one thing that the Lord is asking of each one of us? David's was there is one thing I love David first off I love David because he was great what David did he did big He loved the Lord big he sinned big he repented big David did it all and the thing is is even with everything that he did We still have a positive feeling towards David if we think about all the horrible things he did There's something about grace working in somebody's life that moves them and changes them and transforms them So David could say there's just one thing I want and I want to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life Which is not a bad deal a man I mean think about that to be able to imagine ourselves dwelling in the house of the Lord and what that's going to be like We're talking about it the other day and the Scripture reminds us that no mind can imagine No ear can hear or see or anything like that about what the house of the Lord is going to be like But I agree with David that that's where I want to be a man That's what this is all about This is supposed to be leading us to the house of the Lord if that's not the path you're on if that's not the direction You're going if what you're doing right now is not leading you to dwell in the house of the Lord for the rest of your life I suggest you get on a different road amen David says one thing one thing I like Is to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life That was his one thing What's your one thing That one thing that you desire I was praying and thinking about that one thing in the scene from a movie came back to my mind And it was a movie city slickers Classic movie I'm sure Actually, I'm always really careful about doing things like this because like there could be other scenes in the movie that are Just like totally awful. I was doing one youth conference in this this scene from Braveheart Let's just say they started the clip about 10 seconds too early. I Had to apologize to a lot of parents, but let's just show that that clip from city slickers Do you know what the secret life is? No This your finger one thing just one thing that's great, but What's the one thing? That's what you got to figure out So that's what we have to figure out. It's funny if you go to the comments on YouTube under the clip The second comment is it's Jesus. I mean, that's the one thing. It's Jesus. Okay. I get that But what is the one thing what does it look like for us one of the things? I love about my nieces and nephews and kids in general is they're able to really single be singly focused like when they make up their mind on something they want to do they do it and I remember there's a occasion My niece and she's now 30 something now but at the time she was maybe six or seven years old and I was coming home and I was gonna take her to the movie oh crap Little mermaid. I think it was little mermaid. Who's who's the little princess in murmur. Is it Ariel? All you guys are like, I don't know and all the all the grandmothers out there the mothers out there know exactly So she was all excited so whenever we talk on the phone She goes like Uncle Dave when you come home You're gonna take me to the movies that we're gonna go to the movie and she's all excited and every time we're on the phone She sent me these little things through her dad these little clips of the pictures of the movie and all that So I come home and she's excited we get together the day I go and I pick her up And we go to lunch and we take her to basically ice cream and just let her eat whatever she wants And we drive up to the theater when I first get to the theater I'm a little anxious because it's a lot of people there So I walk up to the theater and we go up to buy her two tickets and she's almost crying She's so excited and I say two tickets for the little mermaid and the lady says we're sold out This is why you don't have children, right? Exactly. So I Explain to a six-year-old girl They're sold out, right? It's like, well, Uncle Dave you promised you promised you'd take me to Sierra So later that started bargaining bargaining people. It's like I'll give you $500 for your seats. All right She could go by herself. I don't even I don't even want to see this movie honestly, right? The sense of being single-minded that we have What's that one thing for us? I was amazed and obviously the the answer to this is Jesus But we're going to talk about what does that mean? But I'm amazed at the number of people their one thing ought not be their one thing that one thing that motivates their life How many people if you're honest you're you're largely motivated by fear You do things or don't do things because you're afraid You're afraid what might happen You're afraid what could happen You're afraid what people would say Afraid what your parents would say afraid what your kids would say afraid what your spouse would say They were motivated by fear Remember number years ago. There was a guy and he was motivated by a secret Something awful that happened to him when he was a little boy from some neighborhood kids And that secret motivated every part of his life He would go on and he would tell the story he was in high school And in high school he was doing this lab It was some science lab and there were a couple of guys that were across the science room across the classroom And they were laughing and in his mind had no no connection to reality But in his mind they were laughing because they knew what had happened to him when he was a little boy No no touch with reality, but that's what he believed He literally walks across the classroom starts a fight with these kids gets expelled I mean his life becomes this profound mess ends up in Reno Messed up alcoholic and he encounters Jesus And it changes his life And he would begin to share about that time when he was no longer going to be bound to that secret And he would stand up and he would give talks at retreats was working mostly with young people And this thing that he was afraid of anybody finding out he would actually talk about Because it wasn't what motivated his life anymore That had changed What motivates your life? What's that one thing and I'm sure that it probably changes and there are different things but But what I want to talk about is is this mission Yeah, if we're going to be following Jesus if we're going to be faithful to him What's that one thing that's absolutely necessary that each one of us is able to embrace or else it's not going to be possible I want to suggest and it's a word that I don't think we generally like What I want to look at this morning is that that one thing is obedience I hate obedience Right, you know Even that word we just need to find a different actually I was wrestling with the word. I love the word faithfulness I love faithfulness, but there's a difference between obedience and faithfulness faithfulness is a reflection on how obedient we are And the reality is is I think we've always had a hard time with obedience And the first night The p was talking about adam and eve and adam and eve are in the garden And there's just this beautiful image of abiding with the lord The scripture says that adam and eve were walking through the garden in the middle of the day that were naked with the lord Everything is just wonderful. There's there's no sense of problem or pain or struggle or to air anything like that And the lord says to them, I think this is profoundly beautiful. You are free And then we ought to continue to reflect and think about that the lord created adam and eve created all of us in freedom And he says you are free. You're free to do whatever and to do whatever He's created us that way. You are free to eat of any any fruit. Just not this one tree Do you ever find that on on fridays during lent you crave a hamburger? Even though you might not have had a hamburger in like six weeks, but that friday during lent, right? You just why because We just don't like to be told no You can eat of all of I mean this tree is no different than this tree. Just Don't eat of this one What does eve do? Adam's over praying is rosary Actually Actually Actually adam shouldn't have been adam should have been there No serpent should be able to approach a man's bride without him being there in front of him amen And adam and eve and you and I let's not kid ourselves Eat of the fruit and what happens because of their disobedience and this is the same in my life today What happens because of their disobedience number one?  Actually some of you can Being afraid of god I mean the image are so stark walking in the in the middle of the day with the lord hand in hand peace joy presence right and then next covering themselves hiding And this is remarkable god says where are you? Telling you if it was me i wouldn't come looking I wouldn't have come looking but the reality is we pay attention to the scriptures So oftentimes the scriptures are a story about god looking for us and this is ridiculous again. I wouldn't go looking It's a lot like my mother when we were little We were playing hide and go seek in the middle of the day when mom was just going crazy because she had six kids And she says let's play a game and say that's great mom. Let's play hide and go seek Okay, you guys run hide and be as quiet as you can all right and i'm gonna come looking for you It's like this is great. So we love we run and we're hiding it's like Okay, be quiet be quiet and just like Ten and she's Still not looking Mom is awful at this game right An hour and a half later.  She's oh you guys God comes looking for us all right. So the first one we lose is we lose union with god to their shame When we're disobedient we lose union with god and we we are we're filled with shame they cover themselves They don't even want to be seen by him Such as the nature of disobedience And finally death Death death enters the equation death in our soul death in our spirit Hope peace joy and literally death Death separation from god Adam and Eve didn't or couldn't or wouldn't Be obedient, but honestly we're not that different We're not that different there's occasion with my little niece and and I just love the fact that my niece is a nephew They get to tell stories about them because I never did anything bad. So I have to be able to look at them So this is the same niece who comes home. This is great She comes home from school one day and she was on the bus And she was sitting in the front seat next to the bus driver and and she always sat in the back of the bus Always sat in the back of the bus. So when she comes off the bus my sister says, you know Molly I'll throw her under the bus. Molly. Why were you sitting next to the bus driver? She goes, I don't know I don't know. I think maybe he wanted to get to know me better And then she says or I got in trouble for spitting out the window, right I'm not I'm not sure which one it is But anyway, she she had done something and my mom says to her might she had done something wrong And my mom says, you know molly don't do that and molly says you're not the boss of me Right to which my sister said molly everybody's the boss of you, right? Everybody's the boss, but we don't like that I mean the reality is is we don't we don't outgrow that we do not like to be told what we should and what we should not do But I suggest that one thing that I want to reflect on the one thing I invite you to think about the one thing I invite you as you leave today to reflect and pray and go before the lord is Are you are we? Obedient because it's at the heart of the spiritual life We take a look at at why it is that we're supposed to be obedient And I think one of the struggles we have is it's hard to be obedient to somebody. We don't know It's hard to be obedient to this kind of this vague power or or Something that's going to restrict us that's out there, but I suggest something changes when we become in love with someone That that that is ultimately obedience there's something about being obedient just because you're told to do okay fine But there's something profoundly different about being obedient because we love we find in the scriptures in john 1421 it says whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me Brothers and sisters our ability to be obedient to the lord is directly connected to our love of him Don't tell me you love god and you're not obedient to him I can't say that I love him and I give my life to him if I'm not being obedient to him Scripture goes on and says what the heck was that awkward I don't know it just like came from Oh, he probably was john bow you john and I were this is this is the problem about being around for too long john and I were roommates together in college And the problem is is I can't talk about anything he did because it's now confessional and he could say anything so My life is so complicated Okay, so scripture says whoever loves me will keep my word This is just phenomenal whoever loves me will keep my word And my father will love him and he will come to him and make our dwelling with him Whoever does not love me does not keep my words whoever doesn't love me is an obedient Yet the word you hear is not mine, but that of the father who has sent me We show Our love in our obedience Our love by how obedient we are to him I mean The worst thing I hated the thing I hated to hear from my mom and my dad when I was young Was I'm so disappointed in you I mean occasionally I went and I did something really stupid and I came back at home and And moms are just so good at this She was sitting in her bed and she was kind of sitting it up and there was a light little candle off to the side And my mom's got ms. So her rosary beads were always really big So she had this big rosary over her lap and she's praying rosary and tears I think she'd probably sprayed herself with bottled water But like tears just going down her cheeks and it glistened in the candlelight and I walk in and she's like I'm so disappointed in you, right If I didn't love her Or if she didn't love me and somebody said I'm so disappointed in you. It's like I don't I really don't care what you feel or what you but But because she loves me and I love her To hear that I'm disappointed in you It just breaks my heart, right That there's something that changes about obedience and our desire to be obedient When we know that we're loved when we know that the one who is asking something of us loves us And we show our love and our we show our love for god by our ability to be obedient of what he asks of us If I think and reflect about the vast majorities of the problem in the church that we experience It's because men and women haven't been obedient Haven't been faithful Haven't lived the gospel haven't been faithful to the teachings of the church It seems to me that it continually comes back to obedience And we find that in the scriptures that that if the foundation of our walk with Jesus Is one of being obedient to what he asks of us matthew 7 24 to 27 Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them Will be like the wise man who built his house on rock The rain fell The floods came The winds blew and buffeted the house But it did not collapse it It had been built soundly on rock And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them who is not obedient to them Will be like the fool who built his house on sand The rain fell the floods came the winds blew And it buffeted the house and it collapsed. It was completely ruined Marks for everybody mark Bart Sarah Pete all spoke of the winds that are buffeting this house We can look around it's not hard for us to see it It's everywhere In this house this house that we call the church or this house that we call me the temple of god the winds and the storm is buffeting And we have to ask ourselves. What is the foundation that we're being built on? And jesus says if that foundation isn't him In his teachings and being faithful to that it will be destroyed now i am confident and this is important I am confident that this winds and the storms and the gates of hell will never prevail against the church You know, there's been a lot of negative things about the said to the church We've given lots of reasons to say negative things I suppose but she's still the bride and she is still beautiful and she is still worth fighting for amen And the church as the church will always be obedient individuals may not be obedient, but the church as the church was promised The question we ask ourselves is what does it look like for us to build our foundation to be obedient to jesus? particularly in the little things I think a danger that we have is we compare ourselves to other people When we talk about how faithful we are to the lord and how obedient we are to the lord and how good we are to the lord And all these kinds of things we compare ourselves to the person down to the street. It's like well, I'm not as bad as that person Right, so i'm doing i'm doing pretty good. I mean if we think of a scale of one to ten and obedience I'm a solid eight because they're a six So it's just i'm glad i'm not them, right? The problem is is that well the measure with which we compare ourselves ought not be our neighbor ought not be our spouse it ought to be jesus Right, he's the one that I compare myself to And the reality is in the light of that There is always greater room for me to give and present to the lord greater obedience To what he's called us to It's one of the reasons I love the wedding of kena. It's the fourth chapter of john and it's just such a beautiful I love the fact. I love love love being catholic. Amen I love being catholic. Yeah, it's it's interesting.  I mean go to spain or go to it'll are there struggles a mess Yeah, of course, but they're also in the midst of their mess. They're having a glass of wine. All right That's a good thing brothers and sisters, right? Right. That's a good thing That's a good thing, but I love the wedding at kena I just love the fact that the first miracle that jesus does is let's uh, let's get some wine, right? We've got a major party if you've not seen the chosen of the episode. Yeah, the chosen is really really beautiful But the episode the episode of the wedding at kena is really beautiful this one I can't remember which of the disciples is dancing and he just doesn't dance very well And they say jesus can you do something for him? He goes I can't even help that, right? Right, but I love the reality that in the midst of this they're having a big party and jesus's first act is To be able to change water into wine But what I love the text where they say where mary says do whatever he tells you I mean when I die if they put as a friar I know exactly what they're going to put on the gravestone because they except for my name They put everything is exactly the same, but I would love it if they actually put on my gravestone. He said yes Because that's what I want. I just want to be able to say jesus. I said yes to whatever you asked of me And I love that text from mary.  All right if I must right? I love what colby said maximillion colby He speaks about obedience. He says in order that obedience be supernatural It must not proceed from reason But from faith If my obedience and we're going to talk in a moment how jesus's obedience was supernatural if my obedience from is Going to be supernatural. It can't just be because I figured out this makes sense If if if my obedience demands that I have this always this intellectual exercise that says okay. Yes, this makes sense to me I'm going to do it Colby says it's not supernatural. It's not grazed It's just the flesh for me It was last spring And coven was crazy You know and I think at times we we are very critical of Everybody both sides everybody because nobody knew what the heck was going on And I remember the day that the bishop called me and he said Dave We it was funny because that this is awful. All right. I admit this Other diocese were closing the things down and our diocese closed things down later But I sent the email to the bishop thanking him for not closing things down With the feeling that he would probably have to do it in about a week And I remember the call and he said, you know, we can't have public masses anymore. I never imagined As a priest That I would not be able to celebrate mass with the congregation and never crossed my mind But I also remember actually in this field house on this stage 25 years and nine days ago I knelt down in front of the bishop and I promised I would be obedient And I promised I would be obedient And if I'm only obedient when I feel like it or when I like what they're being said What grace is there in that pagans do that? And I will say that that that six weeks that we were having no public masses was Was in one way it was profoundly difficult and troubling and just a time of suffering But in a way that I can't explain there was a unity to Jesus that I had never experienced before This closeness This intimacy We've got to be able to be obedient especially in times that it doesn't make sense You know bishops have a role that I firmly believe the worst job in the world right now is being a bishop It's just it's horrible somebody.  But this this sense that we have I mean one of the things I was giving a talk and I was talking about the bishops And somebody came up to me afterwards and they said why would you talk? Why would you listen to what the bishops are saying? Because i'm catholic And as soon as we're beginning Yeah, as soon as we begin to pick and choose brothers and sisters were Protestant As soon as we pick and choose it's like i'm gonna listen to this or the other the thing that people come to me And they say you know, well, I know the bishop said this but I read this blogger Where I saw this youtube It's like yeah, I remember a person who used to post he posted 95 theses We called him Martin Luther he posted it on a door in a church in vettemberg and he got a lot of followers And where's that led us? I recall bob rice tells a story about his pastor a number of years ago And his bishop was really progressive and really liberal and and this his pastor was really conservative and And somebody came up to me and he was kind of kind of baiting him He said well, you know, what do you think about your bishop and all the things that he's done? And this this priest said my bishop He's he's my bishop I would lay down my life for my bishop Because I don't agree with everything he does and I don't agree with everything he writes, but he's my bishop And I will lay down my life for him Brothers and sisters for too often we have spoken about cafeteria catholics And then we pick and choose My experiences in the last 15 or 20 years the tides have turned We have to ask ourselves Are we willing to be obedient and I go back to what colby says That obedience at the heart of it when it becomes supernatural is when it is preceded by not by reason but by faith When I was a postulate one of the professors I had was talking about struggles that he had with the church Or struggles that he had with individuals in the church And he said there has to be some place some time Where I bow my head And I submit to obedience And I suggest that at that moment It's what separates us as catholics and as christians And we define ourselves that what we're going to do Is we are going to be obedient as jesus was amen Because that's fine Talk is cheap Talk is cheap matthew 21 23 Not everyone who says to me lord lord will enter the kingdom of heaven But only the one who does the will of my father in heaven Many will say to me on that day lord lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name and then I will turn and I will say solemnly I never knew you Depart from me you evil door that is one of the scariest scriptures in In the entire but it scares the crap out of me Like jesus am I doing what you want am I being obedient to what you're asking of me Because I can give all these talks and I can do all these things and I can say how great you are and how wonderful And I can look so reverent and holy But jesus says that person won't necessarily enter the kingdom of god only the ones that are who are obedient Will enter the kingdom of god One of the things that I love is that obedience allows us to be able to see god do really cool things Right Peter Get out of that boat And he just begins to walk upon water I mean, I would love to if I just like walking right how cool is that that this these people got to see Literally, peter walk on water because he was obedient You know, I know people who have done things that have been kind of crazy or seemed kind of crazy And then you look back and it's like by your obedience. That was really amazing And thank you for letting us to be a part of that and thank you for letting us see that I think sometimes by us not being obedient we we we inhibit the lord from doing the great work that he wants to do And when we submit ourselves and we said jesus i'm going to be obedient to whatever it is that you ask of me Even though it might look foolish and even though intellectually it may not make sense But I trust in faith that you're going to do great things and people begin to walk on water Amen, I think that's what the lord wants us to get out of the boat and walk on water Now one of the dilemmas and one of the struggles is and we hear it all the time Is that jesus wouldn't ask something of me that's so difficult We particularly hear this common in the in the younger population today And it's often revolved around our moral teachings Jesus would god wouldn't ask something of me that is so difficult I think of the rich young man in the 14th chapter of luke Runs up to jesus. So what do I have to do to inherit eternal life? This is what you have to do Sell all you have and follow me You can't do that. It's really sad scripture. He walks away. He says his face fails. He walks away sad Now what jesus doesn't do is ah, I didn't think that was going to be so hard I didn't think you being obedient to what I was asking was going to be so difficult. So come back here. All right What do you want to do? You don't want to sell all your I'm not going to ask something difficult of you What do you want to do to inherit eternal life? Okay, do that Right, that's fine Go ahead and do that. He asked profoundly difficult things of us There was a quote that I read recently and it's about this whole woke population that that's spiritual but not religious And one of the person says we don't want to reject religion outright But we don't want to be restricted by it So what they're saying is that they want to create a god in their own image who does not place any boundaries upon them Let's be clear When jesus asks difficult things as it relates to obedience We hear in hebrus 5 8 Son though he was he learned obedience by what he suffered And when he was made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation For all who obey him Son though he was he learned obedience from what he suffered You know, we think a lot about jesus's suffering and i'm gonna talk about it in a moment, but just Think about this we we think about the suffering and the passion But think about the suffering that jesus experiences all the time, but particularly experienced that We all know The suffering that we experienced by loved ones who turn away from the lord Who walk away from him My guess is we all have somebody in our life and our family that's done horrible things And we see that and in that helplessness and saying i know that your life could be different if you would just do that There's a suffering in that and jesus Jesus continues and suffered because of that he looks at me and he says dave if you would just do this differently And out of his love for us Yeah, he suffers He learned obedience by what he suffered Our salvation brothers and sisters come about because of jesus's suffering I take profound consolation In jesus's time in the garden Where jesus was being asked to do something Profoundly difficult And what i love about this is jesus didn't like just walk up there. It's like yep. Yep. Here we go Right here actually right here would probably be better. How let me help you out, right? I mean we have this we have this image of Of jesus and he's struggling and he's wrestling with this I read an article one time The compared and contrasted socrates death who goes through his death and he drinks very very courageously the hemlock and he drinks that and And jesus suffers. He says i don't want to do this And he goes back to the father and he says if there's any other way Come there's got to be another way. Let's let's talk about this And he goes back to his friends and he says can't you just stay awake with me just Just for a moment just I love the reality that jesus was wrestling with what the father was asking of him And he says if there could be any other way Think about it just another day There's got to be something else we could do here And then he says what I hope I can say Not my will but yours Not not why and I know that what you're going to ask of me and I know that what you're going to ask of other people is difficult But it's something that jesus said jesus isn't going to ask anything of us that he hasn't done himself His obedience Cost him his life And I can't say that that's ever happened to me At the occasion a number of years ago to go to china and I was dealing with this one gentleman and he told me the story of his uncle And his uncle in the 50s was arrested and he was put in prison And the guards were continually saying if you just renounce your faith We'll let you go free and it's like i'm not going to renounce my faith. I'm a catholic christian and i'm not going to renounce that So day after day after month after year would go and they would say if you just renounce at you So one day had literally been in prison for years one day said okay You just had enough Said enough I I don't believe it and they were they were faithful to him. They said okay. You can go home So this guy goes home, but he didn't exactly think through his entire plan because he goes home and his family says to him It's so great to see you and they've given him hugs and how wonderful it is and then they asked him Why did they let you out? He hadn't thought that through And he had to tell them why they let him out of prison So what does he do? He goes back to prison the next day And he renounces his renunciation And they killed him this person's uncle is a martyr Because he was obedient to jesus I spent some time in iraq with the caldian community in march Amen And I asked one of them. I said what was it like And they talk about what it was like under isis and what was going on there and I asked the bishop I said how many priests do you know that were killed that were martyred and you started Being in iraq and listening to them talk about being disciples of jesus is really different than what we experience here Right obedient to death What's it cost us What's it cost us we have got to remember brothers and sisters That the obedience our salvation comes about Through jesus's obedience to the father And it's going to be the same for me and it's going to be the same for you To be obedient Even unto death and there's some teachings that are harder and more difficult than others And we can't just pick and choose which one we're going to abide by So when jesus says in matthew 544 But I say to you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you that you may be children of the heavenly father That this is a commandment that we have and then we've got to be obedient We have to be obedient to loving our brothers and sisters and to be obedient to loving our enemy I love what sarah was talking about yesterday.  There's his kids We create enemies, but god doesn't create enemies And brothers and sisters what should make and should mark the catholic church is different is our ability to love Our ability to love those people that we disagree with to dialogue to engage to talk to be present We've got to be if we as the body of christ don't love well Why do we expect anybody else to love well amen? And it has got to be for that person. We have got when jesus says love your enemy. Who is that person?  It will be what marks us as a catholic christian community I mean you look at some of the stuff online and some of the blogs and youtube's it's like If this demonstrates faith if this demonstrates charity, I don't want anything to do with that The reality is we are the greatest scandal in the church. It's not the people who don't believe it's the people who profess to be catholic and christian Because we can't be obedient to love amen Yeah, we clap but it's really really difficult amen Jesus says love as I have loved you to the point of death Bart last night talked about the church being the body of christ And then we need to look differently in the world I recall one of our alumni she was out. She's a nurse and she was working in a hospital And they just mentioned her that that she the way she treated one of these patients He said, you know, how is it that you there's something different about you There's something different about the way you care for them They said how is it how is it that you do that and she said one simple answer. She says I've been loved much If we want to transform and change the world we have got to be able to engage and love That's what's going to change those people's heart Not our hate not our condemnation amen she's Okay Matthew 18 Peter approaches asking lord If my brother sins against me how many times must I forgive him as many as seven times jesus answered I say to you Not seven times, but 70 times seven times. Can I be obedient to that? That individual Who just drives me create the individual who's hurt me and not just the individual who's hurt me in the past But the one who continues to hurt me can I forgive them Seven times seven times bear in mind brother and sisters that there is a difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. We are commanded to forgive And that's a question of the heart. It's an act of the will. It's a decision I forgive why because jesus has forgiven me and jesus says in the scriptures if you do not forgive your brother I can't forgive you So we need to be obedient to forgiveness. It's a question of the heart. It's a decision jesus. I forgive so and so Reconciliation is different. I used to think reconciliation was possible reconciliation is between two people and both people have to be desirous of reconciling That's hard. It's not always possible Forgiveness is always possible Take a blank piece of paper and at the top of it write their name and say I forgive you for And just fill it out And just keep on writing Jesus commanded are we obedient? Jesus says in the scriptures in matthew 28 19 go there for make disciples of all nations Baptizing them in the name of the father. We are commanded to make disciples. Let's not overthink this Let's not make it more difficult. Go and develop relationships engage people talk to them share with them your story make disciples amen Finally an example of obedience This is the year obviously of st. Joseph And I was really pleased when the holy father chose to make this year a special focus of obedience of st Joseph and as I was praying and reflecting it seems to me Uh, Joseph was an obedient follower The holy father said in his document on st Joseph he said in the first dream the angel helps him resolve his grave dilemma Do not be afraid to take mary as your wife for the child conceived in her is from the holy spirit She will bear a son and you are to name him jesus For he will save his people from their sins joseph's response was immediate When joseph awoke from his sleep he did as the angel the lord commanded him obedience made it possible for him to surmount the difficulties and to spare mary In every holy father we're going to say in every situation joseph declared his own fiat Like those of mary in the enunciation and jesus in the garden at gesemini In his role as the head of the family joseph taught jesus to be obedient to his parents In accordance to the father's command I love this again going back to what colby said colby said that it doesn't always make sense But we're obedient imagine the may our blessed mother you are going to be with child And it's going to be the power the power of the holy spirit that makes sense Yes, all right, and then joseph it's like okay joseph this guy is confident in his dreams. Okay I've got weird dreams. All right, but joseph has his dream. It says don't worry. This is why it's happening What does joseph do it says if we go to the scriptures, it says immediately at night Right when they went to egypt immediately at night He was obedient And took jesus and his wife to egypt I I found myself reflecting on this this relationship between joseph and jesus joseph was his dad right joseph was his Abba his papa And joseph jesus learned obedience because he watched joseph. I'm sure jesus said okay. Tell me the story again Well, you were born and I had this dream and in this dream an angel said to me Take you to egypt. That is so weird. So I spent three years in egypt Yeah, you spent a couple years in egypt. That is so weird, but the reason you did this is because the angel said to do it Yep Jesus grew up watching his daddy Be obedient to whatever. I mean this doesn't make any sense But he learned obedience from watching his father And one of the things that I loved about joseph was that he sees that a part of obedience is acceptance and the holy father would go on to say He said often in life things happen whose meanings we do not understand and our first reaction is frequently one of disappointment or rebellion Joseph set aside his own ideas in order to accept the course of events And the mysterious as they seem to embrace them and take responsibility for them And make them a part of his own story Unless we are reconciled with our own story We will be able to take a single step forward For we will always remain hostage to our expectations and the disappointments that follow Joseph in the midst of circumstances that he didn't want he didn't ask for he couldn't imagine Was obedient to what god asked him And because of this he formed jesus Who would remember who would pay attention who would watch And it ultimately invited him to be obedient to what the father asked of him And let's not lose sight that the only reason you're sitting here and i'm sitting here is because he was obedient obedient to what the father asked Just one thing Just one thing What's your one thing?


One thing about Elementor is they like to give us gifts every now and then they throw us new gifts and I'm not talking about like features or things added to the plug-in these are gifts are completely off-site not even related to the plug-in at all they're external and this week they just dropped us a new gift and I want to share that with you all just so you're aware of it and you could go ahead and play around with it try it out and see if this helps you and that is going to be their Figma wireframe kits so Elementor just released their Figma wireframe kits and that's we're going to look at really quickly so real quick if you haven't heard about Figma before don't know what Figma is it is basically the go-to web and UI design tool that most professional designers use now in the industry right now for professional designers there are three main tools to go with you got Figma you got Adobe XD and then you got Sketch app me personally I love sketch I even got the sketch tattoo but I also use Figma and I might possibly get a Figma tattoo in the near future too but before I do that let's go ahead and take a look at the wireframes that Elementor just launched I'm going to show you how you could download them and use them yourself and see if this helps out what's up everyone I'm Jeffrey at Lightbox and if you like learning stuff about Elementor web design anything like that make sure to subscribe do all that good YouTube stuff really appreciate it alright let's go ahead and check out Figma with the Elementor wireframe to get started for anybody who is new to Figma hasn't used it yet well here is a Figma website right here it is totally free to use you could go ahead and download it you could use it inside your browser so it doesn't matter if you are a Mac or PC user and then you could also use the app so I'm going to open my app up over here going to go over here to community and inside the community I'm going to type in Elementor let's go ahead and search for it and we're going to see it right here the wireframe to design by Elementor let's go ahead and open it up and if you do hear chickens in the background they are going off right now I live out in a village in Thailand so sometimes I got some natural background noises it's all good though alright so from here let's go ahead and click on get a copy and we're going to see this is Elementor's board right here we got our cover and if we click on here to all pages we could see everything that is included here so I'm going to zoom in and scan through it we got our cover we got our intro and this is something I like a lot right here I'm going to go over that in a minute that's our global styles this is basically like a design style guide right here which is really cool we got our components also could be used as part of a design style guide and then we have our wireframes right here then we got an example of a wireframe let me zoom in more and how it could be used to be turned into a mock-up design right here and they have some of their kit designs right here and then they got a couple other cards right here with some tips and tricks and for me what I see here is just the beginning like this is just a start and I really hope Elementor builds up on this because if they do this could be very helpful in a lot of ways especially for new designers just starting off learning how to use a design tool like this now to use this for yourself we're going to have to duplicate it because we can't go in and make edits because this is Elementor's main board for them but there's an easy way to duplicate it and we could do whatever we want so up here on this bottom arrow let's click on that select on duplicate and now we're going to have our own and this is ours we could do whatever we want with this so I'm going to turn this one off I'm a close that and I want to stick to ours all right so we have all pages intro wireframes we could go through all of it now I really like this right here this is one of the things that stood out to me because having a really simple and clean design style guide is really helpful now I've had other videos on putting these together and using them in fact I'm going to put a link right up over here or here however YouTube does it haven't got that part down yet but there's a link somewhere up here to take you to another video I did on how to use style guys now every time I do a project before I do it I always create a style guide so that way I know what fonts I'm going to use the font sizes are already determined our colors are already determined and then we could also add in other elements here so this is a good template for anybody new starting off to use because it's really simple and clean and I love it when things are simple and clean is better than making things complex and messy for sure all right now let's go over to the wireframe so I'm going to quickly show you how you could use this first create your own artboard just go ahead and click on a and then we're just going to click on one of the desktop ones now I want to match the size here I noticed that elements versus a bit wider so I'm going to move my artboard up here and just stretch it out that way it's matching the size it's going to make things a whole lot easier now all we're doing when it comes to wireframes is we're just laying out the structure it has nothing to do with the design so what I could do here is go ahead and hold down command and see let's move that over here and paste that right here I'm going to stretch out my artboard as well let's go ahead and stretch this all the way down so we can make a full with now let's say right here I want to do something like show an opening we'll just use this one straight from theirs command and see and let's paste this here let's go ahead and add some features I'm going to take this block even though it says our team I could use this as features as well let's go ahead and paste that here and then we could go in and edit the text let me zoom in here and then I could just go ahead and feature title here and do that with all of them and then if you want you could just drag and drop it over and put your elements anywhere and this will allow us to really quickly make up a wireframe you could put a wireframe like this together in a very quick time and then you could use that with your clients with your work it's a great way to plan and strategize your websites instead of just building them directly inside elements or without putting thought into it because this is a strategy phase here I know I'm geeking out on wireframes and that's just because to me wireframes are really important they're a very important part of my design process now those are the wireframes and if we go over here they also gave us this board right here which shows some of the mock-ups and basically what this part is is just an example that's how I see this is just an example of how you could go from a wireframe to a mock-up and you know this is all stuff that are inside elements or kits and then they also give us some tips right here as well personally I kind of like how they did these like as a designer I'm looking at it like I'm probably going to take this arrow right here and use it on my own projects you know you could take an arrow say you want to use an arrow like this and this is the designer in me I'm always looking for these kind of things you know these little nuggets that could help out my projects I could use this I could go down to export and I could export this as a SVG and I could use it in my own projects just something you know show the possibilities so that's Elementor's little gift to us and it's pretty cool I find that the wireframes are kind of helpful now what I'm wishing with them and I hope I hope this is just the start I hope that Elementor adds to this it would be really awesome if they did they started adding other elements like you know a bunch of different header elements different footer elements and things are all possible to do with just Elementor and Elementor Pro turning it into a full web and UI kit I think that would be a really big gift that I'd be really thankful for also I do like the template for the design style guide I think that is really helpful and for anybody new to design that is looking to polish and improve their web design skills I really suggest taking a template like that and using it on your next projects and getting used to using design style guides well I want to hear your thoughts what kind of gifts do you like from Elementor and what would really help you out with your web design process and your businesses as well what will help you become a better website creator drop them in the comments and I'll get back to you and I'll be back again soon with more Elementor and web design related content alright thank you


Good morning everyone! Hi everyone! Today we are at the Russcherskernhaus. I was so wrong. I'm going to be learning how to cook some Thai food with chef. Today we're going to make some Thai food. So traditional German food? Yeah. Then we'll get to taste whatever we make.  Very. Are you ready? Yes. Let's go to the briefing room. Let's go to the briefing room. Let me take you to the briefing room. Should I sit? Yes, please. Before you go in... April. An apron. Oh, you're that kind of slim. The road can go around. Here we go. Music. Here we go. What? Nothing. There. Yes. Ah! There you go. The chef's hat. Attention, attention. It's still there. Very excited to begin. Let's go. Welcome to my world. This is ready-made Thai sauce. What blood type is this? Binsprout. Oh, my favorite. Prawns. Vrilla prawns. So they live in plastic naturally, right? And so you just took them out of the natural habitat just now. Well, they're a couple because they seem very... Yeah, I think so. Maybe they get married already. Yeah, right? So this is the boy? The boy and that is the girl. This is Ricky and this is Shelley. Okay. This is the essence of the Thai, let's see. Yeah. Rice noodle, fried tofu, salted pickle. And carrots. Yeah. Oranges. Oranges. This is a dried shrimp. And this is chai. That's it. Okay. That finishes the cooking class. You didn't get to taste much, but... You need to lay your hands on what we do. Here we go. Cut it like that. Here we go. You see the flesh?  So here. Cut from the neck down to the body. Yeah, that way. Like that? Yeah. Yes. Oh, perfect. And the fact that it's like this means it's fresh. What about the boy one? That's for you to do. You didn't do it. Okay. No, my fault if you didn't do it. I start. Yeah. So like that? Yeah. Then you shall press it a little bit. When do I stop? When it says stop? Perfect. Yeah. We start with the oil. You can add the shallot. You can add some garlic as well. If I want to add 10 million baht, can I? The power to use is medium low. One for you and one for me. Yes. Yeah. So do I just lay it away like that? Yeah. I think now your turn. Simmer a little bit until the prawns cook. How do you know the prawn is cooked when it tells you? I got cut chili and chives. See, the color is changing. Flip it over. You can use two. Two chopsticks. One when it almost cooked in. Then? Then what? Chives. Yes, sorry. One spoon. Adding inside. This is one TBSP. Yeah, one TBSP. Put inside. Right, so one TBSP inside here. Yeah. One TBSP in here. See the color with the prawns. It's mean, it's almost done. We set it on the side for the beginning. We start with the noodles. With the noodles. This noodles inside. Add noodles inside. Now stir. I don't like this one. You like what you're seeing? We add the bean sprouts. Can I do some? I'm not doing anything. One pinch, like that? No, more than a pinch. Too much. Ha, quick, quick, quick, quick. Quick, quick, quick, before it burns. Yeah, and stir. And one pinch of dry shrimp. Yeah, it's almost done. Quick, quick, quick. Put the egg into the pan. Then scramble. Scramble the egg and flip that way. Whap. Whap. The sound is what's making the good cooking, right? Charles, quick. What Charles, quick? Now we're going to lay it out. Me, me, me, me, me. Watch. Eep, eep. And now decoration, honey. And now decoration, honey. Look. Well, I mean, I did what I could. Yeah, we're trying my best. I know it doesn't work. You know it doesn't work. You're not even unwrapping it. Naughty boy. Here we go. Roast shallot. Shallots. And this is peanut. And you just put it on top? Sprinkle. Make it like a salt blake. Salt blake. Like that? Yeah, drop it like that. Like that? Yeah. You know why I told you to cut? Because it's dead. So that it stands better. Charles, I need your finger. OK, stay. Cute. Yeah, we made it. Cute. The most amazing pad thai with shrimp prawns. I cannot let you eating burning pad thai, tada. You loom. I will offer this to customers in the hotel. It looks pretty good. You just want to get paid, you think? You just want to get paid. Charles, I want to taste your own food. Let me know what you think. I really want to find out if it's if sheffing is something I could do as a career. I'm proud of you. Do you like the texture? A little bit hard, but I like it. A little bit hard, but I like it. Perfect. Can I try myself? Yeah. I have. Look. Oh, everyone can try. Hey, hey, boys. All right, let me try. I made this. Yeah. Wow. The burning one. Yeah. And become really good. Yeah. Tada. Tada, the pad thai. Yes, pad thai. Try. Eh. The noodles texture is a bit hard. It's like al dente, but flavor is there, balanced. Not bad. OK. Not bad. Can I try the prawns? I can see their asses. Is that OK?  And now, if you know, if you cooked it right, there's some cream inside. For me, this is the prize position. For some people, it's not. Oh, you. Ooh. Mm. That's the best part of the shrimp. You did it to me last night. You do. Oh, you can use this one. Yeah, interesting. Tastes like cheese. Cheese of the sea. Yeah, cheese of the sea. Sea cheese. Yeah. Say cheese, Tada. No. Wow. I'll tell you. Do you want to try a bite of the... Come try this stuff. Yeah. What do you think? What do you think, Jesus? So sticky. Is that a compliment? Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. You passed the first lesson. I passed the first lesson. There's another one? What are we cooking if we do another one? We have a Thai dessert on the backside. Already prepared. But we can just pretend that I made it. Excuse me, excuse me. So unfortunately, we ran out of battery, but while we ran out of battery, we just made this amazing dessert. Just look at this. Stick your eyes with what? With the egg custard. What is it that I made? Should I just try it like that? And hot sugar? Yeah, whole thing. Oh, wow. I'm very good at cooking. Can you shout, Alexis? Yes, that's me. Here we go. Finally, he become a chef. So officially, yeah. Officially graduated. Thank you very much for the cooking class today. We appreciate it. It's been fun. Let's do more later.


The Hallmark Playhouse, which is heard during most of the year at this time on Thursdays, has nearly finished its summer vacation. Be with us when Hallmark Playhouse returns to CBS four weeks from tonight on September 7. Now from Hollywood, it's time for Edmund O'Brien as... Johnny Dollar. I'm glad you're in, Dollar. This is Barton, Chief Adjutant at Cosmopolitan All-Risk. When can I see you? I hope it doesn't have to be tonight. I'm ready for bed. I'm afraid it does have to be tonight. I just got a call from a city fire inspector. There's a four-alarm place in the Hartford Alliance building. We carry the fire policy. Does Inspector phone you? Does he suspect arson? More than that, they picked up the man who said it. That policy is for over $300,000. I'd like you to sit in while this guy makes his statement. Okay, Barton. I'll meet you there. Edmund O'Brien in another adventure of the man with the action-pact expense account. America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office Cosmopolitan All-Risk Insurance Company. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the Hartford Alliance matter. Expense account item one, 250 cab fare from my apartment to the scene of the fire. I couldn't see over here. Out of Han's way. Hey, that building was a bad risk. Is there any steel in it? Yeah, maybe a little in the plumbing, but it's no worse than most in this neighborhood. Somebody's got to ensure them. Who owns it? His name is Clarence Pickett. I don't know too much about him. I understand the blaze started there in the ground floor corner office. Yeah, that's right. The Hartford Alliance loan company. An off-duty policeman saw it start as he was driving by and then grabbed this kid as he was heading it down the alley. A kid? Yeah, about 19 or so. They took him down, but we can question him when they get through. And they're sure he's the one. He was running away. Hey, look at the wall below the second floor window. Yeah, he's here. Get out of there.  Expense account item two, a dollar and 75 cents cab fare to police headquarters where I met Sergeant Broderick, the officer in charge.  I don't know what you'll get out of him. He wouldn't even give us a name to book him under. There's nothing on him that would identify him? Nothing. He must have stripped his pockets.  I wish you luck. And this is it. You already mountain? I'm all over this. We're going in to talk to him. When we finish, I'll bring him out. He'll be in front of me. Right. What's that for? Get a photograph, snap one as he comes out the door. Can't get a halfway natural one any other way. Then we'll have it published and try to find out who he is. Go ahead. All right, son.  These men want to talk to you. Won't do you any good to talk to me. I don't want to talk about anything and I won't. Did you set that fire? Yeah, I set it. Why? It doesn't make any difference. Why, I set it and I'm ready to take anything that's coming to me. Have you set any other fires? If you mean am I one of those arson nuts, I'm not. And why'd you set it? Why do you keep asking me questions when I told you I wasn't going to answer any?  It may do it yet. I didn't think about that. I'm, I'm sorry. I had to do it. Why? I can't tell you. Leave me alone. Somebody hire you to do it? It doesn't make any difference. Why won't you tell us who you are? Because I don't want you to know. I don't want anybody to know who I am. I don't want a trial or anything.  Just give me what's coming to me and leave me alone. Let me see your hands. Why? Let me see them. No. Hey, let go. Will you let go? That's all I want. What was that for? I wanted to find out what kind of a kid he is. He's not tough. His hands are clean, nails trimmed. There's a mark left by a ring on a third finger left hand. Class rings, my guess. I've had enough of now, Sergeant. Okay. We're turning him over to the psychiatrist in the morning. All right, son, on your feet. I'm going to put you to bed now. Come on. Keep moving. Hold it now. Give me that, give me that camera. You can't take it. Pensacan item, free seven dollars. Transportation and general costs the next morning, spent while running down the financial condition of Mr. Clarance Pickett, owner of the burned out building. At one p.m., I look for him at his home, and at 1.45 I found him, viewing the charred remains of the Hartford Alliance building. Mr. Pickett, you were pointed out to me by one of the workmen. My name is Dala. I'm working for Cosmopolitan All Risk. I suppose there is as trouble as I am over this. My office was right there, the corner one on the third floor. It's right over the spot where the fire started. Yes, so I've been advised. And I was reminded as to how many nights I've been working there. At the hour it broke out. You haven't assayed the loss already. It's not my job, Mr. Pickett. I'm not an adjuster. I'm a private investigator. Oh, well I suppose under conditions such as we find ourselves, it'd be reasonable to expect investigation. Who is that strange boy? And why did he do this thing? You've seen his picture in the paper there. I was gonna ask you if you knew him. I? Well, of course I did. What were your insinuations, young man? Look, Mr. Pickett, the conditions as you call them are not at all clear. An insurance company feels it as a right to make plenty of insinuations when it's up against the fire of incendiary origin. Go on. I was able to learn this morning that financially, you are not a healthy man. You rotten snoop. You've taken some pretty heavy losses on the exchange in the past few months. I've dealt in stocks, bonds and property for a long time. When the day comes that I have to burn myself out to recoup my losses, I'll go away. I don't want to talk to you any further. I'm afraid it can't stop here.  I will not. Why won't you? Because I have no reason to. I've never seen him. I don't care. On the strength of your refusal, I think a court order could force you to. You do that. I certainly would. So you have nothing to lose by coming without one. Very well, Mr. Daller. And I'll see you choke on your own insults. Sit down, Mr. Pickett. I want you to understand that this is routine procedure and in no way an accusation of any kind. No, Ross. A few words to whitewash a violation of my rights. Help yourself to the desk chair, Daller. Thank you. All right, Dr. Herbert. Will you bring the boy in now? Mr. Pickett, Mr. Daller, our psychiatrist, Dr. Herbert. How do you do, doctor? Gentleman. All right, son. Remember this is serious. Now, have you ever seen this man before? Yes, I have. What? Tell me who he is. He owns the building. Hired me to set the fire. But that's not true. He gave me $50 and promised me 50 more. But he's lying. I've never seen him before in my life. Why would he lie? How should I know? Because he's insane. He's trying to use me to hide something else. Son, where is the money? I spent it. I didn't get the other 50. He's a wolf. He lies. It sounds like a scheme of the police. Where it will not be as easy as that. I'll not put up with another moment. I'll see Council before I speak with you again. I couldn't hold him. We can pick him up later. Either of you want any more with this one? I'll see him later this afternoon. Nothing for me right now. All right, son. Come on. We'll go back to that room and talk some more. What do you think, doctor? There is a greatly troubled and very confused young man. I could do very little to help him. A psychiatrist needs cooperation. He fought me every moment of the consultation. You think he was telling the truth about Pickett? It's hard to say. It could be true. On the other hand, as a falsehood, it could be classed as one aspect of this truth. A tremendously strong desire to keep some secret hidden. How would he know that Pickett was the owner of the building? That would be quite simple. The newspaper was shown to him this morning in an effort to force him to reveal his identity. Yeah, that's right. There's still no key to who he is, eh? None. I've learned only that he seems to be, what should we say, a well-bred boy, fairly well-educated, who was tortured by something in the building that he feared and hated. The fire started in the offices of the Hartford Alliance loan company. Do you think a debt that the boy couldn't pay off would be a strong enough motive to drive him to arson? Oh, unless it were a debt of shame. No. Well, we have to start someplace. Loan company is a better lead than what we've had so far. Say, you're sure the kid isn't making this up that he's not a psychopathic? The psychopath is only an emotionally immature individual. And two of us can say that we have reached emotional maturity all what it is. After hearing the doctor out to the bitter end, I knew no more about the arson case than I'd known before. Expense count item 4, $1.75, cab fare, back to the ruins of the Hartford Alliance building.  I wouldn't come in here if I were you.  Are you all right? What do you want? Now, I got no key from the guards out there. I'm an investigator working on this case. Oh, go ahead then. This loan outfit hired me to bring out this stuff that isn't burned, but it's all mixed up with the stuff from upstairs. Caved in. Yes, fires are a mess. And a safe from up there fell through, and I can't tell one from the other. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole floor came next. What's left of it? What are you looking for? I don't know. What was upstairs? An employment agency from what I picked up, maids and butlers and that kind of thing. There's a one safe and that's the other. Can you tell them apart? Why don't you take both of them out and open them? Yeah, well, all right. Give me a hand then, will you? Sure. This one's almost covered up. Hey, what's that? Sounds like a timber. Let's move. Higher stuff above. Yeah. Yeah, there's someone up there. Come on this way. Come on. Hey! Hey, you up there! Hey! Hey! The highest standard of living, the highest wages and the shortest hours. All this plus the time-honored guarantee of individual freedom. Where else will you find all these advantages, but under our American economic system? Help to preserve that system. It has brought more benefits to more people than any other system ever devised. Now with our star, Edmund O'Brien, we return to the second act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Oh, Rotten. How about the workman? Bad. I guess I feel better than he does. Hey, Barton, that cave-in was no accident. What's that? There was a man on the floor above us. It's one of the last things I remember. He was looking down at us holding a crowbar. Why didn't you say something about it yesterday? I wasn't thinking straight. You don't have to crack in the head like that. I began to remember last night. I guess it'll be hard to prove. There were two safes in there. One from the Hartford Alliance loan company and the other from the Hartford Alliance employment agency. It had fallen through from the office above. I don't get it. I don't either. But we just decided to move both of them out because you couldn't tell them apart without looking at their contents. And that's when the roof fell in. And you're trying to work out a connection. Oh, I don't know. Say, what about the kid? Has he been identified? Not much. I wouldn't build a case on it yet. I'll try some more coffee and aspirin and when I can make it, I'll go down and talk to the kid again. Howdy here, will you? I'd like to. I wish I'd never heard of you, much less senior. But it's my job to clean this thing up. That means putting as much evidence as I can get into the hands of the people who hired me. So settled back. I might be working on you until you're middle-aged. Picket hired me. I told you that. Speaking as an insurance man, I'd like to believe that's true. But I don't think it is. I think something in the building was behind that fire. He paid me to do it.  I don't know. I don't know anything about that. Picket hired me. What does the Hartford Alliance loan company mean to you? Nothing. I don't know anything about it. Or the Hartford Alliance Employment Agency? It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. Nothing does. I can't tell you anything. I... Leave me alone, will you? I can't tell you anything. Please. Leave me alone. His silence stopped paying off and his picture in the paper started to. A woman phoned in to say that she thought she recognized him. And at six that evening I was standing on her doorstep in the little resort village of Pine Orchard. Mrs. Landry? Yes. My name is Dollar.  Oh, yes, Mr. Dollar. Won't you come in? Thank you. It was just the strangest thing about the way I happened to see that Hartford paper. Nobody out here takes it, you know. But I went down to the drugstore to buy a movie magazine and something just pulled my eyes to this paper and there was Billy Brandon. You're sure of it? I've known him since he was a tyke. I worked for his people, you know. That was before Mrs. Brandon passed on three years ago. I can't imagine what could have got into Billy to be in such awful trouble. Is his father still alive? Oh, my, yes, a splendid man. And they live here in Pine Orchard? Only in the summer. They're from Chicago. But they have a huge estate here, loads of money. Mr. Brandon is in Florida fishing. Poor man, I don't suppose he even knows. The police are trying to locate him. Yes, I just don't know what to think of it. How could Billy cause his poor father such shame? Mrs. Landry, do you know if there's anyone on the estate now that I could talk to? Nobody that lives in. Mr. Meek, the gardener, lives just down the street. He told me just yesterday that that woman who kept out there left her job without so much as locking up the house. Who is she? They're maid, an out-of-town girl. From your home, Hartford, some employment agency sender. Employment agency? That's what Mr. Meek told me. Mrs. Landry, do you know if it was the Hartford Alliance Employment Agency? The Lyon, yes, that was it. It's their business, I suppose, but there are plenty of good girls right here in town. Mrs. Landry, what was her name, do you know? No, I don't, but Mr. Meek lives just down the street. He'd know. It turned out to be Belle Muir. And with that information, I pride Sergeant Broderick loose from a friendly poking aim after I'd gotten back to Hartford. I met him in the fire room at headquarters. Come on in, darling, we'll see what we can dig up. Now, give me your theory again, will you? And according to your psychiatrist, young Brandon was afraid of something in that building. It would seem that somebody else was afraid to see one of the two safe sleeves. How sure are you of that? I saw a man pry the wall loose. Did you identify him? Probably not, I just caught a flash. But the fact that the Brandons had hired a girl from the agency sort of falls into place, doesn't it?  We'll see. You want to check our files on the girl, right? Both the girl and the manager of the agency, Benjamin Price. What's her name again? Bellmure, M-U-I-R. M-U... Here it is. Here's a mure, Adelaide. How's that for a record? Look at that, they never learn. Mullen, mullen, that's it, no more mures. Can we try Price now? Sure, here's the mail file over here. Price, price, a... Adolf. Dollar. Benjamin? Benjamin L. Benjamin L... Yeah, here he is. What do you know about that? What's on him? 1939, suspected of fraud, no indictment. 1944, suspected of receiving stolen goods, no indictment. Suspicion of fraud again in 48, no indictment. What about young Brandon? Can I talk to him? He won't do any good tonight. He's in the hospital under sedatives. You can't help feeling sorry for him, at least I can. Especially if it's blackmail. Yeah, I know. His father's due in tomorrow afternoon. Maybe he can do something with him. Well, I'll see if I can get authorization from the Bunco detail to follow this through. Tomorrow we'll look into that setup. Do you care if I go ahead tonight? Where you going? Bellmure's. Why start with her? Couple of reasons. With a background of suspicions, but no indictments like that, Price must be smart. And I'd like her to talk to him before I do. Put him on guard and see what his next move will be. OK, darling, there's no way I can stop you. You've been lucky so far. Don't foul it up now. Lucky? Don't trade you my headache for your polka losses any day. The discovery of Benjamin Price's name in the police file wasn't the only development to take place at headquarters. The desk sergeant had a message which he passed along just before I left. The workman who had been with me in the office when the wall had come down on us had died of his injuries. It wasn't just an arson case any longer. I found Bellmure at home, the ground floor apartment, low income neighborhood. Her reaction when I introduced myself gave me nothing. She invited me in, apologized for some nylons drying on the back of the chair, and invited me to sit down. I can't believe that Mr. Brandon would do such a thing. Why would he? I think he was being blackmailed. Oh, a nice young man like him. I don't think he'd ever do anything he could be blackmailed for. He's too nice. Have you ever heard of anybody but people with nice reputations standing still for blackmail? Oh, I can't believe it. And I don't understand about the fire. Why would he do that? To try and stop the blackmailers. Now, you're the only connection we've found between the building and the Brandon's. I hoped you could help us. I don't know anything about it. You got your job with the Brandon's through the Hartford Alliance Employment Agency? Yeah, I've been signed with them for over a year. Is there any way they could have gotten a hold of any information they could use against the boy? I don't see how. And I swear, I don't know what it could be. Young Mr. Brandon was almost too nice of you. I don't know what I mean. Well, just what do you mean? Well, I've had trouble with some of these spoiled rich men's sons. Mr. Brandon never looked twice at me. Listen, you don't think that I... Why'd you leave your job so suddenly, Miss Mueller? I didn't. I'm still employed. But when his father ran off to Florida and young Mr. Brandon said he was going away, I didn't see any youths cooling my heels in that place away from my friends. Uh-huh, sure. I think you're barking up the wrong tree, Mr. Dollar. They're all nice people in the agency, everyone. Mr. Price, the manager? He's very nice. He is quite a record of being questioned by the police. I don't believe that. It's true. Well, I never would have suspected it. I don't know what to think of this, Mr. Dollar. I really don't. I don't either, Miss Mueller. I won't take any more of your time. Thanks a lot. Well, anything I can do to help, please crawl on me. I said I would and left the apartment. But I got back to a position outside her door in time to hear a phone dialed and a conversation that started, he was here. Proof of blackmail is hard to get without the cooperation of the victim, which is also hard to get. But it looked more and more like that lay behind the trouble. The next morning I decided to try my luck with Benjamin Price. Mr. Price? That's right. My name is Dollar. I'm investigating the fire in your building for the insurance company. What do you want from me? I didn't light it. It's funny you should say that. Why? Because in a way I think you did. You can suspect blackmail all you want. That's one thing making it stick as another. I guess Belle won't be much of a witness against you, will she? Best kind I can think of. We're gonna get married. She's loyal. So why don't you drop it, Dollar? You won't get any place. You feel a little different now than you did when we were moving your safe out of that building. You must have gotten rid of the evidence. I don't get you. Yes, you do. I saw you. Don't you remember I yelled at you?  The man who was with me, the workman, died yesterday afternoon. With a blackmail, it should work into a first degree murder charge. You're going pretty far, aren't you? Not as far as the men from the police laboratory are going. They're looking for marks from a crowbar and that rubble that came down on us. And they're pretty good. Watch where you talk this stuff up, Dollar. I'm warning you. I don't scare easy and I don't railroad easy. Then what are you worried about?  Now beat it. Go on. I wish you hadn't gone to him, Dollar. You said yourself he was smart. He is, but he's guilty, too. I recognize him and he knows it. What about the father? Well, he got in a little afternoon. He's a pretty important man in Chicago, an ex-public defender. Defense lawyer now with one of the biggest private practices there. I'm sure he would be. Yeah, this is the room. We, uh, moved him out of the ward. Mr. Brandon, this is Mr. Dollar from the insurance company. How do you do? Mr. Brandon. Well, I understand that you've done a great deal of work on this situation. And I feel that it's fair to tell you that neither my son or I will make any kind of statement until we take the query under the fullest consideration. That's all right with me, Mr. Brandon. I just left Benjamin Price. You did? Yeah. From his attitude, I take it that the basis of his blackmail is pretty strong. Blackmail? I see no reason for that word to enter the conversation. You're not in the courtroom now, Mr. Brandon. You're in a hospital room where your son has been kept under sedatives because of an almost complete nervous breakdown. Price is convinced that you'll sacrifice your son rather than give us proof that we'll clean this up. He threw that in my face. Mr. Dollar is an insurance investigator. What is your interest in this case at the moment? Your son has tried to involve an innocent man. The company that hired me would be liable to slander if they tried to build a case on his accusations. And you know the insurance companies. I do, indeed. I can promise you that we'll dig into your son's background and your background until we get the answers we want. Dad... Just a moment, Will. If you let Price get through this one untouched, where do you think he'll stop, Mr. Brandon? Dad, make him go. I can't stand anymore. I don't care about myself, but I don't want... Well, let me handle this. Mr. Dollar, you must realize that my son acted under severe emotional strain.  No, you couldn't. He started something that caused a man's death. Dad, don't let him talk anymore. Just leave me alone and I'll take care of it. I've done it all right so far. Yeah, you've done a fine job. Bill, I think it's gone far enough. It has to stop sometime. But, Dad... Dollar, my son was involved in a traffic accident in Chicago two years ago. He was drunk. Woman was killed. There was a witness and I paid him to perjure himself in our favor. Bill was acquitted. Price found out about that? Yes. This man... Well, his name isn't important now. He continued to extort money from me. He phoned at the house in Pine Orchard and the maid overheard. I didn't know Bill knew about it until today. She didn't know I was there and I listened to her talk about it. The first one was bad enough, but then with another one I had to do something... Did you make a payment to the maid? No, somebody else. A man. Did you recognize him? Yes. Would you identify him if we took you to him? Yes. The rest, as far as I was concerned, came 20 minutes later when Mr. Brandon, Sergeant Broderick and I stood in front of Benjamin Price's door. Well, Dollar, haven't you caused... That's the man. Who is this guy? What is this? Get out of here. I think we better come in, Price. No, you don't. I know my rights. You don't come in without a warrant. We got a warrant. What do you want in here? All we want is you, Price. There's a man waiting outside. I want to place you at the scene of the murder. I can't do it. I wasn't there. You'll have your chance to prove that if you can. The man want to go through your apartment. Why? To look for traces of soot from the building. All they need is a speck or two. Come on, Price. Let's talk it over. Not me. Oh, you know you don't, Price? Does it... Okay, pick him up, Dollar. Don't bother to be gentle. He won't care. Expense account item 6, $40, Miss Heleneus. Item 7, $2.50 cab fare back to my apartment. I guess the company won't get far trying to avoid the payment of damages. But all of us might make a moral out of the matter. Maybe somebody has said it before. One sin begets another. In this case, the original conspiracy that perjurer witnessed parlayed to a narsan indictment. The son, fraud and murder for Price and Belmure, and enough charges to put the father out of work for the duration. All I got out of it was a headache. Expense account total, $180. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role, and is written by Gil Dowd with music composed and conducted by Leith Stephens. Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen starring in the Columbia Pictures production, 7-Eleven Ocean Drive. Featured in the night's cast, never back, Ken Christie, Raymond Burr, Gil Stratton Jr., Howard McNeer, Ted Osborne, and Peggy Weber. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, is produced and directed by Jaime Delvalle. There will be a new adventure with Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's famous private eye on most of these same CBS stations this Friday night. Shrewd, hard-boiled, given to the wisecrack, Philip Marlowe will bring you a solid half-hour of thrills Friday night on CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Thanks for watching.