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to be great saints.</i> <i>Don't miss the opportunity!</i> (applause) Mother Angelica: (laughs) I couldn't swallow. Anyway, this is ice water. I don't know why I have to explain this every night, but it's not something to have in your mouth when that light goes on, I can tell you, because you can't swallow that fast. But anyway, we're here. We're here together. And I don't know about you but we in Alabama had a terrible storm. It wasn't even a tornado, was it? What was it? A what? Straight-line wind. What's that mean, huh? Just wind going straight ahead. You know why? Nobody knows why. That's a dumb question to ask. Only God, huh? Only God knows why, right? I never saw a camera this close. Is it supposed to be that way? It is? Okay, here I am, everybody. But you know, it was kind of funny in our place because we always think we're ready for anything. You feel that way sometimes, you're ready for anything? Well, all we heard was one yell that said, "Tornado!" Well, we didn't--we have 100,000 square feet in that house and nobody knew where to go, (group chuckles) nobody. So they're all running to me and I said, "Don't look at me. "I don't know where to go, either." So I said, "Okay, we'll go to the chapel. If He goes, we go with Him." (group chuckles) So we went in there and we started saying--I advise this very much. That wind was, oh, it was so strong, it ate out some of the mortar from the block. It just went, went right in one place. And then our bell tower has been leaking and--I won't give the name of the company who built it, but if you don't fix it, I'm going to. (audience laughs) I hope somebody in that company heard me tonight. But anyway, they had to take the tile off the roof so they could walk on it. So wherever they took the tile off, it leaked. In a hundred-mile wind and pouring, we're going around with these little buckets, you know, trying to catch the water here and there and the gift shop where we had all our supplies and everything, the whole, it was leaking through the, through the, the lights, everywhere. Anyway, I had many thoughts I never expressed. (group chuckles) Just wanted you to know that I had them but I never expressed them. I'm still thinking them, though. (laughs) I said, "There has to be a time even God loses his patience," you know. But anyway, I just wanted to share with you something that happened to me the other day which was so-- for me it was exciting, just for me. I don't think it affects anybody else. Because I was so excited, I wanted to share it with you. Is that okay? Well, if it isn't, I'm going to share it anyway. You know, I told you many times how we got to build this absolutely magnificent temple. And when we were in Bogotá, we wanted to tell all the people in South America that EWTN in a year's time would have a Spanish network going into South America and Spain and Italy and many other countries. So anyway, we were there and I was invited by our guest to see the Shrine of Divino Nino. And so he said to me, you know, you go up this hill and there is the original statue, the original statue. Well, when we went to this basilica, there was a huge courtyard, big enough for 5000 people and they have 20 some Masses a day over there. And so I saw this bust of a priest in the corner. And so, nosey that I am, I wanted to go over and see who it was. So I go, and it said, "Fr. John Rizzo," which was my father's name, and I said to myself, "Well, at least there was one decent John Rizzo in this world"--not a nice thought, but that's what I thought. So I said to Father, "Who is this priest?" He said, "He came from Italy." I said, "Oh, it figures. "You're going to tell me he came from Calabria next." "I don't know where he came from," he said, "but he was Italian." I said, "Okay." "And very simple." "Okay." He said, He had great devotion to the Child Jesus, and when he came from Italy there was nothing there, you know. The people very poor, and so he put two tables out. One table had the Divine Child on it and the other table said Mass. Well, the people came from everywhere, everywhere and they're hungry, hungry people. So he's getting a little bit scared, you know. So he talks to the Child Jesus out loud and this, all these people listening and he says, "Divino Nino, do You see these people? "They're hungry. "They're all hungry and if You don't give them something to eat, they're going to kill me and smash You," a typical Italian priest. (audience laughs) And so, all of a sudden out of nowhere come these cartons and carts of food. And the poor man is more petrified now than he was before and the people are going wild, you know. Well, now, every week that happens, every week. So now the people are beginning to bring the sick and they bring people on stretchers, they bring people that are blind and can't hear. I mean, it is a crowd of people coming, all sick. Now, the poor man is scared for sure because they expect him to do something about it. And so he goes to the Child Jesus again and he says, "Look, You see these people? "They're sick and if You don't heal them they're going to kill me and smash You." Now, I never talk that way to the Child Jesus. I haven't even thought of it, but he was a simple man that had a beautiful relationship with the Child Jesus. Well, all of a sudden, from way out at the end of the field comes a man yelling and screaming. He was crippled from birth and he's walking, he's running, he's doing everything. Well, other people are doing the same. Well, he doesn't know what to do. So he goes to his provincial and he says, "I want to build a church," but that isn't the word he used But I found that out later. I'm going to spoil my point if I say the whole thing right, okay. So they say, "No, we can't build a church. We don't have any money." He said, "But the people have talent." So, they let him build a small church. Now, Father's telling me all this, and I felt comfortable with this Fr. John Rizzo. And I thought, "Well, you know, he's a simple man. "He speaks to God in a simple way, and I would like him." So Father says, you know, "You want to go up and see the original statue?" It was just, oh it's about that big, that's all. And so I'm going there and the statue, oh, there must have been maybe as many people as here tonight and the statue's facing that way and I'm facing this way. I'm just looking--I am just looking at the statue sideways. All of a sudden, He turns and He's not a statue. He's a Child, and He looks at me and I never saw such beautiful eyes in my whole life--never will again, I guess. And so He looked at me and He said, "Build Me a Temple and I will help those who help you." Then all of a sudden, He turns and He's a statue again, and I thought my heart was beating 100 miles an hour. And I started to cry. And I thought, "What is a temple," you know? I've heard of Masonic temples, Jewish temples. I never heard of a Catholic temple. I wasn't certain, but I heard Him, and I didn't understand what He meant when He said, "I will help those who help you." I didn't understand that, either. So the sisters came up to me and they said, "What's the matter?" And I said, "Oh, nothing, nothing." So when I got home, I thought, "I've got to tell them. "Otherwise, because I won't be able to build a temple," you know. But I still never knew, and a couple of months later we were in Rome and coming out of the basilica I saw the word, "This temple was consecrated on a certain day." So I thought, "Aha, there is a temple." So now I'm back to where I was two weeks ago. Sister comes up to me and says, "You know, this woman sent you a book on the Divine Child Jesus." I said, "Oh, I must have 150, of them but they're not like that one. Okay." So I took it and that evening before going to bed I thought, "Well, I think I'll read it," because He's so cute. You know, you can't resist a little child like that. I open it up. Guess who's there, Fr. John Rizzo, and look at that--look at him. Well, I couldn't believe my eyes, you know. There he was, a big man, not too cheerful but it says, "Fr. John Rizzo, founder of the Divine Infant Jesus Parish." "Parish, no," I said. Well, I'm looking through the book and what does it say? "On December 25, 1937, the first rock for the Temple of the Child Jesus was blessed." And then it says here, "Father died before the big temple was built." And it says here--and my heart was beating another 100 miles an hour because he said "temple" to me. He didn't say "parish", He didn't say "church", He didn't say "oratory". He said, "temple". And so, I was so excited. And it says here that, "The Divine Infant Jesus Temple was dedicated in 1992." Three years later He tells me, "Build Me a temple." Well, you've got to be patient with me tonight. I've got asthma, bronchitis, a sinus headache and my nose is running, all on TV. So if you don't mind, there's nothing I can do about it. You know, we're hearing a lot today all the terrible things that are going to happen to the world this century--the big earthquake, the big, what do you call these earthquakes that are under the ground, what do they call them? Well, anyway, under New York City is a massive earthquake about to happen--not today or tomorrow, but before this century. You want me to do this, right? Okay, thank you. He's really a guard but he does this mostly. But I think we need to think of that, fault lines, thank you. There are big fault lines under New York. There are big fault lines in California. I'm not telling you to move. Where are you going to go? I'm only saying as I have said 100,000 times somewhere --that you need to get your soul ready. You know, I don't know why people are so afraid. Two weeks ago I talked about Hell. A lot of people live there now. Don't you think? Sure. All of us are living Purgatory. You know, if this is Heaven, Lord, save us all! (group chuckles) You know, we're in the wrong place. This is Purgatory. This is Purgatory, and there are many things happening. Somehow, we're in some kind of war. Nobody knows what. There are wars and rumors of war. Well, you say "it's been that way for centuries." True, but it was in the time of other people's centuries and other people's purification. There's a good book out called <i><u>Sent to Earth</u></i>. I'm not advertising-- but I guess I am. It's an excellent book. It explains why through the centuries--the Bronze Age and Rome, oh boy, you can see why the Lord took care of Rome. But see, what I don't understand is we're not afraid of sin, that's why people commit so much sin. You don't believe the consequences. See, you know what I think the Lord's doing? Nobody's paying attention to Our Lady over these wonderful apparitions we've had. Nobody's paying attention to Our Lord, who has been bleeding in many statues. Nobody's paying attention to Fatima, and now these many-- I don't say all of them were but some of these scientists, I guess you call them scientists, physicists and whatever else they are-- are saying to the people, "Look, it's not going to be the same anymore." Now, they have some kind of hot stuff going on up here, warming and all this stuff. See, you cannot abuse something constantly and not expect a reaction. Whether it's people or the earth, it's going to respond, it's going to respond. I just want everybody in this world that listens to this network to be ready, that's all. In India, oh gosh, that was a terrible earthquake. You say, "Well, it can't happen here." Don't kid yourself. You know, there was an earthquake at the Mississippi River. It went backwards for a week and the bells rang in Connecticut. How do you like that one? All I'm saying is, if you're Catholic, go to Confession. I know you don't want to stop your--what do they call it today? Your way of life? No, that isn't what they say. Whatever it is, you've got to stop. You know, a man was saying to us, he was atheist-- didn't believe in God, never did from when he was a kid. And he went to France with his, he's a professor, art class. So they all went to France and he got a terrible pain in his abdomen and his colon ruptured and he was dying and he died, he died. And before he died he was telling his wife that there's nothing else, you know, death is the end of everything. It's nothing but a black hole. Well, he dies and all of a sudden he feels himself up off the table and he's looking down on his body. And he's looking at his wife and she's crying and he's saying, "Hey, I'm okay, don't cry." Well, he's not, he's dead, deader than a doornail. And he doesn't understand why she doesn't hear him. And he'd say, "I'm alive." Then all of a sudden he hears two men speaking in the hallway, in English. Now, he's in France. So, and he heard the one man say, "He's not coming yet." Well now, he's inquisitive, see. So he goes outside and these are two--he thinks two men. He said they looked different, though. They had very elongated faces. And they told him to follow them. Immediately, there was a dense fog, and he said it was fog and the fog he never saw before. And the further on they walked, the denser the fog. Suddenly, these men begin to insult him terribly. They begin to use the worst kind of language. All of a sudden they're pushing him back and forth and then he said, they had like long fingers and they start pulling his skin off. But he said he didn't have any skin but he felt like he did. And suddenly, here's a man who didn't believe in God, wanted nothing to do with God and he says, "Oh, God!" and those two just went as far back as they could go. Now, he's scared, he's scared. And he said, "Jesus, save me." Immediately, the fog left and there he was. He saw Jesus and there were a couple of angels there, probably one was his own and they began to show him like a television screen his entire life, from when he was a baby all the way to being in France. And he said, "All I wanted to do is stay there. I didn't want to go back," and Jesus said to him, "You must go back. You're not ready." Well, he got back and they began to operate. He became a minister. (heavy sigh) There is a Hell. There is a Hell. I don't want any of you to go there. Your way of life may not be too good, but it's never too late. And some of you that are Catholic, who have that awesome opportunity of going to Confession. What a wonderful thing! And so I'm not going to, you know, preach Hell and fire, but I just want to remind you, remind you. They say, "Don't scare people." Do you see the movies that your kids watch? It would scare me. Do you see the sweaters they wear with these ugly, ugly beings? Do you see the games they play? And you're telling me Hell... Well, they've seen Hell. They just don't know what to call it. I've never seen such grotesque games in my life. These are children's games, children's cartoons. So don't, don't give me that thing. "Oh you scare me." I want to scare Hell out of you. That's what I want to do. That's my job, is to be a thorn in your side. I want you, every time you have an opportunity-- I didn't say temptation, I said opportunity--for some kind of sin, I want my face before you making you as miserable as possible. (group chuckles) I ask Our Lord to do that. That happened one day. This young girl was going to commit suicide and she was running. She was going to jump off a bridge or something. And suddenly she said she saw my face in front of her and she stopped dead and she changed her mind. I don't ask God for big things, just a lot of little things, like giving you strength and courage to carry your cross. We all have a cross. We all have a cross, all of us. In some fashion, carry it, don't bury it, don't drag it. All you old people get so discouraged. Hey, you got one foot in the grave. What's your problem? Where are you going? There's no place for you to go, up, up and down. You know, you and I are past this middle, middle age thing, you know. We're past that. When you find your face in the middle section of a senior, senior magazine, you know you've made it. (group chuckles) That's what I saw not too long ago, just my face right center face on a senior magazine. I said, "What am I doing in there?" I said, "Oh, I know what I'm doing in there." See, it doesn't matter how old you are. Young people die, old people die. You see, sometimes we die suddenly. We don't want to do that. But see, when you die, it's over. That's what's so final about it, isn't it? It's over and then you have to stand there for judgment. You're all by yourself. I know that. There's nobody there with me, nobody. I was by myself. So just think about that. Things are tough and they're getting tougher. All I want you to do, I hope you live 1000 years but if you die, I want you to die well. I don't want you to go the other place. I was going to take tonight the 20th Chapter of St. Matthew. And you know I felt sorry for the Lord the other day. First He appears to everybody and Our Lady's appearing, seemingly, to everybody and nobody's listening. They aren't listening. I was surprised and little hurt for the Lord because now He's using atheists and He's using professors and scientists to tell us that this world, this world we know in this century will not look the same. The glaciers are melting. I mean, we're going to have a whole new world. Oh, it's wonderful. I said, "Lord, I know I'm not going to live to be 178 (heavy sigh) but when I get to Heaven could I peek down and just see how it's going to look?" I mean, it has to be wonderful. When the Lord gets done purifying this whole wide world it's going to look so beautiful because it won't have sin on it anymore. And everybody will love each other because He promises here a new Heaven and a new earth. Wow! What's new about it? Well, it's not new now, I can tell you. It's getting old. It's, it isn't even what it used to be when I was a kid. My grandma never locked the doors of her house. Did your parents, all of you up in your years? You don't, did you ever lock your doors? Never! Never! Grandma's door was always open day and night. Dear God, you want to put a wall around your house now, see the world different. Oh, He's going to change it, oh wonderful. We'll have grass greener than you've ever seen it. You'll have beauty you've never seen before. There'll be peace everywhere. Your families will be one family again. There won't be all the things there are now. That's why I look forward to it. You say, "Mother, are you nuts? "You look forward to chastisement?" Yeah, yeah, I do because of the end result. I look forward to your kids having a happy time, of living in a home that's loving and understanding and a place that's safe. I look forward to that. I look forward to the Church being vibrant again and not so divided. Every time you got to Mass somewhere, it's different, like an electronic church, you know. Every time you go to Mass you get another shock. (group chuckles) I want it to be One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church where people of all faiths come to that fold. Oh, I look forward to that. Let's see what Our Dear Lord says here. This is about the vineyard. Did you know that? It says, "Now the Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner..." You all own land don't you? Everybody owns something. "...and he went out at daybreak to hire workers..." Well, that sounds pretty normal. Pretty much like we used to do when we built this place. "...and he made an agreement with the workers for one denarius for a whole day," not bad. For that day it wasn't bad. "Now, going on about the third hour," maybe 9:00 or something like that, "he sees some people standing there, no work and he said, "Now, you go in my vineyard, too." He said, "Okay, one denarii." "Then he goes the sixth hour and the ninth." That would be 3 or 4:00 in the afternoon, and they all go. He says, "I will give you a fair wage." Do you notice today nobody gets a fair wage? I had an employer say to me the other day, "You know, I like to hire people that like to work. "I pay well. "The first thing they ask is, 'How much vacation do I get?'" Oh, I said, "That's nothing. "I had a girl apply. She wanted to know how much debt we had." I said, "Oh, you really want to know?" She said, "Yes." I said, "Do you expect to pay it? (group chuckles) "Why are you so nosey if you don't want to do anything about it?" "Well, I just want to know what I'm entering into." I said, "Oh, anything else you want to know?" She said, "Well, I'd like to know if we have vacation." I said, "Vacation?" She said, "Yes." I said, "What is that?" She said, "Vacation--you don't know what vacation is?" I said, "Well, I don't think I do because I've never had one." I said, "I work for God. "I'm off on Sunday's but I don't know anything about vacations. "What would I do on a vacation?" She said, "Well, I wouldn't know." I said, "I don't either " I wouldn't know what to do on a vacation. And most people I see come home are dead tired. (group chuckles) I mean, you look haggard. You look tired. I don't know. I would just sit home and enjoy it. That would be a good vacation, I guess. So I don't understand, personally, I don't understand vacation because my day is the same every day. When I was younger, I was too poor. Now, that I'm older, I'm too old. So I don't have a problem with vacations. So then she wanted to know, after vacation, you know, did she go home for a visit? And I said, "Sweetheart, you don't have a vocation because all you do here is love Jesus in the Eucharist and we adore Him day and night, and you don't have a vocation." I don't know what happened to the poor girl because we're all in that mood, you know, of "What do I get out of it?" Oh, that's not too good. What do you put in it is what's important, not what you get out of it. We will have our reward or whatever we have up there. I wouldn't care if the Lord put me at the gate just watching everybody else have a good time. When we deal with God we have to love Him for Himself and you're going to learn something here tonight. "Now at the 11th hour He went out and found more men standing around." Oh boy, you're up there now. There's really not much left to a workday. He said, "Why have you been standing here idle all day?" They say, "Because no one hired us." He said, "Well, go in my vineyard." They work maybe two hours. "Now, the owner of the vineyard said to the bailiff, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages starting with the last arrival...'" two hours. Got it? Two miserable hours in the cool of the night, no sun, don't have to worry about lunch, two hours. Okay, "…ending with the first." Now, do you want to add insult to injury? Okay, the first were still working while the last were getting paid. How do you like that one? Are you beginning to get upset? No? Yeah, you should. "Now, when the first came they expected to get more." Got the same denarius. Now, they're beginning to think. "'Hey, they said," they grumbled. "'These men came last,'" oh boy, look here, "'and they only worked one hour...'" (chuckles) Oh boy, this is great, "'...and you treated them the same as us.'" Getting to you, huh? Well, "'And we have done a heavy day's work,'" here it comes, "'in all the heat.'" "And he said, 'My friend, I do you no injustice. did you not agree for one denarii?' "'Yes.' "'Then take your earnings and go home. "'If I choose to pay the last as much as I pay you, do I not have the right to do what I want? "'Or are you jealous of my generosity?'" Oh, you see. This reminds me of the woman who came to me one day-- I told you this, but we always get new viewers. And she did have a hard time with her husband. I mean, she did have one hard time. Well, he dies, but she was so upset. She said, "Do you know what that rat did to me?" I said, "No." I wasn't sure I wanted to know. (group chuckles) She said, "He wasn't even baptized when I married him and I went through hell." I said, "Okay." Well," she looked at me, she said, "On his deathbed..." oh, she's getting hot, "...he was baptized, he got all the Sacraments, he went to Confession and he died!" I said, "Well, aren't you happy?" "No, I'm not happy! "The rat went straight to Heaven." I said, "Well, aren't you happy with that?" "No. "I want him to suffer a little bit." Gosh. You know, if he was that bad you'd think you'd be happy. Well, this is what Our Lord's talking about. That's what He's talking about. There are many people that steal Heaven,like the great thief, the thief on the cross. Didn't he steal Heaven? Oh, he suffered though. Don't you kid yourself. The one went to Hell, the other went to Heaven. "This day," Our Lord said, "you shall be with Me in Paradise." Do you know how long Peter had to wait before he died? And then he died upside down on a cross and here's this thief, you know, a thief But he admitted he was guilty. He deserved what he got and he accepted it. And all he said was, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your Kingdom." And what did Our Lord say, the Merciful Jesus. He says, "This day you shall be with Me in Paradise." Now, don't you want to go to Confession? Don't you want to change your life? Otherwise, you're going to be like these people. You're taking a chance, taking a chance. You did take too many risks, you know. And like that atheist I was talking to you about, you may not be the one chosen to come back. And what did Our Lord say? "The last shall be first and the first last." What does all that mean? Well, it means that if we pray for the hardest sinner, the hardest sinner, if you pray, keep praying for that person in your life that you want converted, don't stop. He may come back the last minute, the last second, the last instant he can come back and then be with God forever. And we have a call. Hello? Female Caller #1: Hello, Mother. This is Sandra from San Diego. Mother: Oh, wonderful. What's your question? Female Caller #1: Hi, we love you here in California, Mother. Mother Angelica: Thank you. Female Caller #1: My question is, is Jesus more merciful than He is just or is He equally both? Mother Angelica: God is Infinitely Merciful and Infinitely Just. It is an act of God's Mercy that He is Just. I want to repeat that. It is an act of God's Mercy that He is Just. Can you imagine walking around with all these people from Hell all day long? Hell is the justice of God but He doesn't put anybody in Hell. That person goes to Hell on his own because he cannot stand God. You know, I asked a priest not too long ago, a friend of mine, I said, "Have you ever been present, you know, at a deathbed that you really feel this person went to Hell? He said, "Only one." And I said, "But what happened?" He said, "I came in and I wanted him to go to Confession, he wouldn't. "He cursed God and he was in the act of dying and I put the crucifix to his lips and he took it and he threw it against the wall, and he said, "I don't want to be with God forever." Well, I would suppose, it would be hard to judge that, too, but everybody, anybody, anybody that goes to Hell is not placed there by God. They go because they cannot stand the holiness of God. If you live a filthy life, you could die being happy with the filth. That's the way it is. If God were to chastise the world at this point-- now all of you think hard-- if He were to chastise the world tomorrow and make it a thousand times better, would you say that's a good thing? Wouldn't you? I have a, the company who built the temple and the monastery is still there. He's a wonderful man, and he did something sweet the other day and I said to him, "May you live a thousand years." And he looked at me and he said, "No, not the way the world is today. "If it gets worse in 10 or 20 more years, I don't want to stay here." And I was surprised because (heavy sigh) I guess I didn't expect it but I knew what he meant. If you eat--smoke cigarettes, you're going to get lung cancer. There's no doubt about it. It takes time but you're going to get it. If you drink a pint of liquor or whiskey or wine a day, hey, your liver's not going to take it. It's not made to be pickled. You're going to get it. You can't blame God. It's just going to happen, that's all. We, as human being made to the image and likeness of God that have memory, imagination, intellect and will, we have to take the consequences of our mistakes and our sins. You've got to take that. You're in some kind of dream world if you don't think you are. So to answer your question, I go to California by way of New York--yes, there is God's justice and mercy-- both are infinite. I wish we all understood that. We'd be a different world. We have another call. Hello? Male Caller #1: Hello. Mother: Where are you from? Male Caller #1: I'm from Illinois. My name is Charles. Mother: Okay, Charles, what's your question? Male Caller #1: I've been reading the lives of some great saints--St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, St. Theresa of Avila. Mother: Yeah. Male Caller #1: And I find that the ladder I feel that I should be on on my pilgrimage to Heaven, I'm not even on it yet. Mother Angelica: You're not what yet? What is he? Woman: Not on the ladder on the pilgrimage to Heaven? Mother Angelica: Oh, well if you're living, you are and you are living, definitely. If you're striving, if you're reading the Lives of the Saints, at least, you're making an effort but, you see, you're reading the lives of mystical saints. Why don't you got to Mother Cabrini, Don Bosco, who-- well, every saint is different, the Little Flower of Jesus. Read those saints that are more akin to your way of life. They worked, they ate, they slept, they drank, they had their big crosses, their little crosses. The difference between the saints and ourselves is that Jesus and Mary were a part of their daily life. We seem to have two lives-- one wrapped around ourselves in sin and everything else; the other, well, on Sundays we're pretty good. So I think that you have to understand, holiness is for everybody. Now, did I answer that question? No. I did. Okay, is there another one? There is not. Okay. So you know, we're all in this together. The world is slowly going down and we have to lift it up. Talk to Jesus, just talk to Him like you would talk to each other or talk, talk to me. You can talk. He loves for you to talk to Him. He loves for you to tell Him everything, little things, good things, happy things. Every time I get a new pair of shoes, especially now since I can walk without braces, I go show Him. I know He knows. He's God. He knows everything. He wants me to tell Him. He wants me to thank Him. I go there and I say, "Thank You, Jesus, for the new shoes. "Maybe You could work on them to stretch them a little bit. They feel kind of tight." Anyway, bless Him. Isn't that what He meant when He said, "Unless you become as little children you shall not enter the Kingdom?" You need to do that, just a child. I was looking up at the water pouring in the other morning, night, it was night. Well, it looked night. It was only about 3:30. (heavy sigh) I said, "Lord, do You remember it took five years to build this thing? Five years and the first storm, real storm comes and it looks like somebody's going to take a bath." I mean, I never saw so much water coming down. And remember, all you people who put it together, all you people who have the tile still off. It's not a threat, hey, it's not a threat. I just want to keep dry, if you don't mind. Well, I gotta go. I love you and God loves you infinitely. 'Bye now. (applause) ♪ ♪
