Hey man, so there you are in John chapter 9. We're going to look at that story tonight in John chapter 9 where Jesus heals the blind man. But I want to pick up the last few verses of John chapter 8 if you would just to catch, not leave anything behind in our study through John here. I want to pick up John chapter 8 and verse number 45. Of course Jesus is having this great back and forth with the Pharisees here in John chapter 8. But look at verse number 45. Let's just do a little bit of a study for a few minutes before we get into the story of the blind man. We're going to take a couple of weeks at least to look at that story of the blind man and we'll start that tonight. But look down to John chapter 8 and verse number 45 to look at the end of chapter number 8. The Bible says in because I tell you the truth you believe me not. So of course we looked last week at the truth that Jesus was saying here and always pointing out the truth. Which of you convinced with me of sin? And if I say the truth why do you not believe me? Look at verse 47. Jesus says he that is of God heareth God's words. He therefore hear them not because ye are not of God. So Jesus here is saying to the Pharisees he's saying ye are not of God and what does he mean by that? The Pharisees I'm going to show you in just a few verses down that they're claiming, you know they claim chapter number 9 they claim Moses. In this chapter they're claiming Abraham. They're saying that they're of God because of their lineage who they're related to. And Jesus is telling them you are not of God. He's saying ye meaning a plural group of people these Pharisees you're not of God. Then answered the Jews and said unto him say we not well that thou art a Samaritan not as the devil. Now they're just getting mean. Jesus answered I have not a devil but I honor my father and ye do dishonor me. He's just kind of showing this contrast of how you know they are completely different than him. So one of them is a liar is what Jesus is pointing out. He says I seek not my own glory there is one that seeketh and judgeeth verily verily again truly truly I say unto you if a man keep my saying he shall never see death. And they just have no idea what he's talking about. Verse 52 it says the Jews said unto him now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead and the prophets and thou sayest if a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death. So they don't even understand spiritual life from spiritual death because again they bring up Abraham saying you know he says that you will never see death if you know he if a man keep my saying if you believe on him you'll never see death.  They're saying well Abraham is dead are you saying that you know Abraham you know didn't see death. But Jesus is talking spiritually here. He's talking about you know the second death as Revelation talks about that we bring up when we're out soul winning and they just completely miss everything. Look at verse 53 are thou greater than our father Abraham which is dead and the prophets are dead. Whom makeest thou thyself? So he's saying what are you talking about all these great men of God who you would even say are men of God are dead is what they're saying. Jesus answered if I honor myself my honor is nothing it is my father that honoreth me of whom ye say that he is your God. So if you take verse number 54 up there with verse number 47 where he says ye are not of God he's saying that's what he meant he's saying like look you're saying you're of God but you are not of God. You know they're saying oh because Abraham is our father because we have that genealogy that he's our God.  He's saying God my father honors me is what Jesus is saying. Look at verse 55. Yet ye have not known him. He's like you have no idea who God is is what Jesus is saying to them but I know him and if I should say I know him not I shall be a liar like unto you but I know him and keep his saying.  Look at verse 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad. Now he's hidden close to home. Now he's saying oh this father Abraham this genealogy this forefather of yours that you're claiming he's like I know him I've met him before then said to Jews unto him they are not yet 50 years old and now has seen Abraham turn to Genesis chapter 14 turn to Genesis chapter 14 this is really what I want to point out before we jump into John chapter 9 I don't want to leave this one behind but Jesus says a couple things here in the last couple verses of John chapter 9 he's basically going to say like hey I was before Abraham but he's also going to he's also telling them I've literally met Abraham look at Genesis chapter 14 in verse number 17 there's kind of this neat little story that I kind of like you know how sometimes you get stories in the Old Testament or if you didn't have you know a little bit more explanation in the New Testament you really wouldn't think much of it so if you've read this story in Genesis which it's funny because I had read Genesis many times before I've actually read the whole Bible so I'd read the story many times in Genesis before I'd read the whole Bible look at Genesis 14 17 it says this is when Abraham takes his men and he goes and he rescues Lot from these invaders and the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Tadoralomer and the kings that were with him and at the valley of Cheve which is the Kingsdale and McKilsadec the king of Salem brought forth bread and wine so we see this this man the king of Salem he's called here and he was the priest of the most high God so in verse 18 we see that McKilsadec king of Salem and the priest of the most high God goes out to meet Abraham and he blessed him and said blessed be Abraham of the most high God possessor of heaven and earth of course God being the possessor of heaven and earth and blessed be the most high God which had delivered thine enemies into thy hand and he gave him tithes of all so it's interesting because I mean if you understand who he is and who's doing what here basically this McKilsadec king of Salem priest of the most high God kind of seems to come out of nowhere here in Genesis chapter 14 and for some reason he blesses Abraham and he tells him that you know God gave you this God gave you this great victory and then Abraham gives 10% of all the spoil to this priest to this man to the king of Salem and that's really all we get from the story in Genesis and then we see in verse 21 through 23 which I'll just read for you I'm really going to dig into something else on that on Sunday morning but the king of Sodom now who's really this wicked king I mean he's this wicked king and Abraham wants to have nothing to do with him Abraham was there to rescue you know his nephew right and the king of Sodom said unto Abraham give me the persons and take the goods to thyself so he's already given 10% of the spoil to McKilsadec king of Salem and Abraham said to the king of Sodom I've lift up my hand unto the Lord the most high God the possessor of heaven and earth that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet and that I will not take anything that is thine less thou should say I have made Abraham rich so Abraham basically says I don't want any of it so I don't want any of it and I'm going to talk to you about why he said that on Sunday morning but now turn to Hebrews chapter 5 turn to Hebrews chapter number actually go to Hebrews chapter number 7 so we see that this guy kind of comes out of nowhere this king of Salem and you know Abraham like clearly understands who he is and we don't we're not really told who he is in Genesis chapter 14 but Abraham gives him ties of everything he's the priest of the most high God the the Bible says but look down at verse number 1 of Hebrews chapter 7 I'm going to first read for you Hebrews 5 6 where the Bible says as he saith also in another place thou art a priest forever after the order of McKilsadec so here we see in Hebrews we're getting this idea that there's a new priesthood coming in so there was the priesthood there was the Levitical priesthood that we read about in the Old Testament where they would do all the sacrifices and do all the ceremonies and do all these things and I preach through that a lot on how all that foreshadows Christ but now Hebrews is talking about how there's this there's another order of priesthood coming now look at Hebrews chapter 7 in verse number 1 for this McKilsadec now look at this king of Salem so now we see that we're talking about the same McKilsadec that Abraham gave ties to the king of Salem priest of the most high God the exact description given to him in Genesis chapter 14 when this guy suddenly comes out of nowhere and Abraham just reverences him and gives him tithes of everything who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him just what we read to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all first being by interpretation king of righteousness and after that also king of Salem which is king of peace so now we're getting a bunch more detail here on who this guy was you say okay yes king of Salem that's what Genesis 14 said priests of the most high God that's what Genesis 14 said but now it says king of righteousness whoa you're like what's that all about and then it's king of peace now look at verse number 3 and really this answers the question for us here without a doubt who this McKilsadec was in Genesis chapter 14 says without father without mother without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life who was this this was an Old Testament appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ so when Jesus Christ is talking to the Pharisees in John chapter 8 he's like oh yeah Abraham this name they just keep dropping this name their name dropping you know it's got to be irritating for Jesus they're sitting here name dropping Abraham all the time and Jesus is like I know him I've met him I've literally met him before and they're just like Abraham this Abraham this and they're like you're you know you're not even talking to we're not even talking about the same God you're not even of this God that you claim to be of and Jesus is like I've literally met him before now consider how great this man was unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the 10th of the spoils Abraham knew who he was to this is what the Bible is telling us here go back to John chapter 8 that's what Jesus is talking about he's saying that Abraham saw my day he knew who I was he knew I was coming and he's watching this whole thing from heaven this is what Jesus is telling the Pharisees and they understand none of it Jesus said unto them in verse 58 verily verily I say unto you now he gets even further with it he says before Abraham was I am of course I am is a name for God in the Bible but he's basically saying like I wasn't created I was before him they said you're not even 50 years old how could you know Abraham he's like I was before Abraham just as Hebrews chapter 5 says that he had neither beginning of days nor end of life then took they up stones to cast at him but Jesus hit himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so passed by so I just wanted to point out that exchange there at the end with the Pharisees and Jesus just showing like is very clear I mean if you're you're we're only in John chapter 8 so far in this study and it's very clear that the Pharisees know exactly who Jesus is claiming to be and this is why they are upset and trying to kill him because he's literally claiming to be God and he just says it again and again and again and just different ways but they know exactly what he's talking about they know exactly what he is claiming they don't believe it but they know what he's saying look at John chapter 9 and let's look at this next story in the book of John John chapter 9 look down at verse number 1 this is a very important story in the Bible there's a lot of things to learn here we're going to take a couple weeks to look at this story of this blind man but there's about three or four verses here that we're going to get into and then I want to go back and really just do a sermon on this these verses here at the very beginning of this story but let's read through to about verse number 7 and then we'll go back and talk about this this evening the Bible says this in John 9 1 and Jesus passed by he saw a man which was blind from his birth and the disciples asked him saying master who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind Jesus answered neither had this man sinned nor his parents that the works of God should be made manifest in him I must work the works of him that sent me which is we're talking about God the father who is just talking to the Pharisees about while it is day the night cometh when no man can work as long as I am in the world I am the light of the world when he had thus spoken he spat on the ground made clay of the spittle and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay and he said in him go wash in the pool of salome which is by interpretation sent and he went his way therefore and washed and came seeing so he heals this man and we're going to look at this story and the reactions to this great miracle in the next couple of weeks but tonight I want to go back to the very beginning and I want to look at the conversation that Jesus had the very brief conversation in verse number two and verse number three that Jesus had with his own disciples about this man before he even healed this man so this man in verse number nine the the verse number one of chapter number nine he was blind his whole life so this man was an adult but he had been blind from birth he didn't become blind he didn't get in some farming accident or whatever or welding without a helmet he was born blind okay he was just blind and his disciples asked him saying master I mean this is really kind of a shocking question but I really want to show you that you know there's a lot of application for us this evening because a lot of people will do the same type of thing today look at verse number two is his disciples asked him saying master who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind so they kind of say something kind of dumb here they case say something kind of kind of insulting here at least you know at least they ask Jesus and not like you know the parents of the child or whatever but I mean they said something silly and then Jesus answers them back but this really want to look at this thing is you know why was this man blind why was this man blind and what was the reaction of you know Jesus to the disciples and what did he mean by that so you know when someone is born blind or born with a disability the question is who sinned turn to Romans chapter 8 turn to Romans chapter 8 now it's true that somebody can be born with a disability because someone sinned that that can happen there's many children out there unfortunately and it's very sad cases where you know parent the mother did drugs or did was drinking alcohol during the pregnancy and the children that are born have very serious problems because of that sin that is true and I couldn't actually find like percentages on you know children with disabilities that were I'm sure you could find it out there somewhere maybe I should have asked you know the Google AI or whatever but you know the point is this that is not all you know children with disabilities not even close okay it's not just because someone sinned look at Romans chapter 8 for the first reason here look at Roman chapter 8 verse number 18 the Bible says for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time so here Paul is saying like you know there's just gonna be suffering in this life in this life that we're living there's suffering the prayer the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which I'll be revealed in us so he's saying whatever we suffer through in this earth you know in this body whatever it is is gonna be nothing compared to the glory the the opposite of suffering that we have when we get eternal you know when we're in eternity with Christ for the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God so it's saying we're all in these fleshly bodies but we're waiting for this you know incorruptible we're waiting for this resurrection right we're waiting for heaven look at verse number 20 for the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption don't miss this okay he's talking about the creature what he's kind of talking about here is like creation he's talking about you know the created beings alright because the creature itself shall be delivered from the bondage of the corruption so what is he saying he's saying the creation is in bondage the creation is corrupted right now the creation is not perfect but it's going to go into the glorious liberty of the children of God this is the difference between the way things are going to be you know in the millennial reign and then into eternity in the new heaven and the new earth compared to how it is now but right now the creature the creation is in this corrupted state that's what the Bible is saying here and then in verse 22 kind of sums it up it says for we know that the whole creation growneth and travaileth in pain together until now in Romans 5 12 you know the Bible basically says death passed upon all men you know one man sinned and death passed upon this is when the curse came in when the first man sinned against God the creation then entered this cursed state that's what Romans chapter 8 is showing us it's talking about the curse of creation things there's death now everything's not perfect now there's death there's sickness there's disease there's all these things now so look while sin can certainly cause you know something like this blind man birth defects disabilities you know through drugs drinking whatever is definitely not always the case probably you know not even I'm sure the majority of the case is caused by those things disabilities happen in a fallen creation is what the Bible is teaching us here he's just it's just part of the curse it's just part of the curse so tonight is really want to talk about you know how to respond to disabilities especially when you see someone with a child that has disabilities or is disabled from birth you know how how are we to react to that look at the verse number two verse number two so here's how not to react to just assume that someone sinned like the disciples did and asking Jesus who sinned and you know this man was blind from birth who sinned so that's the wrong way to do that so if you have seen somebody or know somebody that has a child that's disabled or even an adult that has been disabled from birth like this man the first thing well I mean first of all I looked it up like it's pretty crazy but one in six one in six children that are born have like a developmental disability one in six I mean that's not a few you know that's not a small number that's you know that's that's over 20% you know one in six right no it's less than 20% but it's like you know 15 to 20% alright almost got my math wrong there but the point is that's a lot it's a lot of people it's a lot of children that are born with a developmental disability now look at verse number go to Matthew chapter seven and verse number one so the first reaction that you should have when you see you know maybe somebody you know maybe a friend maybe family member that has a child has a one of these one in six children born is just be thankful for God's mercy in your life if you haven't experienced that just be thankful that you know you haven't experienced that but I want to point out Matthew chapter seven and I want to kind of give a kind of a a a different application of Matthew chapter seven in verse number one kind of giving you some advice on how you should react now you should not react when you meet someone with one of these one and six alright look at Matthew chapter seven verse number one the Bible says judge not that you be not that you be not judged so if you would see somebody that had a child with a disability and you would immediately think like well they had something wrong or God's upset with them or whatever you're judging in that case and you're not judging righteous judgment in that case look at verse number two it says for with what judgment you judge ye shall be judged this is kind of scary when you apply it to this type of scenario and what measure you meet it shall be measured to you again and why behold us the moat that is in my brother's eye but consider us not the beam that is in 909 obviously talking about hypocrisy here or how would how would I say to that brother let me pull the mode out of thine eye behold a beam is in 909 I've preached about this talking about hypocrisy many times thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye then shall thou clearly see to cast out the moat out of thy brother's eye you see a sister application of this verse right here you know aside from hypocrisy is that if you haven't walked in those shoes if you haven't walked in the shoes of the the the people that are walking in the shoes of being parents of somebody with a child with a disability you should you should be silent about it that's that's the application of Matthew chapter seven upon what the disciples asked Jesus here see the problem today and maybe always the problem I don't know but the problem today is and look people are way too happy to give advice today and maybe it's always been this way but it's a definite problem today people and I have talked about this as well it's it's ironic but it's true that the people that many times want to give advice are the least qualified to give that advice so you need to be very careful in your life who you're taking advice from first of all that's a side note and I preach a sermon on that you know don't don't be taken advice from the divorce guy that wants to give married device advice constantly and you find that guy but the point is people are just way too happy to give advice people are too happy to give opinions on things that they know nothing about now let's just talk about our crowd like our not just us but our crowd of people that we hang out with our people great people great people are you know Christians Bible-believing Christians across the country we see them we know them you know these are our brothers and sisters in Christ look things that we talk about all the time are like you know there's a lot of environmental things around us that are bad there's a lot of things that are bad for our health there's a lot of you know food sugar you know gluttony is a real thing in the Bible I mean gluttony is a major problem in this country I get it gluttony is like the thing you know and all the junk people are doing to themselves and look there's even a lot of problems with the the industrial medical complex today that we talk about and I'll even talk about those things in light of the Bible but here's what you need to really understand looking at this verse number two in the Bible here don't think that makes you some kind of expert for other people because and I've said this before and I want you all to listen very carefully if you want friends if you want friends look if you don't want people to dislike you you just you will never give unsolicited advice to people you will never just walk up to people and just start you know answering questions that you weren't asked like it if you do that look if you do that people are not going to like you that that's just it and and and with this one with this one especially medical advice I mean with this one even more on top of this even more on top of this if you don't want people to instantly despise you don't ever give parents of a disabled child advice on or even your opinion if it's not asked for I mean I'm glad these disciples as Jesus and not anybody else that was around but we just we live in this era of experts today you know everybody in these self-righteous people you know people get so self-righteous because look people are way too eager to give advice on the things that they're least qualified to do so example of this YouTube YouTube that's that's that's much of YouTube right there is people giving advice that they are not qualified to give and look watching YouTube doesn't make you an expert on anything that's what we need to realize I mean there are YouTube videos where you can you can go and find YouTube videos of someone these are serious videos where people are seriously saying stuff where they're saying that eating full sticks of butter is good for you just just dip it in spaghetti sauce and eat full sticks of butter it's real like there's really people that say there's people that say things like you know the best a news a new special workout where you don't have to work out very long you don't have to work out like because look it's painful to work out for 30 minutes or 45 minutes or whatever you can work out in four minutes all you have to do is punch yourself and slap your muscles all over the place as hard as you can and it gives you that it gives you that you know that response or whatever like this is real stuff you can find people saying this they're not joking they're not laughing they they're just they're probably selling something most of the time they're probably butter salesmen or whatever you know I mean there's there's one where like this guy like he's like you know you you don't have to work out you can just inject oil in like some kind of oil into your muscles the guys like this huge like looks like you know it looks like a monster you know it's like yeah you could be like me and it's like I mean these are these are stupid things but there's a lot of dangerous stuff out there too there's a lot of dangerous stuff there's like all kinds of like alternative treatments to serious disease and all these different types of things I remember one of the funniest one of the funniest examples of this Pastor Thompson was given a sermon one time and he was like he was like deathly ill he had like pneumonia or something and somebody just comes up to him with like unsolicited exactly what I'm talking about like unsolicited medical advice he's like needs to be hospitalized and they're like you need to just put garlic in your socks and he's like you know I got to go to the doctor you know or you know it's just look do this to never get sick and all these different things look watch what you want and you do what you want but until you've walked in those shoes just be silent you know don't tempt the Lord by the way you know don't tempt God I mean the worst thing that you could do as a friend of somebody especially with a child with disabilities it was number one assume it was something the parents did wrong you think it was the vaccines you joke you joke I mean you laugh about that no I mean that would be the worst thing you could possibly say to somebody that had a child that was going through you know a disability or something like that you know I mean the first thing that you could the worst thing you can do is actually think that it was something that parents did wrong and the next worst thing you could do is actually say that say what you were thinking you know I mean in Proverbs 29 it says a fool utter it all his mind you know you should install we need to make sure we install a gate between our thoughts and what actually comes out of our mouth people are just gonna feel like you're a fool look they're gonna they're gonna be disgusted with you so the first thing is if you haven't walked in those shoes just praise God be thankful be a blessing be silent though just be quiet about it turn to John chapter 9 go back to verse number 3 John chapter 9 look at verse number 3 John chapter 9 look at verse number 3 Jesus answers the question and he doesn't get all upset and bent out of shape and he answers it pretty well and Jesus answered he says neither hath this man sinned he's like you're wrong it's not that this man sinned nor his parents but that the works of God should be made manifest in him it's saying this particular man God's gonna show his works through this man is what and I'll get back to that thought in just a minute but turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 so you say you know why does God allow it you know and I've already showed you that the creation has fallen that wasn't God's fault that the creation has fallen that there's imperfections that there's you know genetic things that happen that there's you know the creation is broken it's cursed it's corrupted for now it's not always gonna be that way but why does God allow it look at that that child and that child is innocent yes this is true but creation is still falling why does God allow it well God says here he's like the works of God are gonna be shown here in this man look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 look at verse number 9 so Paul he had a problem Paul had a problem and let me just turn there myself Paul had a problem he was sick he doesn't say why he was sick or what his sickness was but he tried he asked God to take this away from him it says in verse number 9 look at 2nd Corinthians chapter number 12 and verse number 9 I want to go back look at verse number 7 it says look at verse 5 it says of such and one you know one I will glory yet of myself I will not glory but in my infirmities so Paul is saying like look he had some kind of disability I mean you know what does a disability even mean I mean it's like I've got allergies that's a disability you know that's that's something that's wrong with me you know I'm allergic to certain things certain things you know make me get hives or whatever I had when I was younger I had asthma you know and I had to be hospitalized a couple times like that's I mean that was a serious thing my wife said to me the other day like she said meant meant she made a comment on the way we were talking about but she made the comment like it must be so terrible not to be able to breathe and I'm like it is terrible I can remember it feels like you're drowning like every single breath like you can just you can't hardly take a breath at all look that's a that's a disability thank God I don't have that anymore but it was a disability and look Paul said he had infirmities look at verse number six for though I would desire to glory I shall not be a fool for I will say the truth but now I forbear less any man should think of me above that he seeeth me to be or that he hearth of me and lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations there was given to me a thorn in the flesh so this is interesting he's saying so I don't get too high and mighty he's saying so I don't get too big headed or think I'm so great that God gave me all these revelations that Jesus took me into Arabia and taught me personally for three years God gave me some problems God gave me some pain he gave me some disabilities he gave me some suffering and he says there was given to me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure for this thing I be sought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me and he said unto me Jesus answered him your red letter Bible these are red words right here he says my grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made my grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness so right there is a is a great reason that you know disabilities exist right there and Jesus literally says it himself when he answers Paul about his disability or his sickness or whatever it was whatever was wrong with his physical body Jesus says no no no he's like my strength is made perfect in weakness what does that mean what does that mean what it means is this if we were always strong we would never recognize strength this is what it's talking about turn to judges chapter 2 I'll give you an example in the Bible if we were always healthy and we were always strong and there was never anyone even around us that was sick that had a disability that had anything I mean I get it the creation is cursed but if the creation wasn't cursed and everybody just had no problems at all you never saw a child with disabilities look we wouldn't appreciate strength that's what the Bible is saying look at judges chapter 7 in verse number 2 God literally put this into action when Gideon was going to defeat the Midianites look at verse number 2 we'll just look at one verse here the Bible says in verse number 2 Gideon's got all these men hundreds and hundreds of men and the word said unto Gideon the people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands God literally says to Gideon you're too strong here he says you're too strong I need you to be weaker so God goes through in the following verses he goes through this process where he just he sends these people home and he sends these people home until there's only 300 people left but last part of verse number 2 he says less Israel he explains why he doesn't he says less Israel vaunt themselves against me saying mine own hand hath saved me less Israel say yes we won why we won because we were strong so God is saying here my strength is going to be a perfect in your weakness is what he's saying to Gideon he's saying to Gideon exactly what he said to Paul look it takes weakness to recognize and appreciate strength have you ever heard the saying that guy doesn't know his own strength you know what that saying means it's talking about that saying is talking about some guy like I remember the book of mice and men or the guy like kills the it was at a mouse I think he actually killed that the animal or whatever on accident this guy was just so big and strong but the saying that guy doesn't know his own strength is talking about somebody who's just always been strong he's always been strong so he doesn't appreciate that everything around him and things and other people are not as strong as him he doesn't know his own strength he goes around he breaks things on accident because everything is not strong because it takes weakness to recognize strength if we were all super smart and never had any physical trouble we would never recognize trouble free times if there was no trouble and if there was just nothing but strength and intelligence so the lesson is that we just need to have compassion on people that have you know these weaknesses we need to recognize you know our own strengths when we see weakness and be thankful for that okay we need to have like compassion on children with disabilities there needs to be no judgment there's no room for there's no there's no place that's not a place for judgment that's not righteous judgment I remember that I mean we did we did foster care for two two and a half almost three years and one of the things that one of the things that I learned through that process was I learned a lot about people that were trying to adopt children and one thing that I saw one thing that just really made me sad throughout the entire process was that most people that want to adopt because many people in the foster program were doing foster care to hopefully adopt a child and I mean that was a decent portion because we had to take all these classes and we got to know all these people and a lot of them you'll find some people that it's kind of their mission to be faster look and I'm not defending the government or anything like that if that's not what this is about but we met these people some people were just they did it as their mission to have you know just to foster children just through their house and other people were trying to adopt through foster care because not everybody has $30,000 that's what it costs back then to adopt a child that's what it costs it's super expensive and guess what not everybody can afford that especially people that want to adopt a child so I can't tell you how many times one of the wonderful things that we always saw in those classes I think we lost count of how many parents were trying to adopt because they couldn't have their own children and they got pregnant while they were trying to adopt and then end up adopting anyway but the point is one thing that I really learned and is really made me sad was that I mean and that I think there was a reason I did that it really gave me a compassion for children especially children with disabilities people that want to adopt a child they want to adopt a baby and they want to adopt a healthy baby and I remember we were in Texas at the time and there was this it was called the tear website man I go through this website I don't even know I looked at this website but I go through this website it was just all these kids that were just waiting to be adopted and it was kids like you know it was just all these kids with just these terrible disabilities and they're just they're probably not going to be adopted and they were 10 years old 11 years old 12 years old you know everybody wants that healthy baby but this site was filled with five six seven eight nine year old kids without parents and those weren't the kids and then you see somebody that comes along and adopts one of those kids you're just like thank God for people like that thank God that he put people like that on planet earth to fill this gap that needs to be filled because look all children need care all children deserve to have two parents that will love them all all children deserve that and it it was it is something I mean some people dedicate their lives to caring for children like that and I mean God bless those people you know I mean I pray that just God just blesses those people turn to Psalm chapter for 145 so I mean the lesson tonight is to just be thankful for your families you know be thankful for your children and be merciful to others that may not be as fortunate as you Psalm chapter 145 really encompasses the heart that we should have two children like this and look at verse number eight this is such a great verse here the Bible says the Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy and look I mean I think about those parents like was such great sacrifice and amount of work to care for those children because look those children those children many of those children with well those lifelong disabilities those are going to be just like this man in John chapter nine they're going to be adults with those lifelong disabilities so especially parents that have had a child like that born and we know several of these parents as well they that is a lifelong commitment and look they're not complaining about it they love their child just like we all love every single one of our children and here's another thing here's another thing we assume that that people with disabilities are miserable you know we assume that because we look at that and we're like oh man I that would be terrible to have that not be able to walk or to be in a wheelchair when you're when you're two or three years old and you know it really it may I mean I told you when I looked at that website it made me sad right but you know what we ever met a child with Down syndrome like I've met several children with Down syndrome in my life and they're always happy children but they're just like any other children they're happy you know what they're happy to see you and and seeing them makes you happy and that kind of brings me back to Jesus's answer here just like this man one thing that we need to realize with yes creation is cursed creation is corrupt these things happen people get sick people get diseases people some people die when they're 20 some people die when they're 90 some people die when they're eight but the thing that we need to realize is that God can greatly use a disabled child just like he used this disabled man who guess what used to be a disabled child God is saying about this man he this man was blind his whole life so God could simply show the power of his work through the example of this man so what this is a time when you see a child that is disabled when you see parents that have a disabled child when you maybe even see a child that doesn't even have parents this is something that we need to know that that God can God wants to use even that child because imagine if God can use you who is strong by most measures of any measurement how much greater would his power be to be shown through a disabled child or a disabled person and that's exactly what he did in this case they said no one's ever seen this but since the beginning of time when he healed this man every single day that that man walked around with a disability was a testimony to the power of God that Jesus showed when he showed up to heal this man and look when we see these situations you don't know what that's like you've never walked in those shoes it is not any kind of time for judgment it is a time for compassion for mercy and for grace that's it and God will use those situations why to show to manifest his power to show his works what's bar heads and have a word


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Now, Reverend Steele Gavnoye Sambuike has called on President Mohamed Bohari to redouble efforts in fulfilling his cardinal electoral promise of securing the country, who was speaking during the 2022 Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony in Port Harcotte. Gavnoye said Nigeria is at the crossroads and everyone is wary about the prolonged Boko Harman insurgency in part of the country. We acknowledge that some progress has been made in the fight against insurgents. However, the generality of Nigerian belief that the progress made can be good enough in so far Boko Harman, East Affiliates, and the Pandits are still active in the Northeast, Northwest, and some other parts of the country. Killing many, kidnapping helpless people, including school children, and destroying and expressing helpless communities. We therefore call on Mr. President to redouble his efforts and fulfill his cardinal electoral promise to secure the country and ensure that Nigerians feel safe and safe and secure wherever they are in their own country. Governor Wickey donated 50 million Naira, a support fund to help leaders of foreign hearings. The National Seeings of National Unity were all part of our armed forces, not only for our principle loyalty to the nation, but also for our capacity and commitment to defend our territorial integrity, democracy, and constitutional freedoms, who also count on our armed forces to keep the end, be ready in insurgency, and restore peace and hope to all our distressed people and communities who bear the physical, emotional, and psychological scares of war and destruction. Our troops are equal to accomplishing these normal tasks if we're equipped and appropriately motivated by the federal government. It is also significant to help us share that for several families according to the nation and communities, today's membrane ceremony is a very painful reminder of the law of the ones that they lost years, months, and even barely weeks ago.


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in a moment of centering silence so we can all come together and be here with one another. And now please remain seated as we sing our in-gathering hymn which is number 118 and the verses we will sing are in your order of service. Good morning and welcome to the first Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Karen Rose Gredler and on behalf of the entire congregation I want to extend a special welcome to any visitors who are with us.  New comers and anyone else who wants to are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service and if you like to visit the library which is directly across from the center doors of this auditorium bring your beverages and your questions. Members of our staff and lay ministry will be on hand to welcome you. You may also look for persons holding teal colored stoneware coffee mugs these are FUS members knowledgeable about our faith community who would be happy to visit with you. Experienced guides are generally available to give a building tour after each service I understand we have one after this service so if excuse me if you are interested in learning more about this sustainably designed addition or our national landmark meeting house across the parking lot please meet near the large glass windows on what is your left side of the auditorium right after the service. We welcome children to stay for the duration of the service however because it is difficult for some in attendance to hear in this lively acoustical environment our child haven back in that corner and our commons along the back of the auditorium are also excellent places to go you can still see and hear the service in those areas and if your child needs to talk or move around or jump up and down those are good places to be. I now oh I'm sorry this would also be a very good time to turn off all devices that might cause a disturbance during the hour especially cell phone ringers please because we love to hear those cute little sounds but not in the middle of some serious moment you know in the service. I'd now like to acknowledge those individuals who do help our services run smoothly. We have Mark Schultz, hi Mark, doing the sound control for us and Smiley is our lay minister. Carol Angel was the greeter whom you met on your way in. Our ushers are Gail Bliss and Karen Jagger and making coffee and all back in the hospitality area are Jeannie Hills and Rick DeVita who has a thing for being called by special names and today he would like to be Buckaroo Bonsai. Thank you Rick. I love that film myself. Oh dear okay please note the announcements in the red floors insert to your order of service which describes upcoming events at the society and provides more information about today and upcoming events. Again welcome. We hope today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your heart and stir your spirit. Thank you. Now grab some Greek one another, spirit from the neighborhood, yes. And who'd like to come up for the story. Any children at heart who want to join me here and you wouldn't have to sit on the floor. Oh good we have actual participating children. Yay. Hello. Now there's some enthusiasm. Oh do you have a boo boo? I'm very sorry to hear that but your band aid's pretty. Hello sweetheart. Well that's a good thing to do isn't it?  Since Mr. O'Brien is talking today later after you guys go to summer fun about our expectations of satisfaction of all kinds of desires in the world. I thought we could talk about what we do have and how thankful we are for it. Things that we really really enjoy. And the people in this book are really cute little fuzzy people. Here they are. I say thank you. Aren't they cute? They're fuzzy people. That's all I know. They look fuzzy and they're supposedly sort of like people. I say thank you to the sun above. Thank you for my friends I love. Thank you for the earth and the air. Thank you for the food to share. Say again. Oh these are animals. There's a something and a something in a bunny. Yeah this book is made by a very creative artist who sees us in ways we don't always see ourselves which is a good thing. And thanks for trees and thanks for trains and for the breeze and for the rain. See all those things in this picture? Yeah trains you like those right? Well they're lots of fun to play with. Here they are for all the big kids in the audience and look at these. What are these? Yeah that are generating power from the breeze. Yeah yeah right well they can't do that in this book because it's just a solid picture in time but in real life they'd be doing that. And thank you thank you ocean deep. Who do you see here? Yeah great big whale. Who's this guy? Yes. Wow all that in this picture I guess so. Yes under the sea treasure chest. Yes yes ma'am see it's right there. It's kind of hidden in the weeds. Yeah oh the jellyfish we missed that. Oh did you? I'm sorry sir. I didn't I apologize. And desert dry and mountain steep. See those? And pigs and cows and ducks and sheep and horses geese and hands. What's strange about all these animals? Yeah they're all wearing sunglasses which is very important to protect our eyes but usually you don't see them on cows and pigs and horses right? And we thank you and thanks for balls to kick and kites to fly and places to go when we need to cry. Do you have a special place you go? This little fuzzy is in his bedroom it appears. That's a good idea yes well hopefully we don't have to cry too often but you know when we do it's okay right? Sometimes you just gotta cry. Thank you thank you thank you there are a lot of fuzzy people to moms and dads and sisters and brothers teachers and doctors and artists and others. Do you see all those people there? I'm gonna pull it around there see right and look some of them are doctors some of them have on aprons yep yeah green and red and pink kind of like the real world where there are people of all colors. See a stethoscope yeah a big red fuzzy doctor yeah yeah do you think this is the artist with the apron with all the colors on it? Yes there's a basketball player okay this is the most impressive page of all in the book because it has funny guys of all colors with other identifying look this must be a business person with a tie on probably a guy this looks like a ninja turtle doesn't it look at that oh okay okay thanks for all these people who make our lives so much better for a living thanks to music and dancing and singing and giving look at this funny purple guy he's like a one man band or a one person band yeah yeah yeah oh this is a good page thanks for patience and hopes and rewards and revisions and wizards and lizards and delightful decisions look at them lizards and wizards playing a game of basketball is that cool or what and it appears that the lizards are green and the wizards are all dressed in purple with gold stars you like this one this is my favorite page yeah that's a good one too thanks for taking time thanks for going fast thanks for jumping high and thanks for finishing last because first isn't always the best place to be and there's a tortoise and a hare like in the old fable and it really doesn't matter which one one if they had fun and thanks for second place and fifth on through 453 look at these people there were 453 people in that race or fuzzies in that race and they all had fun and we thank all of them this is a cute one too even bad things now see these look like sea monsters don't they sticking their little heads up out of the ocean yeah that's true here's a better picture of them even those bad things can turn out to be good look at that look at those sweet monsters one's giving the other one flowers and a heart that's right so maybe they aren't so bad maybe they like each other and they're friendly just like people even though initially they look like monsters i like that page too those bumps and those bruises that turn couldn'ts to coulds now i don't recommend doing this of course but this little person fuzzy person is trying to ride his skateboard along a stairs and Kerplunk he lands on the ground see but then on the next page it shows thank you for those those problems for they make us all stronger they make us all smarter they make us last longer and look there he is successfully doing what i don't recommend which is going down the stair banister on his skateboard look at that and he's done it successfully this also applies to schoolwork and friendships and lots of other things that aren't as dangerous thank you to all that has ever existed and everything else i could never have listed what's this over here well it looks a little like a tornado but i what yes the solar system thank you which is as far as we can see most of our everything although we know there's some more stuff out there but we can't see it very well oh thank you with kisses and thank you with hugs from a part of my heart that is so full of love look at all those hearts aren't they cool yeah all colors just like the fuzzies yeah they're a zillion i don't even know if we could count them all i know hundreds million well there could be hopefully they're 100 million people with love out there would say that again well let's not think of it as a mess let's think of it as an expression of thousands of loving thoughts how about that million zillion here's the last part i say thank you to you just for being yourself yourself as important as anything else and here's a beautiful butterfly yeah you like that story thank you very much what yeah that's the end this is a nice book i had to read only portions of it because it's very very big and thick so if you want to read it at home sometime it's called an awesome book of thanks okay and now we are going to sing no we're not wait what happens next jim you can go off to summer fun everybody who wants to can go to summer fun and the rest of us will rise as we are able by sweetheart and sing we'll build a land which is number 121 which has given us this America has provided a landscape and has given us the resources and the opportunity for the speed of national self but each of us individually provides the market and the demand for the illusions which flood our experience we want and we believe these illusions because we suffer from extravagant expectations we expect too much of the world our expectations are extravagant in the precise dictionary sense of the word going beyond the limits of reason or moderation they are excessive when we pick up our newspaper at breakfast we expect we even demand that it bring us momentous events since the night before we turn on the car radios we drive to work and expect news to have occurred since the morning newspaper went to press returning in the evening we expect our house not only to shelter us keep us warm in winter and cool in summer but to relax us to dignify us to encompass us with soft music and interesting hobbies to be a playground a theater and a bar we expect our two week vacation to be romantic exotic cheap and effortless we expect a faraway atmosphere if we go to a nearby place and we expect everything to be relaxing sanitary and americanized if we go to a faraway place we expect new heroes every season a literary masterpiece every month a dramatic spectacular every week a rare sensation every night we expect everyone to feel free to disagree yet we expect everyone to be loyal not to rock the motor take the fifth amendment we expect everybody to believe deeply in his religion yet not to think less of others for not believing we expect our nation to be strong and great and vast and varied and prepared for every challenge yet we expect our national purpose to be clear and simple something that gives direction to the lives of over 300 million people and yet can be bought in a paperback at the corner drugstore we expect anything and everything we expect the contradictory and the impossible we expect compact cars which are spacious luxurious cars which are economical we expect to be rich and charitable powerful and merciful active and reflective kind and competitive we expect to be inspired by mediocre appeals for excellence to be made literate by illiterate appeals for literacy we expect to eat and stay thin to be constantly on the move and yet evermore neighborly to go to a church of our choice and yet feel its guiding power over us to revere God and to be God never have a people been more the masters of their environment it never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed for never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer we are ruled by extravagant expectations of what the world holds and of our power to shape the world I note that expectations are more than they carry a sense of entitlement the way things should be they come first from our parents or parent figures we know about the extreme example what parents can have for their kids prom queen sports star we also know the normal expectations popular smart good-looking respectful to us competitive successful follow in our footsteps what if that's not their plan or their body's plan did they then become a disappointment and what's it like to carry that sense of fear teachers certainly have expectations pay attention be interested learn at least don't show you're not doing these things what if you're not interested you can't pay attention you can't or won't learn you're going to be hassled you're going to fall behind maybe fail you're going to carry that sense of failure and your classmates have expectations I can really speak only to the guys here the expectations are clear and forceful if you're big you should be out for football if you're tall you should be a basketball player if neither at least not a sec or a tattle tail and you should take signs and be loyal to your side even if you might get beat on by the other side and you should never cry they get the pattern bursin is more interested in the expectations generated by the mass mediums newspapers radio television movies these mediums expect attention even clamor for it but just enough attention so that it doesn't become critical attention and they know we want instant gratification and so they constantly tease us with the next thing right after these messages what are the consequences of this pandering to our expectation of instant gratification let's check in with our assigned authority Daniel borscht the making of the illusions which flood our experience has become the business of america some of its most honest and most necessary and most respectable business i'm thinking borscht says not only of advertising public relations and political rhetoric but of all the activities which purport to inform and comfort and improve and educate and elevate us the work of our best journalists our most enterprising book publishers our most energetic manufacturers and merchandisers our most successful entertainers our best guides to world travel our most influential leaders in foreign relations our every effort to exceed and satisfy extravagant expectations borscht continues simply makes them more extravagant and makes our illusions more attractive the story of the making of our illusions the news behind the news has become the most appealing news of the world oh by the way borscht published these thoughts in 1962 over 60 years ago do they still sound familiar these observations from a man who despite his vast learning knew nothing of the internet the smart phone facebook twitter trending and unprinting what about the expectations they create we're talking here suddenly about the social media i'm guessing it started with email exploded with facebook became worldwide with twitter became quicker and more evanescent with snapchat and it's fractionating with multiple e-services far beyond my knowledge um for example i don't know if pokemon go is the social medium or not i'm afraid to know i must admit that i'm not the best source of information here i do have a smart phone but it's a lot smarter than i am or care to be i have a facebook account that tells me i have 294 friends but i have no idea who most of them are or how they got to be my friends i suppose i could go through the list and unfriend them but that seems harsh and besides they might buy my book why are these social media so attractive they are personal and instant they give the illusion of connection and the illusion of control of safety we hear frequent stories of the emptiness of that illusion not merely of pathological behaviors like the slender man standing but the repeated reports of internet bullying among adolescents leading to breakdown social withdrawal and a sharp increase in suicides and only adolescents what about workplace bullying bullying of people perceived as different or whatever reason way beyond adolescents you don't grow out of bullying if it keeps working for you how strong an attraction to these social media yet well you can imagine the powerful appeal of the martyrdom you ever wondered to yourself how can these young radicals go out and strap arms to themselves and die to kill other people would you die for a cell phone message would you kill for it people do every day the answer the phone while driving they make that urgent call while driving they text while driving they crash and sometimes die and sometimes kill i'm not trying to take some righteous stance here i must point out i've done a lot of distracting just distracted driving myself without the benefit of a cell phone i'm only trying to show how intense is he urged to be connected in the instant and the occasional but growing cost of that intensity this is the time for a person of my age to go up in a rant about the pace of modern life such rants go back a long way in western civilization at least to the ancient greek philosophers but i have news for them and myself and all of us the pace of modern life is not going away and it's not going to slow down unless come up that great catastrophe the apocalypse you may recall michael's recent reflections in that area as my old compatriot marcia mcluwe used to say the medium is the message the social media are here they are multiplying and there is no going back from the new media inevitably change society how will they change this political blogger and their settlement sites play to this republic to the effect that democracies as they become more democratic become more more vulnerable to the appeal of a shameless demagogue fill in any name well the republic was written some 2,500 years ago but our founding fathers were well aware of plaguer's warnings when they crafted the elaborate system of checks and balances which we call american government they feared such a tyranny and they guarded against it consequently the government works slowly laboriously often taking one step forward and two steps back to the frustration of many and the satisfaction of others as churchal observed democracy is the worst of governing systems except for all the others someone points out what the 21st century added to this tendency toward tyranny and democratic political systems was media democracy in a truly revolutionary form if late stage political democracy has taken two centuries to mature in america the social media equivalent took around two decades swiftly erasing almost any elite moderation and control of our democratic discourse some of them suggest that the process has its origins in the partisan talk radio the end of the past century the rise of the internet an event so swift and pervasive in its political effect is only now beginning to be understood further democratizing every source of information dramatically expanding each cult lets readership and giving anyone and everyone a platform for example Sullivan notes political organizing calling a meeting fomenting a rally to advance the cause used to be very difficult now you could take you could bring together a virtual mass movement with a single web page would take you a few seconds to set up the distinction between politics and entertainment is becoming more and more fuzzy election coverage becomes even more model on sports casting political speeches are crafting to produce a 10 second sound white for the evening news what this fuel the Sullivan thinks is what the founding fathers feared about democratic culture the valorizing of feeling emotion and narcissism rather than reason empiricism and public spirits i'm earnestly attempting not to get into the political campaign here but the most obvious evidence available suggests there's widespread anger disillusionment frustration hopelessness even despair in american culture and it has certainly reached a boiling point in the contemporary election political liberals trace this back around Reagan's famous slogan government is not the solution to our problem government is a problem Reagan only said that because a lot of people already believed it so the elected Ronald Reagan who for some reason did not dismantle the government since he was the head of it the co-mortem which did embrace this model the tea party represented only a small fairly coherent slice of the political spectrum but the political pulsars have been fighting any of the people animated today by the political campaign had been largely indifferent to party affiliations and reach across a wide range of political attitudes of course older political liberals who shall remain nameless trace this back to the disillusionment with the vietnam conflict and the watergate scandal or perhaps even to the collapse in the early 70s of the social revolutions of the 60s but who remembers that certainly not me it is the responsibility function and fate of the government in power to be blamed the contemporary situation whatever its political strike and the blame gaze is always momentarily satisfying completely ineffective and ultimately frustrating we're told that we're a democracy that the people have power but then we don't see the change that we extravagantly expect and we're frustrated again and we want to express it the social media have given anyone a voice president obama loved his twitter account the pope has a twitter account and he uses it fiance well i won't go through the full list so it's a good thing it sounds like a good thing a democratic thing don't we all have a right to our opinion don't we all have a right to express it isn't believing the democratic process one of our uu principles do the flood of social media statements emerge from a thoughtful insightful consideration of the issue at hand or are they reactive knee jerk gut driven brain frailings not to characterize them in any way borsam would say that we have extravagant expectations for quick results from a system designed to work slowly and cautiously we hear candidates say on day one of my administration but that's just not the way it works for any new president well what can we do we start with what spiritual guides call discernment the power to distinguish discern the judge or praise a person or situation for example what do we expect of ourselves of our spouses our children our schools our church our nation our our expectations reasonable are they based on righteousness or cynicism do they produce euphoria or bitterness do they lead us to action or discourage us from action worst in things that what we need is to disillusion ourselves what ails us most it's not what we have done with america what we have substituted for america we suffer primarily not from our vices or from our weaknesses but from our illusions we are haunted not by reality but by the images we have put in place of reality to discern our illusions will not solve the problems of our world but if we do not discern them we will never discover our real problems to dispel the ghosts which populate the world of our making will not give us power to conquer the real enemies of the real world or remake the real world but it may help us to discover that we cannot make the world over in our image discernment will liberate us and sharpen our vision we hope it will clear away the fog so we can face the world we share with all mankind let's get started on that break no it's time for our offering to this time and place we bring our whole hear joys and sorrows find a place where they can be received celebrated and we pause to acknowledge previous concern and now joy i assume uh from Anne Smiley this morning's lay minister regarding her son will who has been doing archival research in Istanbul for the past month his flight home is wednesday and i assume she is very very happy he's coming home and can't wait to give him a big hug so we're all with you Anne may we silently in the spirit of empathy and hope hold in our hearts and hands the unspoken joys and sorrows of this community as well as those of the mourning french people and the shaken and bereaved people of turkey as well as our entire wounded world because of this time shared may our burdens be enlightened and our joys be expanded may we have a moment of silence i don't know about you but i always find it reassuring to hear the voices of children in the background when we are thinking of things that are sad they are the future and they're busy out there now i would ask you to stand as you are able for our closing hymn number 151


Hi there I'm Tech and this is my channel Bootlossophy. Today I'm going to be unboxing the Parkhurst Brands Allen Boot in Dark Roast Dublin. So this morning this box from UPS arrived. Total impulse buy from Parkhurst. I can't remember why I got onto the seconds page. I think someone in the group suggested that something might be on. Didn't think I'd want this but then I saw it. The Allen in Dark Roast Dublin with a 602 last, factory second. Parkhurst factory seconds are usually not defects but they're returns or they might have been used for modeling shots. Thank you for your appreciated continued support. Best Andrew and as usual they come in their boot bag. Oh and that's a beautiful leather. I have a lot of brown boots and for some reason I gravitate towards them rather than black for whatever reason. To be honest on a reasonably brief glance I can't really see any significant defects. It's Dublin leather so you're going to see a lot of grain and rolls and creases anyway and yes I think there is a bit of a too much crease here but you know what as soon as I wear them on and break them in they're going to look like that anyway I think. There are no significant defects where I'd say gosh that's a brand new boot it shouldn't look like that. These sorts of defects I can live with because I think I'm going to wear them in. There are no tears in the leather. Just a closer look at the vamp. Yeah look there's a little bit of creasing there but that's where my toes will crease. The shaft looks pretty good. Day night sole. Well I'm really pleased with this impulse buy. Saved I think nearly a hundred dollars. Nothing wrong with that really. They come with the round cotton laces and I'm looking forward to trying them on. So here are my Allens in dark rose Dublin on foot. They're very comfortable out of the box. The leather insoles and mid-soles I think take care of that. The leather is actually a lot firmer than my other Parkhurst boots being the Spruce Kudu the Natural CXL and the raised reverse Mohawk. Those are very supple leathers. This is a veg tan leather from Horwind the Dublin which I understand veg tanning does make quite a tough leather. Not uncomfortable. 602 last grips my heel and the side of my foot but gives me plenty of room in the toe. Next to my boots that I was wearing before these were delivered the Thomas George collection from Australia. Yep I think these were wearing quite nicely. There you go I hope you enjoyed that and if you did please click on the like button below because that's going to help the algorithm get this out to many more people who might like to watch it and if you liked it I'd ask you to subscribe to this channel as well because what I do is once I've worn it for a few months I'm going to do a longer term review of this boot so you can see whether it's something that you'd like. So click on the subscribe button and I'll see you soon.


It isn't uncommon to find animal bones in the woods. One might go out and find shed deer antlers or the skull of a small animal such as a squirrel or raccoon. But one Putnam County, West Virginia man made the discovery of a lifetime when, out on a hunting trip, he found the skull of a prehistoric creature. Sunday morning rolled around and we got ready, went out that morning before daylight. We started down the main hollow of that area. And as we're walking down through there, that's when we really started to notice all of the debris that was scattered from the flash flooding. I noticed what I thought was a root ball that had been washed out with the flooding. I could see it from about 40 yards away. Didn't really think much of it, but it definitely had my attention because it was right in the walking path that was laying with the jaw facing up. And I was able to notice the teeth that were in it and it caught my attention. After wheeling out any possibility of the skull being a horse, cow, pig, or deer, Atkins looked to the West Virginia State Geological Survey for answers as to the identity of the skull. Who can we get ahold of to actually confirm this for us? And because I felt like we sounded crazy. And I mean, I've got a center holding a sloth head from the Ice Age. There's just no way it's possible. I'm having coffee with my wife and she happened to look up the West Virginia Geological Survey and Morgan immediately give me the number. We are Pikeville Medical Center and we are an amazing place to work. Healthcare heroes of all types work here. All who deserve great rewards. So while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors, we are taking care of them with top tier benefits, higher pay rates, and great sign on bonuses. So join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today. Incredible opportunities await at pmcjobs.org. The skull was confirmed to be that of a giant ground sloth, megalonics Jeffersoni. This species is believed to have roamed North America anywhere from 11,000 to 5 million years ago. Atkins is still currently in possession of the skull, but many have made offers to take it off his hands. We've had museums reach out to us from several places here within the state of West Virginia to some more well-known museums such as Carnegie, but we do still have it in a safe location. So we're wanting to work with the researchers to try to get as much information as we can about this thing and have the opportunity to be a part of the process. As an experienced woodsman, Atkins says this is the biggest discovery he's ever made. There is a Facebook group dedicated to learning more about the skull and other prehistoric species that may have lived in the area. For more information, you can visit prehistoric giant ground sloth skull West Virginia find on Facebook. For mountaintop news, I'm Kelsey Dean.


All right, so You guys remember I was talking about Last time I did one of these vlogs. I was talking about going to sword and To hang out with my friend Zack because he's about to move. This is my friend Zack. He is moving incredibly soon and Because of that my friend Noah and some of the rest of us have decided to throw him a surprise going away party and I am going to do that because it is at 1. It is now 12 o'clock. I said I would be there about 12 30 so Going to do that. I'm going to take you guys along Just document it because I can Got my extra batteries My extra batteries for this camera might my video cards and We are going to go I will pick up with you guys when I get there See I'm not recording anything. What are you talking about? Anything I can do to help Was that a parabolic microphone, yeah, it's Mike.  What do you tell him like? Oh, I just I just said I need your help with something on Sunday It's not unusual for us to be in here on Sunday training. That is true It is so we used to be here every Sunday either D&D No, yeah, we me and mr. K would come in do some extra sparring.  He's just like, yeah, yeah What oh Okay, if it's like or if I like forget it somewhere, you know Now I can't feel good about stealing your camera Yeah, I'm filming to do like a vlog style video I will be here Wednesday for the sort we have a white FMA t-shirt and we're all gonna be signing it I plan on actually bringing both of my cameras Well, I only have to be a sword tournament a knife tournament and I think I'm not sure I'm gonna do the Mix weapons cuz sword at least the sword Good oh you can actually fight now. Oh, yep. I by Wednesday. I'll be fire helmet and stuff I should be able to get back to Sparring and actual training and stuff tomorrow. This one split his head open. Yeah Oh This is how he says touch I'm not Hope me in the eye. This is how he's gonna win the term. He's fine. Everyone. That's competing. He's like, hey I need you there to film it so that we can make it look like other people's You know like he leaned in to read the paper of my fingers just happened That's the whole point obviously why else do people on camera? Hey, what's this paper state? Oh, it says something because I like to say I could read this Because I like to Filmmaking and stuff so there's a lot of people I can just like do see to it walking around and doing this like it I know I know a couple videographers over at the MMA Institute I thought you're gonna make a pun about your own name like I know a guy No, no, no, no, okay, dude. He's not Zach. He won't make a pun about his own name. Oh, at least not I have at least No, very willingly. It's happened many times failure. Why failure people that are wearing glasses for me No, why not? Have you ever tried making a pun about my name out your name's not No, okay fine fair enough. It is glass. But how do you make up?  We're arming ourselves Greatest plan I'm gonna shoot I'm recording a vlog I'm gonna edit this into an episode like a legit video Oh I'm about to record nerf battle Let's go That's basically for the vlog this part of the video is It's a thank you letter to Zach. He's Been a massive part of Everyone at that school's lives everyone that was there and at least one person that wasn't at this Studio when we had this party um, I Got them to send me video or I took video and got the other guy to send me video of just saying thank you and That's what the rest of this is so if you don't care That's fine You can click off now, but uh, is that Hope you watch the rest of this mr. K when I was 13 I wasn't in public school yet both of my two friends were going to private school together and I didn't really have anyone I spent most of my time just in my basement watching Naruto So my parents decided that I needed to go and do something to have friends and I chose martial arts You've given me a place to belong you've given me friends and led me into the best things in in my life You're the reason that I teach gymnastics the reason I Love being around children so much. You've been a fantastic role model to me And I am certain that I wouldn't be the man that I am today or that I'm going to become without you so Thank you for being the leader in my life and it's me Tori I Really enjoyed your classes and I took them for like two years and especially sword it was my favorite and It like I Really looked forward to them at the end of the day after school and But I decided to stop so I could focus on school and work And but I always like loved Coming here and hearing the Synchronization of people going hi, Tori And this is just always such a heartwarming place and I Really, I will miss it and I hope you have a fun time What a joy about Friday is going to nerf him because it may be extremely painful But it's fun and mr. K. I'm really gonna miss you Um Hi, mr. K. Um, thanks for teaching me all this karate stuff and thanks for the good times really It's hard to see us all go away But it's hard to see Everything since I was about four with working with you or not necessarily working But again, thanks for teaching me everything and thanks for the good times. Thanks for helping me with the fails and successes Hi, mr. K. Um Have a safe trip to Montana, and I hope that and thank you for teaching me karate and Getting me where I am right now and Thank you for everything All right, I wanted to record a thank you video all of us from adult sword to our buddy Zach and Yeah, for me adult sword is actually one of the things that I Looked forward to every Wednesday and Thursday. There's a lot of fun a great group of people and it just I very much enjoyed it And it gave me something to look forward to a place to hang out with friends and to work out without feeling bad about myself But yeah, I'm gonna hand it off to the other guys I've been doing the sword and all the cry stuff It's been something I've always enjoyed Definitely helps, you know, just Yeah I haven't been an adult sword for quite a while I knew one thing I could count on was I would always get injured when I did it All right, well, I Have been a sore wall either like he said Especially cuz the injury but I have fun doing sort of all the time especially with all the guys It was always awesome being people with swords. Just like Jacob said it was just fun time Swords pretty much the only Yeah, no not untrue at all my knee when I was doing karate and I was like, nope, I'm good So I go to sword class, but it is the only exercise that I actually From all of us to Zach I wanted to say thank you so much for the amazing times that we've had over the last two years Thank you. Thank you. Have a great time Montana dude. Peace out man