Episode 084: Back to Virtue - Prudence

welcome to godsplaining contemplative preachers contemporary age each week join the dominican friars as they consider all things catholic hello and welcome back to god's planning i'm father gregory pine and i am joining here from freeburg switzerland so just living my best life here not quite in the alps although everyone assumes that when you live in switzerland you live in the alps that you wear a dirndl and that you yodel in your free time alas none of those things are true about my life but one thing is true i'm here with father joseph anthony kress who is joining from charlottesville virginia father joseph anthony how are things things are phenomenal uh the semester's going well uh now that we're into it we our students are out of their total lockdown so we had a little bit of a uh coveted spike and they're out of that and trying to get back into things so things are going well uh it's it's weird to be in mid-march and middle of lent uh and trying to figure out how to do triduum pandemic style like that's that's what we're planning right now because last year we just didn't do that uh so like yeah this is this is a roller coaster of a ride like how do we how do we do triton with pandemic happening but it's it's good i i have to ask that like i hope you're working towards at least one of those three things that you said earlier like i hope you're either working towards wearing a dirndl or uh yodeling like one of those two please tell me you're making progress towards that at some point yeah truth be truth be told actually after i said dirndl i realized i think that that's like typical austrian dress for women it is 100 typical male dress yeah is a lederhosen i don't actually know if that applies to switzerland i assume that it might because you know i don't i don't imagine people in their local dress being too terribly concerned about local boundaries they're like i feel fair later except i am on this side of the border so i don't think that happens i imagine they i mean everything has mounted in the house every mountain region has its own style and its own clothes so but they they translate over it's like oh i know that's mountainous so um maybe switch from the dirt doors to the later is it yeah well that's certainly a good move that's a move in the right direction i would say i mean the mountain culture in the united states is more like you know wrangler jeans and um i don't know what the other thing flannel but that's the thing that came to my mind yeah exactly flannel right so um yeah maybe i'm just looking for my local equivalent i have not yet found it people here are all very like sporting um so they have gear and equipment uh one of which is trekking poles everyone here uses trekking poles it's incredible like you're going to the you're going to the supermarket that's a good like 0.37 kilometers you know what you need you need your reusable bag because you are eco-conscious i'm not making fun of these people i'm just noting things um and then you also bring your tracking poles right because it's a track is the best way to be happy late in life yeah well the best way to be happy late in life is what these people say and i tend to agree with them is that you start young right so you make prudent decisions about your knees about the cartilage in your knees and all associated pain bearing or pain communicating parts of your knees from a young age so it's really impressive um here i am you know downstream of a knee surgery so obviously i'm not making fun of this i'm just noting it and i'm just handing that on to you in the course of that explanation i used a word that signifies a virtue and it is a beautiful word and here we are in our fourth of seven episodes so father jacob burton said at one point that we were going to surprise you with the uh with the virtues that were to come and then he he subsequently went on to name all of them uh so it's it's a surprise like i do surprises like when he says for guest splitting in january it'll be a surprise and then the next episode i say for guest playing in january we're going to have father mike schmitz because that's how surprises work you know on god's planning so here we are with that little lewd prelude interlude lewd lewd uh talking about the virtue of prudence um so let's set it up father joseph anthony prudence is a virtue give me the basic contours what are we talking about when we talk about virtue uh yes prudence when we talk about that virtue right it's uh within the context of the acquired virtues the moral virtues we're not talking about theological here we're talking about the acquired virtues and it's um it's right reason applied to action right that's how uh aquinas talks about it and that's going to be kind of like the the home base we keep coming back to uh throughout all of our discussion is understand that prudence is this right reason in action um so there's going to be this double element of making sure that our reason is informed correctly and that we have to make judgments uh on situations and uh circumstances and then we move that into action um so i think there there can be this misconception that a prudence is just um deliberation maybe like looking at something kind of deliberating what is the right thing to do or what would be the best thing to do but prudence actually then makes that final step and moves it into action and so prudence uh is is intellectual virtue but it also moves it in towards into action itself yeah it's um so when you think about it in terms of okay how would like plato aristotle cicero smart people who talked about the virtues who came before christ how would they have thought about this well for them prudence was like the deal yeah uh which sounds to us a bit strange because when we hear prudence we usually think of like george bush saying that a military engagement at this time would not be prudent um we associate it with like a kind of risk aversion an unwillingness to make a bold or decisive move if we suspect that doing so might lead to you know like catastrophic failure of some sort so like prudence for us sounds like caution maybe even halting deliberation and yet these guys are like no dude that i don't mean they didn't say dude i would like to said like the latin or greek equivalent of dude but um no no no prudence is just exactly yeah so um prudence is of the very substance of human perfection and it's there's a reason that you point out so it does what it thinks and it's associated with action so it bridges i'm going to say the gap there is no gap but it bridges intellect and will which is huge because what we are about in human life is the perfecting of intellect and will i mean you could describe what we are about in a variety of senses right we're about the pursuit of god and in the pursuit of god we want to acquire those perfections or receive those perfections which suit us well to enjoying god who is himself you know perfect truth perfect goodness right um so that means that where you know like what are what are we in the uh kind of most quintessential sense of what are we we are thinking and loving beings right so we're set apart from the beast by the virtue of the fact that we can know and that we can love right so it's it's paramount it is of paramount importance that we acquire the types of virtues which perfect these actions and prudence they would isolate it as peculiarly excellent because it does both this this knowing and this doing dimension it does doing okay i'm i'm just i'm on an eloquence check right now so father joseph anthony bail me out what are some other introductory thoughts about prudence when we set up this conversation how are we trying to virtue that once again it's discerning or i mean not discerning man you got me kicking um but it disposes the individual to discern the true good like in every circumstance but not just to discern like what is good but the means by which to accomplish that as well and so like you you were pointing out and this is one of the uh unique things about prudence and why it's really so beautiful um and they even say why it's so human is because it starts to integrate both the intellect and the will so you start to discern the good that exists the good that is uh in this situation but then the means by which to uh achieve and accomplish that and attain that good and to put that forth into action and so um i i think there are times i we we think of the prudent man as this individual who like you know is the sage council and the wise one uh and you know there's we can even jump further to the gifts of the holy spirit uh and how those in uh perfect the virtue of prudence as well um council wisdom but um we we think of in this kind of common parlance of using that word the prudent man is the man who just is able to kind of sit back like the chess master move the pieces around and see and kind of foretell what's going to happen um and then make suggestions but that's not this it's prudence actually in action it's not just making the suggestions not predicting what's going to happen but it's being able to see the good and the the best means to achieve that good in setting that forth into action then so that's okay that's a good entree for a description of how prudence relates to the moral virtues this will be the most philosophically involved thing not said by father bonaventure on god's planning for the month so cheers here we go so prudence is in conversation with the other moral virtues so prudence is sometimes called a moral virtue technically it's an intellectual virtue because it perfects the intellect you saw that coming but it's often classed with the moral virtues of justice fortitude and temperance because all of them taken together make up the cardinal virtues cardinal virtues so-called cardinal from the latin cardo yeah we're just getting in our last latin lessons today from the latin cardo which means hinge so these are the very hinges of the moral life through which you enter into beatitude okay so how is prudence in conversation with the moral virtues with justice with temperance with fortitude well aristotle has this little throwaway line well it's not a throwaway line it's an important thing but it's short it's pithy it's aphoristic uh he says as the man is so he sees check that out as the man is so he sees and this is something that's abundantly apparent from our experience so for instance if you are temperate and courageous and just then you will see reality well okay so like say you're toddling down the street let's say that you're going to a diner and you're looking forward to having like i don't know a diner dinner because you anticipate sundays you break up your lenten penances a little bit so that way you don't get just slogged down by the monotony of lent and so you are on your way let's say you have ten dollars in your pocket let's say that you also owe ten dollars to a close friend let's say that that close friend is also out front you know like out front of the diner okay and he's in heated conversation with the police officer and you overhear the police officer saying you you have to pay the 10 parking or we're gonna tow your vehicle okay so here you are you're really looking forward to this diner meal you've only got ten dollars you owe this guy ten dollars here he's being asked for ten dollars what do you do well if you're a temperate courageous and just person you'll be like oh here's my friend he needs ten dollars i own ten dollars let's give him ten dollars this is great and then maybe afterwards we can take the opportunity to like hang out a bit chat come back to my house make terrible peanut butter and jelly sandwiches it'll be a jamboree all right so because you are virtuous you see the situation virtuously and you comport yourself virtuously but if you are not virtuous let's say that you are intemperate you are cowardly and you are unjust okay what do you do then you're like yikes this guy might ask me for my 10 bones but i want to spend them on a stack of pancakes in fact i want to spend it on bottomless coffee and you know like whatever kind of crazy infused birthday cake batter ihop speciality that's currently on offer which will undoubtedly put me into a food coma for a week but i will regret zero percent so what you do is you like skirt around the guy you go into a back entry you like you know just plow through plate after plate after plate and then you see his car being towed you see him being thrown in prison you see his family being like sold off into wage slavery and you have no bones about it you're like great meal excellent meal okay so because you are you are a bad person you see that reality poorly okay so prudence that escalated gets its starting points it did yeah wage slavery you didn't see that coming okay prudence gets its starting points from the moral virtues okay so like you said prudence is about kind of working through the means in the situation you want to do like this that or the other thing but how do you go about it those are the questions that prudence is asking but it it requires you to be well formed in the moral life in order for you to even set about it well so it's this virtue which kind of orchestrates i don't know the integration of the human person so it's it's not like you know you're just working on one particular skill to be prudent is to have a knack for humanity to be prudent um you know is to kind of have a sense for the whole which is awesome um so yes father joseph anthony words of wisdom for those who are trying to live a life that is whole a life that is integrated maybe college students maybe our moms who listen to this podcast actually like half of the listens on this podcast are just the combined lessons from our 100 percent or it's our mouth right so like how does one go about beginning this work of of integration which which prudence itself stands at the head yeah i think the first thing the first kind of suggestion and advice i have with that is just simply to say love you mom i know you're listening and i love you uh let's just call for what it is uh no but um you're talking about that kind of beautiful kind of dynamic between the fact that like uh it's thrown around sometimes as a moral virtue and i think i even launched on it off the podcast saying it's a moral virtue but it really is this intellectual virtue and so we have to really kind of take time and concern about how we are forming that intellect uh you know what are what are the councils and how are we uh forming that intellect to be taught then how to perceive and and how to perceive the situations the circumstances that are happening through which we can judge and put our right reason into action so to not underestimate the intellectual formation that needs to take place right through which we can grow improvements so that we can actually have the intellectual tools um to then begin to act prudently and then acquire uh the virtue in these ways um so i think that the the first thing is to to really kind of focus on that intellectual side of it and that doesn't put you as like you know the brain in the vat or that like kind of brain in a jar of things but like it helps then to integrate that's the first step of the full integration of the person you know intellect uh informing the will and the will directing the passions this is what that's all about and to take the uh necessary steps to inform that intellect to uh instruct it in real ways then it gives you the right skill set through which you can discern the good in the situation and the means through which to achieve that boom all right well that's that's a good place to start let's pick up with that when we come back from our break um during our break what could you do you could get a cup of coffee you could hold your breath all right i think the break's about like 25 30 seconds long go ahead and try and hold your breath unless you're operating heavy machinery or have a child in your arms and we'll catch you on the other side on god's planning [Music] you are listening to godsplaining visit us at godsplaining.org to listen to our episodes shop our store and donate to our podcast all gifts go to improving the podcast and bringing the gospel to more listeners thanks for your support and welcome back to god's planning here we are i hope you did it successfully whether that was filling your cup of coffee or holding your breath whilst not operating heavy machinery or child i suppose i could have given a more exhaustive list of things that might be only dubiously done whilst holding one's breath but i trust you to it because you're prudent um also because i'm feeling silly and one does such things when he's finished i feel bad for those individuals that were operating heavy machinery while holding children because they just got a double tap on that break they're like oh my god what about a new that's true great bulldozer babies um that's what it's a new new tag okay so here we are we're talking about how prudence which is an intellectual virtue in one sense kind of a moral virtue in another sense right since it has this relationship with appetite um we said it's a cardinal virtue we get all kinds of kind of virtue qualifications or distinctions being trotted out but now we're getting into the the practical business because virtue perfects your practical reasons so where would we be if we did not give concrete uh advice of a practical nature right so how one can grow in one's virtuous life with prudence kind of at the head so father joseph anthony was talking about the intellectual side of things i'm going to go ahead and talk about the um yeah the appetitive side of things which is to say uh to talk about it from the perspective of the passions and of the will so i think one thing that's encouraging is that you get better at it okay one thing that is encouraging is that you get better at it so prudence is ordered to action so like conscience for instance is not so much order to action conscience is about saying like is this thing good or is this thing bad but it ends there it ends with that judgment whereas prudence goes beyond that not only does it say like you should or should not do this thing it says we're doing this thing and in so doing it commits you in your character to whatever it is and in being committed you become that type of person more and more so if you are the type of person who habitually i don't know uh what is something that is praiseworthy uh waits long hours in remote climbs so as to record video footage of strange animals for contribution to the discovery network's next documentary then you become like a bird spectator you like become that type of person because you do that type of thing all right so in doing the thing you become committed to it like at the level of your character okay so there's this this great kind of consolation to be taken in the fact that if you do not feel yourself to be especially prudent or competent in the making of decisions at this juncture or if you just find decision-making somewhat overwhelming at the time it's just you get better by doing the thing okay and this isn't just like a nike commercial i'm you know just gonna leave off with just do it you know because there's deliberation to be taken you have to make quality judgments you should take counsel from those who are you know older and wiser and who have suffered a wider like a wider experience of life and blah blah there's all types of things that go into it but prudence is just something that takes time um it just takes time and that's that's okay because it's like a very human virtue like father joseph anthony said it's very organic and part of it's taking time is this this kind of relationship that it has with the appetites so as your appetites mature so you can kind of rely upon yourself to think better and better about the matter at hand uh so like when you're six you order off a kid's menu you're like you know what's delicious chicken nuggets and then when you're nine you pull apart a mcdonald's chicken nugget and you realize that it's like barely reconstituted jeff jet puffed meat product and you're like maybe that wasn't the best idea you know it's good for like 12 minutes and then after that the quality seriously declines and then you move on from there to like i don't know something out of julia child's cookbook okay so your repetitive tastes mature all right and if you're living a virtuous life you can you can expect that your appetites will mature in the direction of the lord and as a result of which you'll begin to think clear and clear more and more clearly i think that's an adverb okay yeah you'll begin to think more and more clearly about life about your decisions and as a result which kind of like grow into it so if you feel bewildered that's okay everyone does there are two types of people in the world those who feel bewildered and those who still feel bewildered and don't admit to it never mind okay so that's by way of encouragement all right now father joseph anthony is going to lead us off we're going to talk a little bit about the vices that uh are opposed to prudence or that undermine prudence yeah uh the the first one that we want to like see as the complete opposite of prudence i think shouldn't be surprising to anybody is imprudence right and it's the inability or when a man deliberately uh does not take the appropriate counsel to inform his intellect so as to then act with right reason and so this imp prudence you know we can kind of think of a person who it manifests itself a lot in um kind of being self-sufficient like only taking counsel with oneself only uh relying on one's perspective of things it kind of manifests itself in this um just ultimate self-authority you know like i am the one who uh and you mentioned conscience a little bit and that's a really interesting like dynamic and maybe we could do a whole another episode on the difference between prudence and conscience and the relationship between those but when you know i have the authority then to judge what is right and only me and i judge what is right for me and you have no role in that there's no other voice in that and so the imprudent man is kind of a very very uh he's not an integrated man the imprinted man is a very kind of autonomous but isolated man and he is self-sufficient and only resign relying on oneself not taking the appropriate counsel not taking the appropriate steps to form one's conscience and to instruct the intellect through which he can employ right reason in action so that's the first one is like it it kind of sounds like a cop out say like well what's the opposite of prudence imprudence yeah no no crap really of course it is but to see that like it's actually rooted in this inability or this even refusal to uh take the appropriate counsel to instruct and inform your intellect through which then you can apply right reason to the situations and i think we see a lot of that in our present-day culture and this um really push for uh autonomy and self-sufficiency when people mature right you you move from childhood to adolescents and adolescents into adulthood that's the heart really of the tension is that the child is beginning to gain his own autonomy and rightly so but he the the child then has this tension against the authoritative parent and i think that when we look at the prudent man who has this kind of understanding of the role of authority and the role of authority is to instruct not just simply punish and i think we uh have this kind of anti-authoritarian bend to us you know basically because of original sin and blah blah there's all these other reasons to it but the zeity authoritarian in us uh pushes back against authority because we only see it as control and we only see it as punitive but really authority is to instruct and primarily when we look at prudence authority is to guide and instruct our intellect through which we a can right reason in action to see the good and to choose the correct means for it so the imprudent man is one who does not take the appropriate counsel and actually has zero respect for authority and constantly is pushing against it because he becomes his own autonomy he becomes his uh ultimate authority and it's his way or the highway so this is somebody that's not really open to a discussion that somebody is not really open to other people's opinions somebody who's not really open to being led by another in in that way yeah it's it's fascinating this draws out a feature of our human lives which is perennial and often unacknowledged namely that uh part of being mature part of being you know like whatever one would call it well adjusted holy uh well those are different things part of being holy is being dependent in the right way right being dependent upon god being dependent upon members of one's family being dependent upon one's friends things like that uh because part of being human is living a life in the body living a life in communion right whether it be in friendship in family and society in the church and that entails relationships that place demands uh reciprocal demands right so part of part of being prudent is is relying in in a healthy way and you you draw out this element of the law right so so we rely upon god not only for our being but for our instruction and the laws this kind of help which informs us but also grace we're wholly dependent upon grace to do anything worthwhile anything meritorious and so yeah it's this false notion which has us seek instead of a virtuous dependence rather an unvirtuous autonomy is really brought out for me by a book i read by aleister mcintyre called uh dependent rational animals which is bizarre he spends like a lot of time talking about dolphins but it was sweet uh the miami dolphins 62 undefeated miami dolphins would that it were right uh finkel and einhorn laces out um so so this like okay so next related i think i think it's related thought this brush okay should so practically i'm stumbling over my words but i feel this acutely and i want to share it um oftentimes when we troubleshoot our problems we feel ourselves to be the hero of our story we think that we're committing no errors and that we're surrounded by fools and enemies who commit boku to errors and sins right and so we run this kind of like martyr narrative like i was trying to do this awesome thing but everyone got in my way and was mean to me and now things are bad and i wish that they would be punished and i would be exalted on a pedestal okay the story of my life that disposition which you describe that that vice which you described that's it's borne out by that narrative so if we find ourselves kind of chafing at other self-descriptions be like all right it might be like a little bit like that but it also might be a little bit different that should that should cause us to question our own self-examination and just to be a little more okay a little more open perhaps to correction a little more open to god's indication and illumination and just to be humble about receiving the meaning of our lives rather than dictating the terms okay i'm done nope it's good i think it's all good all right hit us with all right the next one um i want to talk about then opposing vices to prudence is going to be negligence and this is um kind of that inability to take that final step with respect to prudence moving into action right so negligence like properly speaking is neglecting the good that one ought to do so the ability to recognize the good that um in your inability to move that into action then um neglects or there's a lack of goodness that exists now because of the inability to to move uh prudence into action move right reason into action so now you become negligent in that and so we've talked a lot about today and i think if there's basically one key takeaway is prudence why there's such an emphasis and prudence from the ancient world is because it does integrate the intellect and will and if either one of those right when we talk about imprints it is a inability to form the intellect well negligence and is the inability to kind of activate the will in uh putting right reason into action and because of your inability to do that because the inability in in action there is goodness which now is neglected there's goodness of which is no longer attained yeah i i heard like a kind of compact description of negligences could have should have didn't and i think that um one of the places in our lives where we encounter this the could have should have didn't is in common responsibilities um so like yeah i don't know in a house say you live in a family of four five six and say there's a light bulb that's out right maybe you have a system worked out as to who's gonna fix the light bulb but i suspect that every member of the family walks past that burnt out light bulb at least three or four times before anyone does anything about it because we kind of have this general disposition like someone else will which isn't always the best way to you know love others and god there's a guy in the community where i live named brother matthew marie who's awesome the french word for being like crafty or being handy is bricoleur he's trey bricoler so he's always fixing something up in the house and in part because he loves it but in part because he's just generous he's just like a very generous generous man so like today i was working on blah blah blah thus and such and just taking notes on my computer and i looked out the window and he's putting new flagstones on this path in our garden because the old ones were like a little bit wobbly like if it were up to me to fix those flagstones it would have been another decade i've been like dude wobble your little hearts out they're doing great are your shoes clean don't complain but he's like no this thing should be done well and should be done beautifully and i think that we do we do often you know fall subject to neglige negligence and common projects mind you we shouldn't swing the other direction be like i will do everything because i am the only responsible person here and the rest of you stink because then that's that's just as much of a pain to live with you just have a nicer house um so i think that you know avoiding negligence being prudent is informed by the sense that um we're real agents in the world right we can actually do something god gives us to be and to act and part of our being made to the image and likeness of god is being and acting to the utmost right so rather than looking to avoid responsibility it's often in the context of responsibility that we grow that we flourish right committed relationships often draw out of us things that would otherwise lay dormant in our souls until such time as we were evicted from our parents basements um so yeah it's uh it's uh it's awesome to witness it and those who are generous but we also rebuke ourselves for the times when we ourselves are negligent absolutely i think we got time for one more do you have one no i was just focusing on those two between the intellect and the will so do you got one uh that you can kick at me i um i don't know that i have like okay so like no i don't think i do um i mean saint thomas talks about these like kind of little vices opposed to prudence as you follow these different steps in a decision-making process but i think that we covered the highlights with those two big ticket items um so maybe send-offs final words any thoughts uh aspirations for the prudent growth of those who will listen to this episode yeah i i mean i think the send-off and i'm gonna um yeah i'm gonna do this in a very public way because i think when you do things in a public way you force people's hand in doing other things i think our next series should actually be on the gifts of the holy spirit uh and and whatnot so like we've done virtues we've done sacraments so i i think we've done back to basics let's let's take a gander at the gifts of the holy spirit and the gift of the holy spirit i think that connects with uh prudence is uh the gift of counsel and i think that when we can like turn to the holy spirit and uh have him pour out the the gift of counsel within us that helps to inform us it helps to allow us to have that right reason according to the authority outside of ourselves right the divine himself who created and it helps to uh conform us to reality as it exists so that we can make those judgments see according to right reason and then act in accord with that so um we are then um kind of directed through the gift of counsel by god himself the gift of the holy spirit through which we can employ right reason in action into our life um so i i think that's going to be kind of like my my final say is also uh to connect the the virtues to the gifts of the holy spirit but also to uh just make a claim for let's let's take a deeper look into the gifts of holy spirit in the future the second time around you said deeper look the first time around though you said gander so gander we shall um i'm actually okay so my final thought is this uh i'm actually writing a book about prudence right now to be published by our sunday visitor unless they reject it and then it'll be published by selfpublishbooks.com um favorite website i'm writing the last chapter right now i love this i'm writing the last chapter right now yes yes i was just going to say i love the self proclamation and like the humble brags here like i love that kind of stuff so keep it going dude you've got to can't stop won't stop never stop stopping okay um so the whole point of the last chapter is uh you've got it in you okay why well because god has more confidence in you than you do um i think that's like not often appreciated is that god wants you to be glorious but he wants you to do it in a way that often looks a lot like a dumpster um so if if god wanted you to attain to your end by one perfect movement whereby you affirmed his sovereignty in your life he would have made you an angel instead he made you a human being and he gave you a whole life to stumble your way to heaven um i listened to a lecture recently and um the way that the uh the speaker described our trajectory as heaven bound he says basically like we slip on a banana peel and then we just keep going up which i love okay so we exercise a real agency but it's an agency that's underwritten by grace it's underwritten by god's encouragement right by god's exhortation by god's accompaniment like especially like you said with the gift of counsel so when life proves overwhelming whether because there seem to be too many options or whether because you seem not to have enough say in the matter remember this you know god wills that your prudence be the instrument whereby you attained a sanctity in the life of grace so that's good news yeah um so with that we're going to round out the scoring but father joseph anthony has one final yeah oh man i love that final thing and i don't want to ah it's so good but that idea that like god trusts us more than we trust ourselves and he actually takes delight in us uh along the way and there's this i think deep human uh hunger and and c.s lewis talks about it this hunger human hunger for the divine accolades to hear god like rejoice and take delight in us and our life and our our our life here is aimed at at one point standing face to face with god in his presence and hearing him speak of his delight in us hearing him speak well done right there's a beautiful scene at the end of the magician's nephew by c.s lewis where uh diggory brings the apple back to aslan and he presents the apple to aslan he completes the mission he accomplishes what he was set out to do what he was asked to do and aslan's voice just roars just well done son of adam and all of narnia feels that and the earth trembles and shakes and throughout their generations and i think that ability as you were saying the fact that you can do it we have it within you and the fact that god does delight in us no matter what that journey looks no matter how tumultuous it is it is so that we can stand in front of him and he gives that kind of speaks into approval speaks into being his delight in us and that's what we hunger for boom so to you good and faithful servants good and faithful listeners um we're praying for you we ask that you pray for us as we persevere through the season of lent that god who is generous god who is provident will lavish upon us all the good gifts and graces that we need to be prudent in turn to render unto him a fitting sacrifice of our little humble broken silly often bizarre lives so things around the corner you've got yourself episodes to listen to but you already knew that because your 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