eagles they live above the ground unlike chickens they live in the barn unlike those little birds that can either speak gospel verses or curse words in your house they get trained parrots eagles they live and they have their residence very high in the sky where most of the predators cannot arrive and cannot climb to where your physical body lives is your address that's where your physical body lives but your mind lives in the other address your attitude is the address of your mind your attitude is the address of your mind you can physically live in the richest neighborhood in tri cities and mentally live in the ghetto you can physically live in 99301 physically but mentally be homeless because the thoughts that constantly come out of you are shame guilt depression discouragement anxiety you're working at the procedure's job except anxiety comes in mentally the attitude you have those moments where you kind of fly and you have those good days somebody gives you a free coffee somebody gives you a little promotion gives you a nice words you know your spouse or your children or your parents give you a little moment of attention and you go out and you fly so good but then when the day is over you go back to your home your attitude place and as a home for the body is your address the home for the mind is your attitude your attitude and many times for us what happens is that we go through things in life and we become hurt we go through things in life and we become devastated inside or we pick up certain demons we become certain depression certain anxiety and it becomes our home we come to church we feel good for two hours and we go back home to an attitude of defeat attitude of rebellion attitude of discouragement attitude of depression attitude of I am not good my life has no point everybody's advancing nobody loves me nobody pays attention to me and it's your nest it's called a barn life you can't be an eagle and live in a barn my mission today is to burn your barn burn the barn mental address has to be burned if it's not high I can't fly high if I live low I can't reach high if at my low points I always come back to a low place in a barn I must as a person and you have to be the first place you must change is not the zip code for your house it's the zip code for your mind it's your attitude your attitude has to be a winning attitude that's why word attitude and altitude sound the same and they're actually about the same in your spiritual life the altitude in life is actually your attitude in life you can have a positive attitude and live a negative life for very long but you also cannot have a positive life and have a negative attitude for very long God wants to change your address today last year right at this moment two more hours a little bit before I moved from Richland to Pasco it took a while to move it with transition I had to change my address and the mail still goes to Richland sometimes there was a transition that I had to take I live so much closer to church now I can walk to church and I love living in Pasco not for the Pasco sake but because it's closer to church it's closer to my wife's work when I went to my brother's house for lunch few Sundays ago I felt like I went to Seattle I drove to Richland I was like when am I gonna get to that Richland it's 15 minutes and I told him I'm not coming again this is too hard too long because I'm used to 25 seconds to 30 seconds distance because I live closer as I was meditating on that before the service I saw the picture of how you can live close mentally to God what mentally you make an address for your attitude I am a victor not a victim you're closer to God when you make a decision I am not a sick person try to get healthy I'm a healthy person fighting sickness you get 20 seconds between you and God compared to three hours compared to 15 minutes when you make a decision I am not broke poor always struggling but I am a blessed person because I have an El Shaddai I have a Jehovah Rafa I have a Jehovah Ra I have a God who provides for me not my boss he is the resource my God is the source but I'm currently struggling but my God will meet all of my needs according to my riches in your glory that is your mental address with that mental address you're closer to God God wants us to change not where we fly where we live when all the flying is done where do you rest when the service is done the hype is down the speaker is no longer with the microphone pastor doesn't challenge music doesn't inspire you go back home on the pillow and you turn on your lamp and you smell the carpet and everything you come into your house you pick up the bills where does your mind find its rest is it in the barn or on the rocks because you're an eagle you're not a chicken you're not a you're not a chicken you may say my friends are depressed well you're not your friends the creator of universities your dad your nature and majestic a powerful fearless majestic nature lives inside of you you say you don't know my mama while I'm telling you about your daddy you say well you don't know what I grew up in while I'm telling you where you should be living in now don't live in a rich neighborhood but your mind being in a ghetto graduate move your mind pack your bags burn the barn and come to a place we're seeing no one I may be broke in my pocket but I'm not broke in my mind I may be sick in my body but I'm not sick in my heart I may feel discouraged in my emotions but listen I am not discouraged in my mind I am seated in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus I will think on high things where Jesus dwells and Jesus is not in the valley valley is what I go through it's not what I camp and that is about you and that is about me can somebody say man


What's up guys welcome to today's video today We're gonna be working through how to cut a round pixie haircut. I'm very excited to bring you guys this full technique So to start off the sectioning I take a parting straight down the center I go all the way down center back to the nape and then I create two curved line Sections right on the top following that parietal ridge really following the round of the head And I clip those two sections forward Separately and we're gonna cut into those later now the next section comes off a pivot point right in that back crown area Down to behind the ear. That's another curved line I clip that section away do the same thing on the right side and clip that one away as well And that's the basic sectioning of this entire cut So just making sure I keep everything nice and clean and organized and we're gonna work our way through each of those sections As we go All right, so now we're gonna start straight down center back draw a vertical line Separate those two into two different halves, and then I'm gonna start working Diagonal forward and just keep working with the head shape So you'll see nice small sections make sure you keep those sections small because the larger the section The more you'll tend to get lost in the more over direction you create within the cut So small sections straight out from the head then I take another slight diagonal forward parting That's also gonna come straight out from the head. This is going to be a traveling guide We're cutting around shape. So my fingers must travel with the head shape as I go That's what creates those round lines in a horizontal plane. So just working through Now also look at my finger angle. It's basically straight out from the head We're not building up a ton of weight in the back I want it to be a nice seamless feel. So we're coming about 90 degrees straight out from the head as we work that 90 degrees will turn into a lower Elevation as we work up the head shape. So we'll start to build a weight line You can see kind of that tip of my fingers there where my My finger is further away from the head. So we're creating extra length towards the top But then still keeping it that 90 degrees as we work our way down So now I'm going to continue working through this side all the way through this panel bringing everything out Straight out to me traveling guide working all the way through. Let's go All right, so now we're gonna move into panel number two One thing I want you guys to really focus on is how low the elevation is towards the tip of my finger Look at that elevation That hair is actually coming out of the high point of the head or the midpoint of the crown So it's much lower than the rest of the section So you can see that natural shape starting to build that natural weight line working through it I think this is one of the key things about this haircut. So bring everything out to your body Everything stays in a traveling guide. You just cut it all the way through to the temple area That's how we're gonna work. So we'll do that real quick and then we're gonna move to the opposite side All right So now as I work into the right-hand side Nothing's really gonna change as I cut through this the only difference is my fingers are now going to be pointing down The reason for that is it's a comfort thing for me consistency We're working with a diagonal forward parting So I want to make sure that my body position I can be in the most comfortable state as I cut that'll keep me consistent So for me comfort equals consistency. So as I work through the haircut, that's what I want to do So we're gonna work through this right side all the way through traveling guide same thing And then we'll start on the top All right, so now that we've finished up the right-hand side now I'm just gonna go through and cross-check.  Now we're gonna work into the top of the haircut So I comb everything forward Towards me and then I'm gonna give it a little saturation and then we're gonna start working the top I'm gonna take a center parting all the way through and then we're gonna be cutting a nice rounded 90-degree layer throughout the top with over direction straight back towards me So you'll see that so as I work through I take a vertical section On both sides comb that forward and then I start by bringing one side up connecting it to the previously cut section And I start to round off those layers bringing everything straight up towards me. This is going to be now a Stationary guide that I'm creating so I followed around to the head all the way Around to the opposite side connect it to what I cut previously there So now we've got a perfectly 90-degree layer all the way through That's our Stationary guide and I'm gonna bring everything back to that point all the way through the top of this cut What that's gonna do is push maximum weight to the front But give me a nice rounded layered effect Throughout the top and then we're gonna go in and we're actually gonna do some dry cutting to detail and take away That length that we pushed to the front in the end result. So pretty fun technique I hope you guys enjoy watching this part and then we'll get back to it as we get it dry All right guys, so check out all that length that we pushed forward But all the layers that you see on the top So that's what I really wanted to create now I'm gonna go through and do a slide cutting technique to take away the extra length that we pushed to the front to Also skinny up the edges so that when I go in and do my detailed line It's much easier to cut so you don't want to cut super thick hair and try to cut your blunt lines Soften those edges first So just slide cutting through half closing of the scissor Sliding it down working it through taking away that length just little by little and really etching in my total shape Look at those layers pop already. So now little point cutting lifting This is not what the end result will look like I'm just softening those edges first and then I'll show you guys how we do that and resolve All right guys. So what I'm doing now is I'm just going in that top section where we did that stationary guide I just want to soften it a little bit with some vertical point cutting So I lift the hair straight up go in with up with a point cutting technique Not to disturb the line But just to soften it and I do that all the way through the top and then when I get to the front fringe area I do the same thing that just softens out a little bit more so that when we move into this next part When we're cutting this blunt line like you see here It makes it easy because that that hair the density of the hair on the ends is nice and light So that is a benefit that comes from that slide cutting the point cutting all of the techniques that we did in that That's very very helpful in that situation. Now. We're gonna go through and create the hairline So the whole outer perimeter of this cut. This is an artistic Side of you guys that you can do whatever you want with this cut So for me, I wanted to create this round shape that kind of hugs the cheekbone a little bit goes down into that temple area And kind of showcases what the hairline really looks like I just think it's flattering for this round shape that we've created Now we'll do the same thing on the opposite side working through you can see nice hard line in the fringe But a nice textured cut can't wait to show you guys how this looks when we start adding some product in there Notice how I'm doing it little by little. I'm not going in trying to take out a ton of hair at once I'm not rushing this.  You don't want to push a lot of weight Just really take your time and enjoy this process little tease cutting you guys know if you've been following me for a long time You know, I love tease cutting half open half closed look it up search it on our channel You'll learn how to do it and then a little bit of a texture scissor sliding through To finish off our end result you can see pop of texture love it a nice crisp edge to the haircut You know this haircut might not be for everybody but for me. This is one of my favorite cuts I've probably done in a long time. So hope you guys enjoyed this cut if you're new to this channel Make sure you hit the subscribe button and like this video if you can let me know how you feel about it in the comments Below. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you on the next one By the way guys freesaloneducation.com is powered by my friends at Minerva Beauty If you're looking to upgrade your salon furniture or equipment, they're the best in the business They've been supporting freesalon education for a long time. So go give them some support Check out minervabeauty.com and at minerva beauty on instagram


What's going on guys? Eight weeks, eight weeks to go. That is the title of this video. And that's the truth. So eight sevens, 56, 56 days to go guys. First week of working with my nutrition and conditioning coach, Matthew St George is done. I didn't actually have any like check-ins with him or anything during the week because I felt fine. I knew what I had to do. I just had to stick to the plan. As far as macros go, I've counted everything. It's all in my fitness pal and I've also made up a spreadsheet on the computer so I can look down, select certain days, see the averages. It makes it awesome. I can make it into a graph if I want. So yeah, that's probably what I will do. Weight-wise, I've actually, I have stuck to the diet. He wanted me on 2500 calories with no cardio. What I've done is probably averaged maybe 28, 2800 with, I did three cardio sessions of about 500 calories each. So I think I've pretty much stuck to the plan. But I have actually, I've tightened up a bit but my weight hasn't gone down on the scale. So I really don't want to send him my updates really because the weight hasn't gone down. But I know myself, I know that I've done what I need to do in the last week and the results are there. I'm feeling fucking, I'm feeling good. I'm pretty much in the best shape of my life, just. So you can't go wrong with that. Now, what else am I going to say? I've just, oh man, I'm excited. In the back, I don't know if you heard me, I've, well on the video that I made buying my new house, I said that I can't spend my money like I want to, which is absolutely true because the big ticket purchase that I really wanted to get was a new Apple iMac, 27 inch with 5K display.  I've just heard that it's actually probably going to be another three months away until I get my house.  I've changed my credit card to a rewards one and I've gone and blown three grand on a computer.   I'm going to use heaps.   Not every scene's going to be in 4K, but like, because I'm not going to be able to shoot it with 60 frames per second.  So I think I need to lower the resolution to 2K or 1080p to be able to do 60 frames per second or even 120 frames per second, which is going to make it so you can slow it down four times the amount. So that's going to be really cool for like lifting videos and also, yeah, that's probably, probably all it's going to be cool for, but either way, I'm on a lunch break now, I'm going to go set up my computer, I bought a desk as well. So basically, I'm living in my flatmate's house for the months before I take over ownership of my house and I'm getting a bit antsy, I really want to get out, but I'm setting up an office there. So yeah, get everything set up like I would in my new house and get it all going and using it and stuff. The desk I bought is specific to me because I got an electric one. I don't know if any of you guys saw Matt Ogis, his Episode 1 of Dedicated, which is his new series that he's brought out on YouTube. He had an awesome idea and one that I've been thinking about for a while, but I didn't actually know that these existed was an electronic height adjustable desk because my back gives me a lot of trouble. I mean, I'm only 24 and I've already got back problems. My dad has pretty bad back problems.  I don't know if any of you guys suffer from back, lower back issues and stuff, but if I'm sitting down for more than an hour driving or on the computer or whatever, I have to start shifting around and my back starts getting sore. So this desk is obviously adjustable.  It feels really awesome. So you guys should try working at a computer about standing up. So yeah, I'm on my lunch break, just coming home to drop the computer off. About to pull in now. It's eight weeks out. I don't really, I mean, yeah, last week I did a full like day vlog. I actually had the day off last week, so that was cool, but not so lucky this today. So it's Saturday the 1st of August, eight weeks out. I won't tell you the show exactly yet because I'm actually not sure. Me and my coach are sort of talking about different shows. I've got a trip planned away to New Zealand on holiday for five weeks. Sorry, not for five weeks, in five weeks, for two weeks. So I'll be coming back to Australia one week out from the show. So yeah, these vlogs will be happening all the way along. I probably do like another travel one for my trips in New Zealand, which will be cool. Really looking forward to that because I'll have all of the awesome equipment to do it on and stuff like that. And I'll also be training in a few gyms in Christchurch and around New Zealand as well, a few different ones. So I'll take you there too. So yeah, exciting things to come, man. Thank you Heaps for your support. Subscribers hit 280 today, 280. If any of you have a YouTube channel yourself, you see in the channel analytics, it shows you per 28 days. So per month, what you've achieved on your channel and it refreshes itself every day, I'm pretty sure. So views per 28 days has slowly, slowly gone up. I think at the start of this month that was started last month, it was just under 10,000 views per month. And it's slowly crept up above 11,000. Subscribers has gone from about 21, 22 per month up to like 28, 29. So yeah, I'm averaging one subscriber a day. So that's pretty exciting. Yeah, that's about it. See ya. Train hard. Stick to your goals. We're all kicking goals, man. I'm kicking goals.  Some days I don't feel motivated. But man, what can I say? The goal, the end goal is what is, you know, you really just have to keep reminding yourself of that because I do forget about it.  You know, it is.  So yeah, can't wait to get there. So we're getting it.


Hello and welcome to the Monday market update with me, David Madden. Today's date is Monday of the 11th of June 2018 and the time has just gone, 11.10BT. Well, equity markets in Europe have certainly gotten off to a fairly decent start, even though we had a fairly unproductive G7 meeting in Quebec over the weekend. President Donald Trump stated that G7 members should have tariff-free trading with each other and with that he really means other members of the G7 should cut their tariffs on U.S. imports. The American president even threatened to actually stop trading with countries which have trade barriers for U.S. goods. That being said, traders have seemed to have shrugged this off. Traders are getting used to the way President Trump operates. He seems to kind of take a hard line with his political opponents with the means of actually getting a reaction or retaliation or a compromise out of his political opponents. So the time being, traders are overly concerned about the harsh words from the U.S. president. But the U.S. president is also introduced again today because there today he's going to meet with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. This meeting will be a milestone in relations between the two countries and also for the wider Far East in terms of geopolitics. So there are the major stories that have been going on over the past number of days. If you take a look now at the week ahead, the week ahead article can be found on a website under the news and analysis section that has run through some of the major events that are planned for the week ahead. So tomorrow and Tuesday we have first figures on Crest Nicholson, the British home building company. Tomorrow and Wednesday we have some important economic data out of the United Kingdom. We have wages, we have unemployment and CPI, particularly on the wages component. In recent months, the average earnings in the UK have been outpacing the inflation rate, which is obviously beneficial to the British consumer. And the more money the British consumer has in their pockets, the more likely to go out and actually spend it. So the cooling of inflation in recent months has been met with a pickup in earnings growth, which is obviously positive to see. On Wednesday we have the Federal Reserve meeting. The US central bank are widely expected to raise interest rates by 0.25%. But the press conference afterwards is going to be the main focus of the meeting. Is that expected? The traders are still very much divided. Are we going to see a rate hike as well in September and in December or just a rate hike in December? So the guidance that the US central bank gives is going to be of major importance on Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday evening. Thursday, European central bank meeting, nothing is expected in relation to policy change. But once again, the guidance is going to be key. Last week, Jens Weidmann, a policymaker at the ECB, said it was plausible that the European central bank could wind down their stimulus package, their bond buying scheme this year. So traders are going to be listening out for any clues to future policy of the ECB. And on Thursday, we have industrial production and retail sales figures from China. And also on Thursday here in the UK, we have a couple of court majestic wines have their full year figures out. So I'll take a look now. A couple of the major markets. I'll start off with a few of the indices and then go to a couple of commodities and then on to some major currency pairs. So just went for the chart to look now. So as you can see here, the FTSE 100 is still very much in the upward trend. It's a very bullish run from late March up until late May, a couple of months. It has since pulled back a small bit since then. But while we remain north of this price area here below in May at 75.91, the outlook for the FTSE 100 is going to remain bullish. We're not too far away from the old-time high, which was only created a few weeks ago. So should we continue to push it up from here? We could be looking heading towards 7,800 and then beyond that. The next big area to keep an eye on for will be 7,900. Should we see a break south of this low here, this level here in late May at 7,591? An exit area for potential support that could come into play is this area here, 7,482. And a move south of that could bring this red line here into play, the two of the moving average, which comes into play at 7,433. Take a look now what's going on over in Germany. The DAX is also in fairly good shape, not as positive shape as the FTSE 100. So as you can see here, it's had a decent one from late March to May. I like the FTSE 100, but once again, it took it back down. And once again, we seem to be stuck within about a 200-point range either side of this red line here, the two of the moving average. So the DAX here is broadly speaking, trading in around its two of the moving average, which comes into play in around 12,753. So if you continue to remain north of that, it's likely we could be looking at retesting 12,900 and then beyond that, we'll be looking at potential testing at the big psychological number of 13,000. I'll show you go beyond that. The May high of 13,200 will be the area to keep an eye out for. If you resize the break south of the trading moving average, keep an eye on 12,000 as an area for support. And if you resize the break below that, we could be looking at heading back down towards 12,400. Take a look now at what's going on with U.S. Second Markets to start off with the Dow Jones. U.S. Second Markets are in fairly decent shape. We're expecting the Dow Jones to open up a fresh multi-month high as the cash session gets underway. As you can see here, we're looking at levels not seen since early March on the Dow Jones. As the markets be pushing higher here in recent sessions, we can see that it's managed to hold above this blue line here, the 50 moving average and also this yellow line here, the 20 moving average and we're looking at opening up multi-month highs. We can see a steady increase in the positive momentum looking at the MACD indicator. So as the market is pushing higher, momentum is gaining ground. The momentum is with the buyer, so we can be more confident that this upward move is going to last. Next area to keep an eye out for at the upside will of course be the early March high of 25,507. And should we go beyond that, we could be looking at the high in mid-February at 25,821. Moves to the downside, may find support from this yellow line here, the 180 moving average, which comes into play at 24,784. And also this the blue line here, the 50 moving average, which comes to play at 24,555. Notice how in recent weeks both these two lines have acted both support and resistance in only a few weeks ago. And if the market does, if a moving average has provided support and or resistance recently, it makes it more likely to do again in the future. Take a look now of what's going on on the S&P 500. It's a fairly similar looking chart in that it's also tipped to once the cash session gets underway to be actually looking to be looking at a multi-month high, about a three-month high. So as we can see here on the S&P 500, similar situation, the high of the day session in the futures market is pointed to a high not seen since early March. The market is clearly coming up making a fairly decent upward trend. In recent weeks as the markets are moving higher, we can see a steady increase in positive momentum. So the momentum is with the buyer, so it's likely that this upward move can last. So the next year to keep an eye out for the upside will be the March high of 2800. So we've got beyond that, we could be looking towards 2825, this area here, which has a lot of consolidation. And we've got beyond that, we've been looking towards the January high and the old-time high of 2877. Moving to the downside, may find some support from this blue line here, the 50-day moving average, which comes to play at 2693. Once again, I'm just going to support and resistance in recent months. So it makes it all the more likely that it will do so again. Take a look at what's going on in the oil markets. First off, with the Brent crude oil. So the oil market has been essentially been in a solid upward trend for about 12 months now. We have seen a slight cooling in the price of oil in recent weeks. So the big picture view, the kind of more medium to longer term view, is likely that this upward trend is going to continue. It's been a strong upward trend, like I said, for 12 months. Class example of higher highs and higher lows. So if the wider trend does continue, we continue to push on higher from here. We could be looking at targeting 78, 79, 80, and then up towards 81. But what's slightly concerning is the fact that in the last couple of weeks, we have seen a bit of a pullback. And this pullback might just be a correction, but it could also be the beginning of the market edging lower because after hitting a 42 month high here in May, the market then moved down to trading a lower low, a lower high, and another lower low. So if we do, we would need to take out the 79 area, this candle here before we actually become more confident that the upward trend is going to continue because we already have a lower low, lower high, lower low. We could be looking at it lower again. And if you do head lower, we could be looking at finding support in around 7310 or perhaps $72 or maybe even down as low as 71. So just keep an eye out for that. If you take off this low here on the 5th of June, which comes into play in around 7360 or so in around there, we could be looking at heading lower in the near term. But like I said, the big picture in the last 12 months has been very much the upside. So it's likely that the wider positive trend will continue. It's a similar chart on WTI, although WTI has been a bit weaker in comparison to Brent Crude in recent weeks and the sell-off that we've seen recently has been a bit steep, has been a bit deeper in the terms of the move to the downside. So the big picture is it's very much in an upward trend for the last year. As you can see here, had a fairly sizable sell-off. It's gone below the 50 moving average, gone below the WTI moving average on a number of occasions. You see it be hovering in around this area here in around the WTI moving average, which comes into play at $65.38. If you can hold north of the recent lows at $64.18, it's likely that that market could look to actually push higher again and look at retesting $67 or if you go north of this blue line here, the 50 moving average at $67.86. We could be looking any back up towards $69.70 and so on and so forth. Move to the downside. If you take out this low here at $64.18, we could be looking any back down towards $63 or perhaps even the kind of the early April low of $61.78. Take a look now what's going on in the currency markets. Take a look at Eurodollar and Poundstern. So after a fairly sizable sell-off, quite a substantial sell-off, the Euro suffered against the UF dollar. In recent months, we have witnessed a bounce back in recent weeks and so the market is pushing higher here, positive momentum is increasing, so the momentum is with the buyers and the market is in the near term appeared to be pointing higher, but we won't need to take out the $118.30, the potential to actually move on further from here and moving north of that could take us up towards $119 or as $120 itself and $120, that is a big psychological number. It's also in and around for the maturity moving average comes into play, so it would mean it would be additionally significant. It shouldn't move north of that level, but at the market, if this does a temporary pullback and we're looking for another leg lower, should we move south here again, we could be looking at testing one spot $16.17 and move below that, could bring us back down to one spot $15.10. As you've seen a bit of a broad UF dollar sell-off recently, it's a similar situation for the Pound versus the UF dollar in that we had a fairly sizable sell-off in April and in April and May and we have seen evidence of some bit of a comeback, but whether the market is just actually bouncing back or it's actually going to be a turnaround or is yet to be seen. After the very sizable sell-off here, the market has been pushing lower since late May, but it's going to run, couldn't really get above the $134.50 area here and managed to actually drift back lower again. The question is whether this pullback today is a breather before we actually take the next leg higher and look to actually retake, look to test and actually retake $134.50 and then beyond that head towards the maturity moving average, this red line here at one spot $35.95 or whether actually going to just drift lower again and if you do drift lower again, we could be heading back down towards $133. There's quite a bit of consolidation in around that in recent weeks and if you go south of $133, we could be looking at retesting the main lows of one spot $3204. Well, that's all for me this week. Thank you very much.


So let's try to solve the equation square root x minus one equals x minus three So we can solve this equation by squaring both sides So over on the left-hand side we have the square of a square root Which will eliminate the square root leaving us with just x minus one Over on the right-hand side. We have x minus three squared So we'll expand that and we'll get a new equation x minus one equals x squared minus 6x plus 9 Since this is a quadratic equation. We have an x squared. We'll want to get all of our terms onto one side So over on the left-hand side, we have an x and so we'll get rid of it by subtracting an x We have a minus one, so we'll get rid of it by adding one and we have to do the same thing to both sides So we'll subtract x and add one to the right-hand side as well And that gives us our new equation And since this is a quadratic equation, we can solve it. We'll use the quadratic formula So we know that our equation has Coefficient of x squared equal to one Coefficient of x equal to minus seven and constant coefficient equal to ten So we'll place these values in the quadratic formula and then simplify and that gives us our solutions five or two Now the disadvantage of the quadratic formula is that it always works on any type of quadratic and doesn't require a lot of trial and error But if you want something that doesn't always work Doesn't always apply and involves a lot of extra work. We could try to factor So we want x squared minus seven x plus ten to be the product of two things Our first terms have to multiply out to x squared. So they have to be x and x Our second terms have to multiply out to plus ten So they've got to be a b where a b is equal to ten and we list every possible pair of numbers that multiply to ten And at this point the only thing we can do is to try every one of these until we either find a factorization Or determine that none of them work. So let's try one and ten So we want to see if x squared minus seven x plus ten is equal to the product x plus one times x plus ten So we'll expand simplify and They are not equal So we try our next possibilities minus one and minus ten So we want to see if x squared minus seven x plus ten is equal to x minus one times x minus ten So we expand and find that they are not equal Third times the charm so two and five have to work So we'll check it out though x plus two times x plus five is going to be unequal Since the universe is a kind and gentle place We know that negative two and negative five have to be the solution. So we won't even bother to check them I would let's check it out Do we actually get a factorization x minus two times x minus five will expand and we find that we are in fact successful But we're not done yet. All we did was factor x squared minus seven x plus ten We have not yet solved the equation. So we have to go through another step Our equation is x squared minus seven x plus ten and all the work that we just did Gave us the factorization for the left-hand side. We have product equal to zero So we know that one of the factors is zero either x minus two is zero and we can solve giving us our solution x equals two or The other factor x minus five is equal to zero so we can solve Giving us the other solution x equals five and it doesn't really matter how we solve it We get the same answer either way We can either use the quadratic equation, which will give us our solution immediately and for all possible quadratics Or we could go through trial and error factorization And plus this additional step to possibly solve it as long as our quadratic is factorable In a kind and gentle universe, you'd always get factorable quadratics Unfortunately, we don't live in that universe You're probably better off using the quadratic formula What important thing to remember is that because we squared a square root It's possible we introduce some extraneous solutions and in general you should always check your solutions But this is especially true if the equations are more complicated than a simple linear equation really However, we solve the equation. We must check to see if the solutions are extraneous so if x equals two will Substitute this into our original equation and see if we truly get a true statement We'll simplify And at this point it's useful to remember that the principle square root of n is never negative So we know that this statement principle square root of one possibly equal to negative one is false So x equals two is not a solution We can say that x equals two is an extraneous solution The other possibility we have is x equals five. So if x is equal to five will substitute Will simplify and principle square root of four is two So x equals five does give us a true statement. So x equals five is a solution And if it's not written down it didn't happen. We might want to say the only solution is x equals five


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Hello again everyone, I'm Ray Gildow, host of Lakeland Currents. Join me this week as I visit with the superintendent and business manager from the Brainerd School District on their comprehensive facility plan.


Alright brothers, we begin taking a look at Zechariah 4 and the text, well, I'll just read and we'll kind of talk a little bit about it. The angel of the Lord spoke to me and returned and aroused me like one awakening from asleep. He said to me, What do you see? I replied, a lamp stand, all gold and a bowl on top of it. There are seven lamps and seven spouts and each of the lamps on top of it. And beside each of it are two olive trees, one to the right bowl and one to the left. Then I said to the angel who spoke with me, What are these things, my Lord? And the angel who spoke to me and replied said, Do you not know what these things are? I said, No, my Lord. Then he said to me, This is the word of the Lord to Zarebabel, Not by might, nor by power, but by the power of your Holy Spirit, says the Lord God of hosts. Amen. Amen. Zarebabel had brought with, Joshua brought the people back. So they were in exile, the Israelites were in exile and he brings them back to Jerusalem and he's got basically one main task and that is to be able to restore the temple. Now, who was it that was talking earlier? I think Deacon this morning was talking about the temple being destroyed. So he's got to come back and he's got to build this. So this vision happens probably about 17 years after they've already been back in Jerusalem, trying to restore, to renew, to rebuild the temple. I love this text because he gets this great image and the angel of the Lord says, Don't you know what this means? And he says, As I do a lot of times, I got no idea. I mean, the Lord will show me something and he goes, Now you realize what I'm trying to say to you, right? Let's just go over this one more time, Lord. A little bit of clarity. So it really doesn't have a sense of what the Lord is trying to say to him and how he's trying to lead him. And what has happened is they've been there for 17 years and little of the restoration has taken place. They say maybe the new cornerstone has been put on. For those of you, my guess is you know what it is to renovate something. So that's what he's called to do. He's called to come back and he's called to renovate this temple and renew it and make it new again. And yet it's not progressing like they had thought. So when he says it's not by might or by power, well, we have to take a look at that. When he hears that word that it says it's not going to be by might, it's not going to be by power. The idea of the word might takes a look at the resources necessary. So do you have the gold? Do you have the stones? Do you have the bricks? Do you have the mortar? Do you have all of these things that you're going to need in order to renew the temple? And it says that it's not by might. So you can have all of that kind of thing and that's not necessarily mean that you're going to be able to do it. So it's not by might or the resources necessary. Nor is it by power. The idea of power in this vision implies motivation. Do you have the desire? Do you have the will? Do you have the passion? Do you have the motivation to be able to do this? The determination to be able to do this. So he's saying it's not by might. I have the resources. It's not merely by power. I have the motivation. I have the desire of the passion to be able to do it. So if that's not going to do it, what in fact is going to do it? How is this temple going to be renovated? How is it going to be made new again? I've had the opportunity to be very, very blessed and be able to go on pilgrimage. And that's part of, I guess, my ministry. Usually once or twice a year I get to take people on pilgrimage to really some of the most holy sites in the world. And again, it's a great blessing. I never imagined when I was ordained that I was going to be able to go to some of the places that I'd been able to go. But there's one particular time I was taking a friend of mine and we were going on pilgrimage to a place very, very dear to our lady. It was in the Notre Dame's football stadium. And we were going there at the time of the renovation. So the football stadium was being renovated. And I was talking to this friend of mine and talking about how they were spending all this kind of money to renovate it and make it bigger and just talking about the amount of money that was being spent. And he said, well, why don't they just tear it down and build a new one? I know. He had no idea what he was saying. I shared that story with my mother. And my mother said, yeah, why don't you just tear down the Vatican while you're at it? Huh? But there becomes this issue when you're looking at something on whether or not it's best to just tear it down and start all over again or whether or not it's best to renovate something. Renovation is difficult. Rebuilding. Renovation. Renewal. Choose the word that you want to use. And that it's difficult. And at some times, there are probably instances where we feel it's just better to just tear it down. Let's just tear the whole thing down and start all over. And I suggest, in fact, that that's easier because when we tear it down, we get to do whatever we want. We don't work with what's necessarily there. And yet, that's not always the case. In fact, most of the times, that's not the case. Some friends of mine live in Houston and in those of you familiar with what's going on in Houston right now, over the last year, there's been flooding. And why they're suggesting that there's flooding that's going on in Houston. But just a little over a year ago, their house was flooded. Within about a period of about an hour, they had four feet of water in the ground floor of their house. They were stuck on top on the second floor for about 12 hours. Not knowing, not sure about how much the water was going to rise. Well, this was an incredibly stressful situation for them. I mean, they lost, it's not just the things, but it's the personal things that they lost. Their wedding pictures were ruined. Some of the things that their children had made when they were younger were ruined. So they went through this whole process after the flood. Are we going to just tear it down? Are we going to renovate? Well, there were a couple of groups of people that lived in that neighborhood. They decided to renovate immediately, and they began the renovation project of which they've been finishing over them over the last six or eight weeks. Again, if you're paying attention, there was another flood about three weeks ago. They made their house once again was flood. In this flood zone that you get a flood every 100 years, or two in a year. Now this couple has come to the place that they've realized that they have to tear down their house, and they have to start all over. And while that's a luxury perhaps that they have to be able to tear down and start all over, the reality is rarely in life do we get that option. So we have to ask ourselves what does renewal look like given the reality that I can't simply tear down and start again. I suggest that when we look at the history of some of the religious communities, those communities that have renewed within, there's a grace in that. There's a particular grace in that because it's much more difficult. It's easier to surround ourselves if we want to renew our parish. That's what we like. And everybody that thinks the same way we think and everybody that wants to do what Father wants to do, I suggest that renewal is much easier that way. Amen? But usually our church doesn't work like that. It seems to me that that's exactly what our Protestant brothers and sisters have done. Is that they surround themselves and then they split and they split. But that's not how it works with us. But renewal is necessary. When we take a look at the history of the church, we see times of renewal projects both in the church and the structures of the church but also in the spiritual life of the church. For the last several years, I was working in Washington, D.C. or before I moved five years, I guess it's been five years ago now. And the parish that I was helping out was having a discussion about how they were going to renovate their parish. That process took two pastors and dozens of parishioners so frustrated with the whole process leaving. Renovation, restoration, renewal is difficult. And I think it's important that we sit with that and we wrestle with that because somewhere along the line we thought that this all was supposed to be easier. But when we're doing a renovation project on a building, say, okay, we take a look at it and we take a look at what's good, what's bad, what can be kept, what can be discarded and that process that we do with the building is also a process that each one of us do in our parish life but that also in our own spiritual life. Francis is before the San Damiano Cross and here's the Lord speak to him, Francis, rebuild my church. It's falling into ruins around you. Now, for some just to be able to say that, some might find that offensive. But what would you possibly say the church is falling into ruins around you? But unless we're open to the possibility or to the necessity, the renewal is possible and that God is asking us to be a part of that, then we're never going to be able to see change. We're never going to be able to see renovation. So what does Francis do? He hears this, the Lord speak to him in this cross and it begins to literally rebuild the church of San Damiano and then he goes to other little churches in the Asesian in the Umbrian Valley and he begins to rebuild them because that's what the Lord told him to do, rebuild these churches. But then he understands eventually that it's not merely about this little church but it's about the larger church. And oftentimes that's where we stop. We all know that story of Francis and it wasn't just building a church, it was building a bigger church but if we go even further, it wasn't even the church, it was him. There was he himself that needed to be rebuilt. He himself that needed to be transformed. And over the years Francis came to understand that it's not only the church and it's not only the building but it's his heart and that his heart needed to be rebuilt and his heart needed to be changed and it was literally falling to ruins. And it took time for Francis to understand that. And it took time for him to understand what that meant. So that if we take a look at the end of Francis' life, we hear Francis say, brothers, let us begin for up until now we have done little. This man who perhaps is one of the greatest saints, I am somewhat partial, but has been called the mirror of Christ. On his deathbed is aware that he still needs transformation because up until now we've done little. The main charism of my Francis community is conversion, specifically Metnoia with this understanding, brothers, that our conversion is never complete, that I am never done, that there's never a time that I can go before the Lord and I say, I got it. Finally I'm there. You know, I've been 20 years a priest now 25 years in vows and I'm thinking the next 25 years I'm floating because I've finally made it, amen. Brothers, the day that we're there is the day that we've got serious struggle and problem. So for my community it's this process of constant conversion, but the reality is that that's difficult because as Pope Francis has been saying time and time again, we like comfort and I think I'm going to get to this later, I think it's one of the greatest sins that we as religious and priests are guilty of and that is we just want our comfort. We want our time, we want our comfort, we don't want to be bothered, we want everyone to do what we want them to do and life is going to be so much more comfortable, amen. But the reality is Pope Francis is reminding us that spiritual life was never meant to be comfortable. Oh, sorry Frank. Would you like to comment? Keep going? Doing alright? Good, good. You let me know, okay? I suppose the difference between us and a building is you can look at the friends of mine in Houston you can look at that home and you can say okay, this needs to be rebuilt. It needs to be torn down. But that's not your story. In fact, it's actually impossible. I'm almost positive we don't get another shot at this.  I'm almost positive we don't get to do that again, amen. So if we don't get a total rebuilt, what do we need? It seems to me we need a renovation. We need renewal. We take a look at 2nd Timothy 1.6. You've all heard it before. For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the spirit of God. I remind you to stir into flame the spirit of God that you have through the imposition of hands. For God did not give you a spirit of cowardice, but rather power and love and self-control. Do not be ashamed of your testimony. I mean, when Paul is writing and he's saying for this reason I remind you to stir in the flame. I mean, how long ago had he received the spirit? I mean, and Paul is already writing him and telling him I want to remind you that you had received that flame, that you had been given that gift that somebody had stopped and they'd laid hands on you and you'd experienced the presence of God and the presence of the Holy Spirit. But Paul is already saying that something has changed that you had this passion and you had this zeal and you had this closeness to the Lord, and that's already dwindling. Stir into flame once again. He's saying to Timothy, you've already had this spirit and it's already run dry and you've already become cold. Stir into flame once again. Brothers and sisters, that's each one of our stories all the time, amen. The time that we say that we don't need to stir in the flame anymore, I've all got it, is the time that we have serious struggle and difficulties and problems. So we go before the Lord and we say stir into flame once again. And it seems to me, brothers, that we need to be able to go before the Lord and have an honest appraisal and ask the Lord, how am I doing? When I take a look at my spiritual life and being faithful to you and being faithful to the call that you've given to me as a priest, deacon, married person, seminarian, as a basic Christian, disciple of Jesus Christ, how am I doing? How is it that I become stagnant? That I become tired? I mean, how do we do this appraisal? First off, brothers, we need to be praying. We need to continually going before the Lord and we've heard this theme several times of allowing the Lord to look at us. The Holy Spirit shows us ourself when we take a look at John 16.8. Ah, let's see. Let's see, let's see. I tell you the truth that is better that I go, and I always question that. Really, Jesus, is it better? I tell you the truth that is better that I go for if I do not go, the advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you and when he comes to you, he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation. Huh? I mean, how do we have this honest appraisal? We go before the Lord and we say, Spirit of God, convict me. Spirit of God, consume me. Just consume me and show me myself. Not only my sin, we're going to talk about that in a moment, but also my righteousness. I mean, how do I have an honest appraisal about where we are, where I am before the Lord? We go before the Lord and we ask the Holy Spirit as we hear in the Psalms that you would probe me, that you would look at me, that you would see me, that you would reveal me. Convict me of my sin. The Lord convicts us to convert us, not condemn us. Amen? Convict me of my sin, Lord, but also convict me of my righteousness. We need to be able to go before the Lord and seek the grace of the Holy Spirit to have an honest appraisal of where we stand before Him and allow the Spirit of God to reveal that to us. We need to be able to pray for the gift of discernment to know what's going on, to be able to see, to be able to see ourself, see the things that need to change, see the things we need to be able to go to spiritual direction and be honest and be accountable with somebody. I meet with Bishop Sam Jacobs and we're only able to get together maybe once a year, but we talk on the phone and we share and we Skype some time and I know that that's important for me. And during Lent I just got really busy and I didn't talk to him at all during Lent and by the grace of God I had to send an email and there's something else. I don't know how well you know Bishop Sam, but he is very short on words. I'll send an email that's like five pages long and you'll write back and you'll say yes. So he wrote me and it was another topic that we were dealing about and he said, isn't it time that we meet? Yes, Bishop. It is time that we meet. That we're able to share our life with somebody that we can be radically honest. There's no way that we can have a self-appraisal brother unless we've got other sets of eyes being able to look because I know how biased I am and sometimes I'm much too critical on myself and other times I'm not hard enough. That's why I continue to pray that the Spirit does that and continue to pray that I have discernment but also pray that the Lord sends people into my life, not just a spiritual director but brothers. One of my brothers, Father Danny, Danny and I get together every couple of weeks and maybe it's only for 10 or 15 minutes and we say basically, how are you? Sometimes it's pretty good, sometimes it's pretty crappy. Sorry. We need that. We need relationships, brothers. And again, I think one of the tendencies we have is that we try to hide. We don't want to be seen partly because we don't like what we see and we certainly don't want anyone else to see it but probably we don't know.  How often do we, if we're honest, we say, I don't know. I'll say something because but do we really know and I think it's imperative that we do know. Amen, brothers? So we ask ourselves, as we're doing this evaluation with renovation, what's good, what's bad, what do we keep, what do we need to get rid of? Where are we stuck? Where are we stagnant? Where are we just limping along? And that's not to say that there aren't occasions in our life where we feel that and we just have experiences, it's what I call seasons. I mean, there are seasons in our life that we just, we're kind of just getting along and we're just kind of limping along and that's where discernment is necessary. Is it just this season that I'm going through, a season of dryness, a season of difficulty or is there something else that's going on? And we need to be able to answer that question. I mean, I understand fully the seasons. I may be 25 years ago at that. We should always be on fire and always have this radical zeal. I understand now over walking this walk a while that there are times of dryness in our spiritual life. But that I can identify that that the time of dryness is a grace time. It's not just because I haven't prayed. I always got a kick when I was working here at the university. This 18-year-old would come up to me and say, Father, I'm going through the dark night of the soul. Which is possible as an 18-year-old. I'm wrong. I believe that that is in fact possible. I said, okay, well, let's talk about your prayer. He goes, well, I'm not really praying. But you're pretty sure you're going through the dark night. Yeah, because it's really hard for me to pray. Well, welcome to the world of being a disciple of Jesus. But we have to be able to identify that. Through grace and through the presence of the Spirit of God and through spiritual direction and brotherhood and accountability that I can say, okay, I think this is why I'm going through a stagnant time or a dryness, that I think it's a season. I'm doing all the things quote-unquote that I think I'm supposed to do. Okay, then this is a season. And spring will come. I shared that I went to a confession recently and the priest said to me, the first thing he said after my confession was today's a new day. That brought life to my soul. Today's a new day. And for some of us brothers, we're going through a season. It's a season of dryness. And it's a season of despair, not despair, a total despair, but it's a season of difficulty and struggle. But it's just that. But how do we know? Discernment. Prayerful reflection. Spiritual direction. So that we can say, okay, I don't have to tear this down. It's not something that has to be tore down and rebuilt. It's a season that I'm going through. Amen. Those who are struggling, those who find themselves in great difficulty and you're able to discern that something's not right, I think we have to ask ourselves, are we bored? Having been able to do spiritual direction with more and more priests over the last many years, I think if they're honest, oftentimes they're bored. There's no sense of... It's not that they're not busy. There's a difference. One can be very busy and still be bored. But there's not a sense of life that they're doing. Their ministry has become busyness and their ministry has become motion and their ministry has become tasks and that it's not life giving. And because of that, they're bored. We have to ask ourselves what's going on. I think some are, they're hurt and they're unappreciated. I think I've been ordained 20 years now and I think I can begin to think back on ordination in 20 years of ministry. I remember I had been ordained for maybe a year and Father Mike Scanlon and I got invited to Peoria to do some preaching there. It was funny, it was on Halloween. We went out to dinner for Halloween one night and we were both in habit and we walked into this restaurant and they go, it was great. They go, that is so cool. And as soon as she said it, she realized those aren't costumes are. They said, no, they're actually not. You would have got a prize. It's like, what's the prize? They had invited, again, Father Mike and myself to give these, it was a day of retreat for priests and they had invited us to give these two talks. The first one was on love and evangelization and the second one was on persevering through the struggles of priesthood, of which that was the one I was asked to give a talk on. I've been ordained for a year, alright. There were no struggles. There were no difficulties. There was no persevering, alright. It was just, everything was great. So I said, Father Mike, how about you give that one? He goes, alright, that's probably a good idea. Probably, huh? But now that I've been ordained 20 years, I feel I can look back. And I think one of the struggles we have, brothers, is we work our butts off often times with really relatively no appreciation. Now I fully understand, we do not do this just to be appreciated. This is part of the reason why prayer is so important is that we go before the Lord and we let the Lord minister to us but every now and then it would be nice, huh? And because of this we get hurt and we get frustrated and we get angry and we get bitter and that must be renewed and we have got to be able to recognize that and see that and say, okay Lord by the Spirit of God convicted of this and say, this isn't how I want to be help me how are we going to deal with it? How are we going to be renovated? How are we going to be made new? For some, we're stuck in sin and we have to be able to identify that and look at that. What is that? And the sin often times is selfishness it's laziness it's love of comfort sorry Frank I had to say it again it's pride it's an independent spirit it says nobody is going to tell me what to do it's a rebellious spirit that says it's going to be my way I have to ask the Lord what is it that you want to convict me and so that I don't get stuck in this stuck in this sin and stuck in these habits of doing the same thing and the sin which surrounds itself with wasting too much time watching TV just in honor of Father Francis Martin we should just throw it out the window everybody Father Francis Martin told us every year we should throw our TVs out the window and our computers if we're honest I don't have a TV in my room no I do not but I've got a computer but I don't have a TV in my room those of you who do should get rid of them I think one of the areas that the Lord wants to move in our life and it goes to the point of being bored and to be stuck and to be stagnant and is that there is no vision Proverbs 28 19 says a people without vision will perish without vision there is no hope I remember one of our friars he spoke and he said we can live I don't know 30 days without food 20 days without water 3 days without a beer and he said whatever it is but he says we cannot live a moment without hope we cannot live a moment without hope but brothers I believe because for lots of reasons and all the some of what are the ones that I've mentioned and being beaten down but I believe that largely we have no vision not only and I'm not talking about a parish I'm talking about me people without a vision perish the scripture says what is the vision that the Lord is giving you in your life not even not your parent you in your life the vision that gives you life the vision I mean if you were to write on a piece of paper very small piece of paper the Lord the vision the Lord is giving me is what and I think it's fundamentally true with people without a vision perish how do we get to this place we're all well meaning reflecting I don't know if it's true or not so don't tell me if it's not because it's a great story Vincenzo Bardi did one I don't know couple of Super Bowls and several years after that the Packers were not very good anymore somebody asked him how did this happen Vincenzo Bardi how did this happen and his reference was death by inches and by that he made we said we made lots of small decisions that in and of themselves did not seem like a big deal in and of themselves but over time in accumulation we made a big deal and that's why the team is no longer good that's true in my life individual this isn't that big a deal I mean this is not objective this is not that big of a deal and neither is this and this isn't either and we wake up and we ask ourselves how did I get here I remember I had an opportunity to go to Kenya and I think the Lord brought me to Kenya just to hear this preach this Bishop preach and the Bishop was preaching about prayer and he said that the Lord gives us gifts and I know he was speaking about gifts and he said the Lord gives us gifts and he just was preaching about gifts and then he said and the Lord will take that gift away if we don't use it and as soon as he said the word penetrated my heart and I began to weep because I knew that the Lord was speaking to me through him and that was the gift of prayer that I think I've prayed every day of my life I don't think there's every day that I remember that I did not pray I remember as a high schooler coming home from a party drunk kneeling next to my bed praying as the room is spinning and the spirit is moving and yet as a newly ordained priest my prayer had become very functional I would get it in because there were so many other things to do and places to be and exciting things to experience that my prayer had become a function and it ceased to be a relationship and I asked myself how did this happen well it happened in lots of little things well you know I'm just going to cut off a few minutes here and I can do it later or here's what I'm going to do I usually do my holy hour but I'm just going to do my office now and I'll do this later individually one day didn't make a big deal over a matter of weeks death by inches how did I get here sometimes as I mentioned it's a season in life that needs to be transformed ensuring the other is again taking a look at how do we renovate and how do we rebuild what caused the problem that we're in all the things that I mentioned but other is what I call natural disasters I mean what caused the flood that they had to renovate and rebuild these homes a natural disaster but in our own experience it's disasters it's death it's his father just passed away and he said it's so strange not having my dad I mean this causes movement in our heart and in our spiritual life and we need to be able to say where is this coming from why is it that I'm not able to pray why is it that I'm struggling with these things why do I feel like there's no hope no passion no vision in my life Spirit of God penetrate my heart and show yourself to me because I need to be renewed and brothers that will reiterate if we hear that and we say well okay not I, I don't need to be renewed that's not it I don't personally think that's of the Lord I think this renewal is constant for each one of us amen so we identify in this discernment process of what do we need to get rid of so as to be able to rebuild as to be able to renew but the Spirit not only convicts us of what is bad it also convicts us and convicts us of what is good so we look at ourselves and we see some things that are quite good in every one of us that's why we don't need a total rebuild the scripture reminds us that we are loved by God amen that we are the Amago Dei Gregory the Great said that if we were able to see each other the way God sees us we would be tempted to bow down and worship to bow down before you because the spirit of God and the glory of God dwells in you so in the worst days that we have we can still stand and be front of a mirror and we can say I am the Amago Dei amen so as bad as we think we are as tough as times are that never change because we are fundamentally created in God's image and likeness and we build on that and that will never change amen it doesn't matter how bad we are how many sins we've committed how many times we've done whatever we are the Amago Dei the image of God amen and that is what we build on is that I reflect the image and likeness of God amen and that's a pretty good foundation and that the spirit of God dwells within me and that the love of God dwells within me those are pretty good foundations as Frank mentioned last night that the love that I have may not at time may not ever be perfect but in moments of grace I want to love and I claim that and I pray for that and that's not a bad foundation amen we have prayer as imperfect as it may be pretty good foundation we have the sacraments Eucharist not bad sacrament of reconciliation quite the fan all of these great things so it's not like we need this total rebuild the word of God all of these things are within us but we go back to the opening text that I read from the scriptures not by might these are all great things and these are all materials but it's not enough and not by power it's not just me willing it it's not me just putting my heels together and wishing three times like Dorothy and something magically is going to happen but renewal has to be more than that it has to be as the prophet said the spirit of God within us so how do we cooperate with that spirit one is that we recognize that we are we do have strength that it's not that I have no power within myself because I do have power we do have power the Lord has graced us and this is a part of it God has given me reason and he's given me understanding and he's given me desires and talents and all of those kinds of things and God can use that sometimes it's like we just stand and say don't ask me to do anything just renew me some of you know Father Sam T.C. Father Sam was always at this youth conference for years and years and years I love Father Sam Father Sam chose the Franciscans over the Benedictines we spend years and years young people decades discerning what does God want me to do so what did Father Sam T.C. do felt like he was called to be a priest wasn't sure if he was called to be a Dominican but he did over in that area of Pennsylvania so what did he do Father Sam took out a map, took out a ruler figured out which one was closer Franciscans so he became a friar he always told people I became a friar by a quarter of an inch they said what do you mean it's like they were a quarter of an inch closer to La Trobe so I became a friar that's how Fr. Sam T.C. discerned he was a great priest for a long time amen Sam smoked for a number of years and he really wanted to quit the Lord he said Lord give me the grace to quit smoking and I'll quit and the Lord said to him Sam quit smoking and I'll give you the grace we have power within us because of that's not all it takes but to say that okay God just do something as if it takes no sense of cooperation or no sense of my own strength that simply isn't the case I was struck by bishops sharing on Monday night excuse me Tuesday night when he talked about his Lent and he said he did all of those difficult things in Lent and he slept on a hard board and he in the floor and all of these kinds of things and he woke up on Easter morning and it was the worst Easter morning ever because there was nothing else he could do so it's not just by our strength I mean just that resonated with myself it's like Lord I try to do and I try to do and I try to do and I use the strength that you've given me it's not enough so we use other things we use the power of the world I mean the world has power that's not totally corrupt it's pretty much corrupt but not totally corrupt that there are things available that can help us to organize and to administrate better and these models for some therapy I mean all of these things in the world it's not totally corrupt it can help us as well but again with it says the Spirit of God it's not by might and it's not by power but it's by the Spirit of God and brothers we need to hear this that if I am going to be renewed that it's the Spirit of God and it seems that we come to understand that all of these things that I mentioned that are good, the Imago Dei all of the sacraments, all of that's good but it's not enough I mean it seems odd that we who are most of us my guess is they're going to mass the sacrament every day which is a great grace and a great blessing and perhaps going to confession John gave the talk on Monday night about the sacrament of reconciliation which is a great power but I suggest that it's not just that there's a Domenic in Aquinas is his name alright so Aquinas would even say that it wasn't enough Aquinas would say how is it possible that we could be receiving the Eucharist and we could be receiving the sacrament of reconciliation and we could be baptism and confirmation and we could still live a life that is stuck in sin and mired and struggle and difficulty how is that possible and Aquinas would say that we need a second sending a new sending of the Holy Spirit we cannot do this by ourselves even the great graces that we have in the sacraments it needs a renewal of the Holy Spirit that brings that alive Amen as Ralph said this morning it's our job but do we walk away from every time we celebrate the Mass every time we participate in Mass do we walk away changed renewed transformed rebuilt and I suggest that the only way that that can happen is through the power of the Holy Spirit I mean that's the main reason I did the wild goose because I've been traveling around for many years now and I see a population of people who are going to the sacraments and they're missing out they're going to the sacraments and they're walking out no different they're going to the sacraments and not recognizing the power they're getting in line on Monday and they're going to be there again next Monday with no radical change in their life yes that there's a freedom in their soul but the concrete experience that they're having isn't radically changing them they we need a renewal in the Holy Spirit and this is key it's not by my strength so we go before the Lord Brothers and we admit that we need renewal but unlike that when we gather together and we if we're going to build a new building I remember when they for the library here in this building they have this big ceremony where you you take these shovels that are in gold and you have this grand opening and the groundbreaking and all these kinds of things you have these these events that mark something new a new building a new ordained something new huh to quote the Dominican again Aquinas I don't say that with contempt I really like Aquinas just don't understand 90% of what he said the day the day we're doing ordained there's something new but Aquinas says is that when we experience this Holy Spirit this second sending this awakening this renewal he said that there are two things that come about in habitation but the other is innovation something new something new happens in us a new love of the scriptures a new love of prayer a new desire to have adoration that when we experience the Holy Spirit there's this renewal that takes place in us and we need to have things that mark that again when we create something new a new building or something like that we have events that mark that but as death happens slowly we need to make a decision and a choice that I'm going to be different from this moment forward it's going to be different I remember when the bishop was preaching in Africa I went to my knees after that and I said Jesus I'm going to pray different because of this and I had this marker I remember when I turned 33 fasting has been important to me since I was a kid fasting with my mom on vigils and Easter and that kind of thing and I remember when I turned 33 I decided I was going to fast in a particular way for one year for my year the year of the Lord 33 and that's something I've done for the last 19 years now at the beginning of my birthday I go before the Lord and I say Lord what do you want me to fast for for this year and I spend a year fasting for that but there's these markers that we need that we look to these moments and we look to these events that we say okay my life changed something is changing in me here I remember coming to this field house and it was a baccalaureate mass and it was Cardinal Bevilacqua Philadelphia I believe and I was recently ordained and I was watching him celebrate mass and I was touched by the fact that after he received communion and he received from the cup so often times what my experience was and what I saw other people you go on and you do what you have to do so you receive communion and then you go but the cardinal he received the blessed sacrament he received communion and he waited it wasn't like he waited 5 minutes he waited for 10 or 15 seconds and he just received the Eucharist he prayed for a moment and then he went on and did the other I've not celebrated mass the same since I watched him since I experienced him do that it's like I don't have to be in such a hurry I don't have to just receive the Eucharist and go do something else but I can receive for a moment and I changed it was a simple moment of renewal but I can look at that and I can mark that and brothers I think we need things like that in our life that we mark it this is what God did here this is what God did there and so often times we don't take the time to be able to reflect and see what it is that the Lord wants to do you see I want brothers to live a life of renewal and a life of renewal is a life which is constantly changing and constantly new it makes me sick no sense of movement makes me sick I grew up in Colorado my father always taught us you don't drink water from an area of a stream that's stagnant because that's where the disease is you always get the water from where it's moving through because it's safer to drink that I want to be moving constantly I want to be renewed and rebuilt and transformed so that the person you see now is not the same person that you saw five years ago to say that God has not done something in my life since then I want to be put in a position where I absolutely have to trust in the Lord that it's not my own strength it's not my own might it's not my own power but it's the spirit of God operating in my life and that's what I don't want the Lord just simply to bless the plans that I give him bless what I'm doing Lord I rather want to do what the Lord blesses the Lord not just simply having him bless me I want to be put in a position that says Lord if you don't show up in big big trouble because the only way that this is going to work is if you come through I want to be David standing before Goliath and say if this stone doesn't doesn't bring him down I am in big trouble amen you know and the Lord invites us to that the story of the scriptures when the apostles wanted to stay on the shore and Jesus says you know come out and they come out into the sea and there's a big storm they would have never had the grace of being able to depend on the Lord had they never been in that storm they were in the middle of the storm and the Lord had to save them and rescue but if we never allow ourselves to be in a position where the Lord rescues us we don't get the thrill of what that's like I want the thrill of walking on water I want the thrill of being able to walk on water amen and people see that they see us walking on water and that inspires them have your parishioners seen you walk on water Father because you are going to be so embarrassed if it doesn't work I remember one time because I get to travel a bit and people are often picking me up and taking me places I've just had different events and experiences and I remember one time I was in Orlando and the lady was taking me to the airport and I said I want to live my life fully alive just radically alive and she goes oh I don't want to live like that at all I said are you serious because people will see me if I live like that and they'll shoot at me and they will and they will they will shoot at us I had one of my alumni at the university contacted me a couple of years ago and he said Father Dave do you ever look at Amazon the reviews of the books that you've written and I said no actually I haven't he said you need to okay I found myself going and reading these and one time I was with my younger brother and his family and we were reading these because they will shoot at you so this was one of the headlines of one of the reviews these were all about my book on the Camino the headline of this one says I wouldn't if I were you I was very disappointed in this book it was more of a the name of the book is 500 miles hiking the Camino with Jesus okay that's the name of the book I was very disappointed with this book it was more like a find Jesus book and less of a hiking the Camino it's filled with scriptures and talk of sin and giving your life to God it was that kind of book I found myself skipping pages to find sentences about the Camino so this was the headline of the next one ugly American becomes a priest and walks the Camino okay you know this is going to be a good review people will shoot at us okay so it says while the book has some interesting episodes here and there and some insights worth contemplating now and then it was far more missed opportunities and frustration so much of the author's own personal story is steeped in dismissive culture of provincialism the author had been a priest for 10 years before going on a pilgrimage but the writing of all those sermons did not help him develop in any way an engaging style of his own ironically his narrative style can be as pedestrian I would only recommend that the reader skip this book but also learn the author's name so as to avoid ever suffering through one of his masses this is fantastic this is great okay they will shoot at us amen so this was good unfortunately the book did not serve my needs nor am I certain what the audience was generated towards overall I would be so bold to classify this book as a reading memoir it's readable but offers nothing substantial forgive me father I would rather read St. Augustine Augustine Confessions Pavanka Kamino Kamino Pavanka Augustine I would read confessions as well alright this one was nice okay this was a nice little review the reviewer gave me one star and it was stated in her review of the book one star this book was very good very inspirational one star what she want me to do her laundry for her alright so so this was kind of funny so we were talking my brother and I were reading some of these laughing my niece was in the room we weren't really paying attention she was 11 years old and she was in the room listening to what was going on she began to get frustrated and she goes what do you mean she didn't know it was about Jesus the title of the book is 500 miles with Jesus so she's frustrated later in the night me and my brother were showing my sister in law these reviews my niece again maybe 10 or 11 years old had gone on and given her own review and she wrote this is the best book I've ever read I've read this book 10 times and then she says my uncle is a wonderful author it's like oh my god so it's going to so I said Rob you need you need to delete that huh so it's possible that not everybody's going to be inspired by us trying to walk on water it's possible in fact it's probable none of these people crucified me so to speak I mean why should we be surprised the world does not want us to be operating and living in the power of the spirit of god the world wants us to work on our own power on our own might on our own strength because ultimately will fail and that's not how we can live brothers that leads to frustration leads to to impotence it leads us to know life it's but by the spirit of god so we go before the lord and we ask lord lord what do you want to do in me to renew me to transform me to rebuild me to give me vision how do we do this Francis came to understand that the renewal was about himself and in that it began to transform people around him and it's the same with us that we go before the lord and we ask that his spirit awaken something in us a client was right that every time we receive the spirit of god something new comes from that but brothers we do this time and time again the reason I always have a little rose around my finger is I pray I don't know how many times a day I'm praying for the spirit and that's all I pray and I made this deal with the lord I said lord every time this bead goes through my fingers I'm just saying come holy spirit and I'll be in situations where I'm having a conversation with somebody or multitasking but this still goes through my finger and a prayer that lord I can't do this by myself and I've tried and I realize where it gets me and if I'm going to be able to renew the temple as we heard at the very description it invited them Joshua and Zerba Bella to do and it's inviting me to do and it's this temple first that needs to be renewed and it's not by strength and it's not by might and it's not by power but it's by the spirit of god amen


Thank you very much. Thank you. Secretary Bell and Assistant Secretary Korb, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome. It's a pleasure to have you all here. I confess I get a little nervous with so many presidents and chief executive officers in the room who's tending the store. May I also say hello to those who are joining us by way of closed circuit television. The students and teachers of the Congress Heights Elementary School here in Washington. It's good to be talking to Congress Heights and to welcome all of you here for this important ceremony here at the White House. It's a home that belongs to you and to all Americans. America's always had a love affair with learning, from polished men of letters like Thomas Jefferson to humble, self-taught people like Abe Lincoln and from inventors like Thomas Edison to visionaries like Martin Luther King. Americans have put their faith in the power of education to enrich lives and to make our nation strong. We see the evidence of this in many fine schools, like Congress Heights, with thousands of dedicated superintendents, principals, and teachers. But we also face tremendous problems. Between 1963 and 1980, scholastic aptitude test scores were in a virtually unbroken decline. Too many of our states demanded too little of their students imposing lax graduation requirements. And compared to students in other industrialized nations, many of ours performed badly. Yet even as we've recognized the challenge, our nation has begun to respond. One of our administration's first priorities was to establish a national commission on excellence and education. And we asked it to help us chart a new course that would permit us to correct the mistakes of the past. Even before the commission released its report, grassroots America had begun to move. Since 1980, no fewer than 20 states have passed tougher certification laws so that only fully qualified teachers can enter the classroom. In about the same period, more than half the school districts in the country have raised the number of credits they require in such basics as English, science, and math. And 38% more school districts will upgrade their standards by 1985. Throughout the land, parents, teachers, and school officials have begun vigorous work to improve the fundamentals, not fancy budget structures, not frills in the curriculum, but teaching and learning. To quote Secretary Bell, what's going on now represents the greatest, most far-reaching, and most promising reform and renewal of education since the turn of the century. One aspect of this great renewal is the reason we're gathered here today. Across the country, groups of working men and women have been forming partnerships with schools, partnerships in dedication, to form a partnership volunteers from a business, a government agency, or other organizations strike an agreement with a school, to develop programs that will help the school students in a number of basic ways. The volunteers might tutor students, establish scholarship funds, donate furnishings and equipment, or teach classes. In Dallas, over 1,000 businesses have formed partnerships with 175 schools. And in Chicago, 133 organizations have formed partnerships with 140 schools. San Diego schools benefit from partnerships with groups, including the Chargers, the Padres, and the United States Navy. One way the Navy helps students in San Diego incidentally is by arranging for pen pals. And I can't imagine anything that sparks a volunteer's or a youngsters' imagination, I should say, more than a letter from a sailor describing far-off lands or islands in the South Pacific or even a sunrise at sea. But let's remember, all those partnerships already established still involve only a few thousand American schools out of a total of some 110,000. So today, I'm issuing a challenge to America to ensure our children get the education they deserve. That has resolved that every one of our countries, public, private, and parochial schools and community colleges, all 110,000 of them, will have formed a partnership in education. The goal is lofty but well within the reach of a nation that can send men to the moon. I know that this room is filled with men and women from business and education who've helped create partnerships in education in their communities. To you and behalf of all Americans, thank you. Large companies like Xerox, IBM, Federal Express, General Motors, and CNA Insurance. Organizations like the American Bar Association, the Professional Engineering Societies, and the National Association of Manufacturers. And let's not forget these smaller companies like thousands of Burger King restaurants, local radio shack stores, and the group and cable TV stations. There are also innovative programs in private schools like Philadelphia's parochial schools and Providence St. Mel in Chicago. And to the leaders of the three TV networks who are here today, thank you for your commitment to partnerships in education. But we all know there's much more to be done. Everyone must get involved. So I'm directing the federal government to promote partnerships in education in every way that it can. Last week, I signed a proclamation naming the 1983-84 school year the National Year of Partnerships in Education. My special assistant met here. Jim Coyne and his staff will work on the program throughout the year. They'll be working with state governments, industry organizations, business associations, and other groups, and working with a nationwide computer system called DataNet to help schools and partners get together. I intend to sign a memorandum asking the heads of all departments and agencies of the federal government to follow the example of those sailors in San Diego by forming their own partnerships with local schools. This won't be an expensive new government program. It'll be human and effective with thousands of men and women whose jobs range from designing satellites to building our bridges and highways, joining those in the private sector to lend a hand to our nation's schools. Now, I understand that the principle of Congress Heights Elementary School is here with us. Bill Dalton, would you please join me? Come up here. Mr. Dalton, all of you watching at Congress Heights, I have a surprise for you. You were told that closed circuit TVs put in your school were there because WJLA television here in Washington was going to form a partnership with you. Well, that wasn't quite right. With your permission, Mr. Dalton, it's the White House which would like to form a partnership with your school. We'd like to pitch in at Congress Heights tutoring, showing students how the White House works, helping them further develop their academic skills, and talking to them about our jobs here and the careers that we had before we came here. And by the way, if there's anybody interested in lifeguarding, sports announcing on radio or movie acting, I'd be happy to help, too. I didn't mention one of the better jobs that I've had, which was washing dishes in the girl's dormitory. And finally, let me just say a word to you, the students at Congress Heights. You don't have to take notes, because I promise not to give a pop quiz. You've probably heard a lot about the importance of dwindling resources. Well, I want you to know that our greatest resource is the human mind, and it isn't dwindling at all. There's no limit to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. And that's why giving all of you a good education is so very important. Just 100 years ago in the time of our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, oil was nothing but so much sticky, smelly fluid. And it was the invention of the internal combustion engine that turned oil into a resource. And today, oil fuels the world economy. Just 10 years ago, around the time many of you were born, sand was nothing but the stuff that deserts are made of. Today, we use sand to make silicon chips that guide satellites through the infinite reaches of space. So remember, in this vast and beautiful land that God has given us, it's not what's inside the earth that counts, but what's inside your hearts and minds, because that's the stuff that dreams are made of. And America's future is in your dreams. Make them come true. Thank you all very much.