Episode Transcript
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Look at this bad boy.
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It's a big machete.
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A friend gave it to me for my 21st birthday.
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On the box it had printed,
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"use in case of a zombie apocalypse".
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Thankfully I haven’t had to use it yet.
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But I guess that the idea is
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if there ever was a zombie apocalypse,
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I’d not only use this to defend myself
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but to hack, cut away at, and remove
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any unwanted or unnecessary
objects from my path.
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So that I can get to my desired location
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as whole, as healthy, and with the least
amount of damage as possible.
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Over the last four weeks
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that’s exactly what we've been
doing in our Lenten journey.
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We have intentionally been trying
to strip away
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all of the unnecessary and unhealthy
parts of ourselves
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so that we can make it through
to our destination.
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Which is Easter, the great
paschal triduum.
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We've been doing a bit of
spiritual pruning.
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Through fasting,
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we've been trying to remove the
distractions and comforts
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that dull our hunger for God.
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Through prayer,
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we grow closer to God helping us to see
what needs healing or change.
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And through Almsgiving,
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we cut away, cut through
selfishness,
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turning outward in love.
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That’s what Lent prepares us for,
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to cut through everything which keeps us from God.
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So we can run into His arms, renewed and whole.
