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(bell tolling)

(man coughing)

(bell tolling)

♪ O God, come to my assistance ♪

♪ O Lord, make haste to help me ♪

♪ Glory to the father and to the Son ♪

♪ And to the Holy Spirit ♪

♪ As it was in the beginning ♪

♪ Is now and ever shall be ♪

♪ World without end, amen ♪

(cows mooing)

(cows mooing)

- [Priest] Okay, Sylvia take the ring.

Place it on Joseph's finger.

- [Sylvia] Sorry about that, Burt.

You need to put that on.

It's hot in here.

- [Priest] Okay, now hold his hand and repeat after me,

I Sylvia Gibbons. - I Sylvia Gibbons.

- [Priest] with this ring.

- With this ring.

- [Priest] take thee.

- Take thee.

- [Priest] Joseph Gibbons.

- Joseph Gibbons.

- [Priest] To be my wedded husband.

- To be my wedded husband.

(burner loudly firing)

- [Priest] To have and to hold.

- To have and to hold.

- [Priest] From this day forth.

- From this day forth.

- [Priest] For better, for worse.

- For better, for worse.

- [Priest] For richer, for poorer.

- For richer, for poorer.

- [Priest] In sickness and in health.

- In sickness and in health.

- [Priest] to love and to cherish.

- To love and to cherish.

- [Priest] 'Til death do us part.

- 'Til death do us part.

- For as much as Joseph and Sylvia

have consented together in holy wedlock,

having witnessed the same before God and these witnesses,

having declared their vows for each other,

once again having declared their love for each other,

I do by virtue of the authority vested in me

by the laws of the state of Colorado,

pronounce you Sylvia and you Joseph,

to be husband and wife.

Folks, may your days be filled with joy,

love for each other,

and be blessed by the happiness of this moment.

Now you're married. (burner loudly firing)

- All right.

- [Priest] Congratulations.

- Congratulations. - Thank you.

- Alright.

(ski blades rustling)

(man groaning)

(woman exclaiming) (laughing)

- Dammit!

(ski blades rustling)

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- [PA Announcer] At Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club.

- [Man] Good job Hank!

- Gregory Buchheister coming around the corner

and to the finish line now, Gregory Buchheister!

Gregory Buchheister's card is 1:35:20.

Chad Fleischer is coming through the finishing line now.

Chad Fleischer! - 1:35:18.

- Chad's time is 1:35:18,

1:35:18 for Chad Fleischer.

And here comes Reggie Crist.

Reggie Crist, through the finish line!

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At a time of 1:34:86.

Here comes Stephon Chottinger,

With a time of 1:33:27 for Stephon Chottinger.

(voice muffles) is now heading down our national champion

in the GS, (voice muffles)

giving his best in the super G here.

And he has taken second place with a time of 1:31:37.

♪ All by myself ♪

♪ I've got this burning, burning, yearning ♪

♪ Feelin' inside me ♪

♪ Ooh, deep inside me ♪

♪ And it hurts so bad ♪

♪ You came into my heart ♪

♪ So tenderly ♪

♪ With a burning love ♪

♪ That stings like a bee ♪

♪ Now that I surrender ♪

♪ So helplessly ♪

♪ You now wanna leave ♪

♪ Ooh, you wanna leave me ♪

♪ Ooh, baby, baby ♪

♪ Where did our love go? ♪

(cars softly rustling)

- The trend today is toward more and more

men having cosmetic surgery-- - Too late.

- And it's not just cosmetic surgery, it's uh,

you know men are engaging in use of skin care products

and hair care products

and in fact cosmetics and so on.

So it's just a, I think we're just...

scratching the surface here

when it comes to surgery of appearance.

And in fact when we started to think about it,

this field really started

when Narcissus saw his reflection in the water,

and ever since then man has been hooked on appearance,

and has used methods of either adornment

or physical alteration to change appearance,

to gain self identity and self-esteem.

All of these procedures that I'm talking about

are done in men just as well as in women.

It used to be that 10% of our patient population were men

and now it's approaching 30% and it continues to increase.

So we can take a long nose and make it shorter,

or we can take a wide nose

and make it a little thinner,

or we can take a nose that has excess projection,

it extends away from the person's face a little too much,

and we can then get it closer to the face,

or we can take a nose that has a high bridge

and lower the bridge,

or we take a nose that has a very subtle high bridge

and this is what we call a subtle rhinoplasty,

or we can take a nose like this, a little girl who--

- [Man] What a honker! (laughing)

- Who has inherited--

(man softly talks off mic)

Yeah. (laughs)

So this girl inherited her father's ethnic nose...

So, it's a very gratifying type of you know, result.

We can take noses that have been injured

and are wide and crooked

and make them more narrow and straightened.

Alright, or you see a person like this

who not only has a receding chin

but also has very little neckline

and so by building up the chin

you not only improve the chin line but

also the jaw line and the neck line.

Very common in non-Caucasians,

blacks have extremely receding chins,

and so we're able to build up that chin

and you know just to get a little better profile line.

Now, we see again in non-Caucasians, Orientals.

We're able to build up the chin from for better harmony

and facial balance,

and in this case we also used what's called

a mid-facial implant,

where you see that as a result of the mid facial implant

the center portion of the face is advanced as well.

Commonly in Orientals you see that significant

depression just below the cheekbone on the left

and the filler with a mid facial implant on the right.

Cheek bones, cheek bones are extremely important

and we view, you show me a beautiful woman,

I'll show you beautiful cheekbones.

I'm convinced that there is an innate desire in man

to improve his appearance,

and the thing is that especially

like in our society there are philosophical

and religious and social mores

that prevent people from doing it, you know?

We're taught that it's bad to do,

to change God's will, you know,

and we hear things like that little girl

that inherited her father's nose,

the Jewish grandmother has her guilt-tripped,

and she says, you know, "Let the kid alone,

"she'll grow into her nose," and so on.

By the time that kid grows into that nose

she'll grow out of her body.

(laughing)

Or we see-- (people talk off mic)

How often have we heard, you know,

grow old gracefully?

Well I'm here to tell you

that the way to grow old gracefully is

to have cosmetic surgery.

(cars softly rustling)

(ski lift softly humming)

(ski lift humming)

- [Woman] I probably only have one more run anyway.

- [Second Woman] Well, how many runs have you taken?

- [Woman] (softly mumbles) Oh, roughly an hour.

(ski lift humming)

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(chattering off mic)

(talks off mic)

(ski blades rustling)

- [Man] She's sitting down.

(ski blades rustling) (chattering off mic)

(woman shrieks)

- [Man] Oh, my God.

- [Woman] You okay?

(ski blades rustling)

(softly chattering off mic) (ski blades rustling)

- Yeah, he's got a little,

- Cut? - Yeah, it's about an inch.

- Have you called from the phone up there?

- Well he may do that.

You're the first person I've seen.

Thought you might have a radio or something.

- I can call them right here. - Just tell him he's up there.

- Does he want help?

He's over by-- - He'll need it I think.

He'll at least need a butterfly

but probably a stitch.

- Okay. - Thanks.

- Sure. (radio static hisses)

(softly mumbles) 3601 with the Aspen Mountain Patrol.

- [Dispatcher] Go ahead Rick.

- Have a gentleman who wants to be checked out at Bonnie's.

He got a pole poked in his eye,

and I'm a little bit of blood.

- [Dispatcher] Is he in the restaurant?

- He's in the restaurant, his friend just skied down

to me and asked me to call you.

- [Dispatcher] Okay, we've got someone on the way.

- Thank you, clear.

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(laughing)

(woman hooting)

(drums loudly beating) (chattering and cheering)

(loudly cheering)

- [Man On Mic] Yeah, big round of applause.

These guys did it for nothing

and they're worth several hundred million.

It's amazing.

(laughing) (upbeat rock music)

♪ Well, shake it up baby now ♪

♪ Shake it up baby ♪

♪ Twist and shout ♪

♪ Twist and shout ♪

♪ Come on, come on, come, come on baby now ♪

♪ Come on baby ♪

♪ Come on and work it on out ♪

♪ Work it on out ♪

♪ Well, work it on out, honey ♪

♪ Work it on out ♪

♪ You know you look so good ♪

♪ Look so good ♪

♪ You know you got me goin' now ♪

♪ Got me goin' ♪

♪ Just like I know you would ♪

♪ Like I knew you would ♪

♪ Well, shake it up baby now ♪

♪ Shake it up baby ♪

♪ Twist and shout ♪ (chattering off mic)

- [Man] (mumbling) This way.

- You open that dink up a little bit?

(man responds off mic)

- [Man] Should we head up there yet?

- [Jackie] No.

- Yeah.

- [Man] You're getting closer though.

(loudly clattering)

Watch it.

- It must be in the (mumbles) try this valve.

- [Jackie] Is that better?

(lightly clattering)

- Kinks, somewhere screwed up, Don?

- [Don] Yeah?

- That tank pipin', or?

(water rustling)

Hey, Jackie?

- [Jackie] Yeah?

- Call 'em and tell 'em to turn on the air.

- [Jackie] Yeah.

- And turn off the water.

(man coughs)

(loudly rustling)

You got the WD-40?

(man softly talks off mic)

(engine loudly rumbling)

Hey, don?

- [Don] Yeah?

- When you're drilling, (loudly rustling)

apply the light pressure so that your bit is

right in the middle of your hole.

You know, it's not bending up,

there's no weight on the machine, and then also,

if it starts to slow down and jam,

back off a little on your pressure.

You'll just keep jerking it.

(drill loudly rumbling)

(shoes loudly clattering)

(cart loudly rumbling)

- [Man] You wanna switch tracks?

- [Man] Nope.

(loudly clattering)

(loudly rumbling and rustling)

(wheels loudly clattering) (loudly rumbling)

(softly laughing) (wheels clattering)

(loudly clattering)

(softly laughing) (ski blades rustling)

(chattering off mic) (ski blades rustling)

(light rock music)

(bulldozer rustling) (light rock music)

(bulldozers rustling)

- I just want to talk for a minute

about what you're looking at.

While this is a shape,

what's really important is this shape, the negative area.

So, I want to see people drawing negative areas

and filling them with color

because while this thing is brown, or whatever it is,

this area right here consists of a lot

of stuff behind it okay?

And this birdcage is fabulous.

Matisse, if he were here, my God,

he couldn't afford one of these.

And you only cook a bird--

No, nevermind, sorry, Gauguin,

no offense. (laughing)

So what happens here,

is that I want you to draw the negative area of the cage.

I want you to draw this stuff

because you can't see Gauguin

where the bars are,

you can only see him where they aren't.

So I want you to draw that part, you know,

that's where he exists is in the negative area,

you can hear me.

(woman softly talks off mic) Yeah.

He's worried about the cooking instructions.

Paella, it's paella, it doesn't include bird meat.

So back here is--

(chuckles)

Back here is a wonderful array of shadows,

I wanna see those.

Up here is a tree, I don't want to see people

drawing leaves and trees, it's bullshit.

I want to see you draw them

as Matisse would cut them out of paper

he doesn't have time to cut each leaf,

he would cut them as a shape of green, okay, right?

And these shadows are a single shape.

If you want to noodle them that's fine.

If your personality makes you want

to draw them really fine, that's great.

But really basically,

they're an area this big that's different color

than the background, okay?

So we got all this wonderful stuff.

I don't want anybody to paint for a while.

Somebody's starting to draw.

I just want you to look.

You're all getting excited about drawing this.

Just stare and think about what you're really looking at.

If you have questions, we'll go has some.

- [Woman] I don't understand-- (loudly chattering)

- Yeah, no, okay, here's the deal.

I want everybody to include in their painting

everything from here,

to here.

- [Man] To the window?

- Yes.

- [Man] The big window,

everything. - Everything that you see,

now look, if you want to draw the upstairs bedroom,

and that makes a statement, throw it in.

What I'm telling you are no rules.

But I'd like you to at least include

this field of vision okay?

And now, you're saying it's a lot of work,

"I got all these things to do," bullshit.

It's you could do this in a single line

or you could do it in 20 lines,

or you could do it in 50 colors.

I want everybody to use every color in the box

don't leave out a color.

- Where is your beginning point?

Your focal point? - Okay, think of your paper

as being a window, you're looking

through a window at this scene, okay?

Find something that you've decided,

if you wanna do this,

if you wanna draw diagonal lines through the paper,

and here's the center, and you've decided

that her nose is gonna be the center,

or his nose, her nose,

then do that, then build out from there.

Build, build shapes though, don't draw,

I don't want to see a lot of outlining, I hate that.

So, let's just do this,

let's draw this wonderful shape right here,

that describes this.

It's gonna be hard for you to do that but try it,

it's really fun, it's really fun.

And then draw this shape

that goes up to here, draw the windows.

If you wanna draw the Warhols, draw the Warhols

'cause you all see them, don't you?

Right?

- [Woman] No, I don't.

- It's wonderful, you see outside on the mountain,

you see them, you wanna draw that, draw that.

There are no limits, it's where you place your focus, okay?

And I'm gonna come around and be a little critical.

I'm gonna kinda make you push yourselves a little bit,

none of you, there's only a couple professional artists here

and I want to see you extend yourself.

I think it's wonderful what's happening,

and the moons are incredible.

What are you doing?

Are you just like a bag woman or something?

Get on the thing, let's go,

get to work. (laughs) - I just do the dishes here

when this is over.

- [Instructor] Just don't be predictable,

I don't wanna see you outline stuff

'cause that's not what stuff is about.

There is no outline on stuff.

Stuff is what's inside the outline, okay?

These are the most wonderful crayons.

They'll do anything you want,

it's like driving a fast car.

Victoria is the only blonde I know

that acts like she has palsy

with her hand, I mean, this thing is moving so fast,

she could have done the Sistine Chapel

in 24 hours, no problem.

- [Victoria] Oh, come on, now. (man quickly talks off mic)

- [Instructor] Victoria, I know--

- [Victoria] I'd like to see it, yeah.

- Darling, okay?

That's great!

This is great, here's, may I, may I?

Just for a second, here's a man

who is drawing negative area.

This is what I'm talking about.

- [Woman] Oh!

- This is great because this accentuates

something that he's not really seeing

this is really trying to decide what

what what's happening out there in terms of the space.

It's not a literal translation,

we don't need a camera, okay?

I didn't mean all that shit, it's a mediocre painting.

- Yeah, it is, well.

(laughing)

- The whole point is look at these people,

you can't drag some of them away from these canvases,

and they've never done this, it's great,

look at the intensity. - I know.

- Jesus Christ, try and go up there

and ask 'em what time it is, fuck.

(softly talks off mic) - You know, Matisse was

in his 50s when he used to-- - Well, I know.

- In the hospital, they brought him oil paints and canvases.

- [Woman] I gotta show you guys--

- He had appendicitis-- - Oh, yeah!

No, he had, no, no, Matisse died of a bad operation

on his gut, he didn't have appendicitis.

- No, but when he started painting.

- The Buddha ran off. - Oh, yeah, oh yeah.

- They brought him paintings so he wouldn't be bored

in the hospital-- - Oh, yeah, and he had a stick

with a crayon-- - He had never painted

in his whole life. - He did all of his cutouts

on the ceiling of his bedroom. - Really?

(quickly mumbles)

- I know him well. - My cat's name is--

Ooh, look at this. - Ooh, la la!

- But look at the Buddhist! - Oh, God.

- The Buddhist! - Oh, God, oh God, oh, God!

- You put the bird in the tree,

you put the Buddhist over in the tree.

- [Woman] Oh, God, there he is!

- That's what it's all about,

that's exactly what it's all about.

- [Man] Oh, man,

oh, man, oh, man. - That's what it's all about.

- [Woman] It's taking it and doing it your way.

- I mean, yeah, exactly, there are no rules.

Once again, there are no rules.

- [Man] Wow.

- So, you didn't break any boundaries here,

you're dressed in funny boots, but that doesn't count.

(loudly laughing)

Isn't it fun?

- [Man] We got a stapler?

I need a stapler.

- [Woman] No one's got a stapler, buddy.

- [Woman] I'll find something--

- [Man] Quiet, all of you people are killing the mood.

- [Woman] Does anybody need paper, that's it?

- [Instructor] This is a passionate painting.

- Isn't it?

- [Instructor] This is a Spanish--

- Spanish.

- [Instructor] Fucking painting, it really is.

- Fucking Spanish. (loudly laughing)

- There's so much emotion this painting,

it's unbelievable. - I love dirty things.

- You are passionate, you are trouble, lady.

- [Woman] I know.

- Yeah it's great, it's very powerful, in fact you...

Are the exact opposite,

most people who were timid here,

you just jumped in with both feet.

It's like, I don't care if I get mud on my boots,

what the hell?

So, this is nice, this is very nice.

I can't tell you if you were thinking

about the negative area or the positive area.

It's like so goddamn--

(mimics explosion)

It's like Guernica, right?

It's this guy.

1940, yeah.

- [Man] It's like a matador, almost.

- Yeah.

- [Man] Isn't it?

I mean, the red, the black-- - Yeah, Guernica.

It's there's a passion here that, yeah.

- [Man] Exactly, great.

- [Instructor] That's fun, that's a fun painting.

(diners chattering and laughing)

- Who was German, you or your father?

- My father was.

- [Woman] I thought you said you were quite excited.

- Your father? - We went there

when Katherine was working-- - Right, I--

- I thought you were there and I might've met you.

- Well, no, I was there,

but only on my summer holidays.

- His father-- - My father was--

- You were just a school boy--

- Yes. - And I was a grown-up woman?

- Well, I was left school,

I was 17. - That's not the question.

- I was 17. - Well, I was 23, so too bad.

- Exactly, so there-- - The question was--

- It's barely enough to keep us apart.

- Well, I stayed with all these strange ladies

in Wehrenberg, and we'd come in, chat, flatter,

I don't remember who they all were.

They took a poll the night,

I was the only virgin in the ETO.

(loudly laughs) I really was!

They took a poll, which of the defendants,

if they had to sleep with one,

who they would sleep with. - Who did they say?

- The German was Goering.

- He won everything, he did!

He was the hero of the trial.

- Yeah, I guess so.

- Total, totally they have--

- He did in, who was our prosecutor?

- Jackson. - Jackson, he did in Jackson

until I was there, yes. - Totally, did you see that?

- Mm-hm! - Really, oh, you are lucky.

- I was lucky.

- 'Cause I was only there for Schacht's trial,

who was an economist, he was very dull--

- I was there for Goering.

- But that was a dramatic moment.

(crosstalk drowns out woman)

My dad, I always rather wonder whether my father was,

'cause he adjourned it, in the middle,

I mean, Jackson was destroyed

by Goering, wasn't he? - Yes, he was,

he was destroyed that day. - Yeah.

- But then, Maxwell Fyfe destroyed jury.

- I wasn't there, I guess, for that.

- Oh you weren't, well, the next day--

- I was there for two days (softly mumbles)

- The next day, Maxwell Fyfe,

who was the head of our prosecution,

destroyed Goering because Americans aren't very good

at cross-examination. - They're too nice.

- Well, that's true, and you don't do it here.

- Or too dumb, I don't know which.

- Well, they don't really do it.

I don't think it comes into the legal process.

And he had stepped down from the Supreme Court, didn't he?

- Yes, yeah.

- [Man] How fascinating.

(bulldozer softly rustling)

(bulldozer softly beeping)

(bulldozer softly rustling)

(cars softly rustling)

- Okay, we're back here.

(people softly chattering) (cars softly rustling)

(cars softly rustling)

- And I represent a unique and cost-effective organization,

called LightHawk, the wings of conservation.

What we do is we bring decision makers,

legislative decision makers,

and media people over endangered areas,

we show them this perspective,

this unique perspective from the air.

This is something that's quite unusual

and what it actually does is it gives the land a voice.

If you've ever flown in a small aircraft over wild lands,

you're startled and thrilled by what you're seeing,

and you are truly discouraged,

and terribly disappointed at some of the ravages

that are happening to our mother earth.

LightHawk, as I said, has flown

for so many organizations

and we literally give the land a voice,

and if you can hear that land speak,

it's asking for protection.

If you actually see what's going on with your own eyes,

you are moved to action

and that's what LightHawk's all about.

(light folk rock)

♪ You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain ♪

♪ Too much love drives a girl insane ♪

♪ You broke my will, oh ooh what a thrill ♪

♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪

♪ I had to laugh cause I thought it was funny. ♪

♪ You came along and you moved me honey ♪

♪ Come on baby, you're driving me crazy ♪

♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪

♪ Kiss me, baby, ow ♪

♪ No one makes me feels so good ♪

♪ I need my baby ♪

♪ 'Cause I love you like a lover should ♪

♪ You're fine, so kind ♪

♪ I'ma tell the world that your mine mine mine mine ♪

♪ Chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs ♪

♪ I'm real nervous but it sure is fun ♪

♪ Come on baby, you're drivin' me crazy ♪

♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪

(upbeat rock music)

♪ Kiss me baby, ow ♪

♪ It feels good, good ♪

♪ Hold me, baby ♪

♪ I want to love you like a lover should ♪

♪ You're fine, so kind ♪

♪ I can tell the world that you're mine mine mine mine ♪

♪ Chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs ♪

♪ I'm real nervous 'cause it sure is fun ♪

♪ Come on baby, you drive me crazy ♪

♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪

(upbeat rock music)

♪ Kiss me, baby, oh yeah ♪

♪ Come and make me feel so good ♪

♪ Hold me, baby ♪

♪ I gotta love you like a lover should ♪

♪ You're fine, so kind ♪

♪ I can tell the world that you're mine mine mine mine ♪

♪ Chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs ♪

♪ I'm real nervous but it sure is fun ♪

♪ Come on, baby, you're drivin' me crazy ♪

♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪

♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪

♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪

(cheers and applause)

- We'll fast on Tuesdays, we go to (softly talks off mic)

(bulldozer softly rustling)

(softly talking off mic)

(snow crunching)

Spence, let's go over and look out over the valley.

It's warm enough.

Hunter?

50 to the cabin for you-- (talking off mic)

Fact, it was 49, wanna go to the cabin?

- Yeah, let's go back to the cabin.

- Okay.

- I could probably use a drink.

- [Man In Purple] Okay.

Good time. - A good morning.

- [Man In Purple] Yeah, good.

- Yeah, a good morning.

- [Man In Purple] A great morning.

- What's our time?

- You were 49.5. - That's a good time.

(snow crunching)

(dog loudly barking)

Come on. - Yeah!

(dog loudly barks)

- Come on, you dumb dog.

(dog loudly barking)

(ski blades rustling)

(talking off mic)

(ski blades rustling)

- "Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him.

"Tell us, they asked, does our law allow a man

"to divorce his wife?

"Jesus answered with a question.

"What law did Moses give you?

"Their answer was Moses gave permission

"for a man to write a divorce notice

"and send his wife away.

"Jesus said to them,

"Moses wrote this law for you

"because you are so hard to teach.

"But in the beginning, at the time of creation,

"God made them male and female as the scripture says

"and for this reason, a man will leave his father and mother

"and unite with his wife.

"And the two will become one

"so they are no longer two, but one.

"Man must not separate them what God has joined together.

"When they went back into the house,

"the disciples asked Jesus about this matter.

"He said to them, a man who divorces his wife

"and marries another woman commits adultery

"against his wife,

"in the same way a woman who divorces her husband

"and marries another man commits adultery.

The first question is that the Pharisees are asking,

asking Jesus in the temple, obviously trying to trip him up

and to make a pronouncement about divorce.

So, any thoughts?

- Marriage is God ordained,

he made us two as one,

and it's up to us then to work our relationship.

If we believe in God and what he tells us,

then we try to work those things out.

It's a commitment that we make when we get married,

and he's kind of telling us isn't it

that we have to continue that commitment,

and so much you see in these days is just people

drifting off their different ways.

- Maybe all marriages are not...

Are not ordained by God, how do we work that out?

How do we figure that one out?

In other words do we make choices

that are necessarily not have the laying on

of hands of the Almighty?

- I think that too many of us were to get married

for the wrong reasons.

And I think just what he said,

that if it is ordained by God,

becomes a serious thing,

and of course we do have a commitment

to uphold in that marriage,

and do something to keep it together.

But if we just get married because...

Though physically, we are attracted to her, or him,

I think that that might be the wrong reason to get married.

I'm not sure I know how I feel about divorce.

I know how I feel about divorce,

but I don't know how you should feel about divorce, yeah.

- Frankly, as somebody who has been divorced,

one of the problems is that law is now,

now makes divorce easy.

So, one of the parties...

Can decide that they want a divorce,

and the other party could do nothing about it,

that was my situation.

And if that happens, what can you do?

You can say I struggled I think divorce is a failure.

I've been willing to say that to anybody.

I think it's a failure in one's life.

But...

In my case,

apart from, I was married for 34 years,

You'd think in that time,

one's partner would know something about--

(laughing)

- [Man] You weren't difficult to live with either.

(laughing)

- Not at all.

(loudly laughing)

- [Man] I think at that point

that any good Christian becomes a wife beater.

(loudly laughing)

- But it's easy for a partner to get out.

I question is whether that's really wise for society.

- We didn't just fall into a pit when we got married.

We, I was believing God for a wife,

I was counseling with my pastor,

and I was living with the Melvilles at the time,

and they knew my heart and I believed this woman

who believed it was God's will.

We believed that it was ordained in heaven

just like us talking about here,

and now we're in the midst of something

that isn't honored according to this chapter.

But then we have to look at the overall perspective

of God's love, God's forgiveness,

life after death et cetera.

I don't have all the answers

but maybe I can share some insights into it

because I'm in the midst of it right now.

I think that God has the ideal,

and that there is the realistic to deal with,

the daily living and like Dick said,

with the way the laws are,

if one decides they want out,

there's nothing you can do,

even if you don't sign the papers.

They will get out and if you don't get an attorney

to help you salvage part of the assets,

whether they be children or things,

you could lose everything,

and it ain't fun, and for those of you guys

that are still married

if you have to work 24 hours a day

on your relationship, change your job,

and go get the class, read books,

have tapes, go for counseling,

it is easier than going through a divorce.

And you guys that have been through it know exactly

what I'm talking about.

- Many times, and very serious,

and very dangerous relationships to people,

I guess you could say I counseled them to sin.

To divorce.

I don't want to do that, I don't like to do that.

I think there, and I think it is sin to divorce.

And I think we have to be honest for that to say

that we've missed the goal.

But in some situations,

let's see how we force people

into really bad situations

that you must stay there no matter what

to be faithful to that.

When a man leaves his wife and has an affair

with another woman and decides to live with that woman,

that's a tough situation, that's hard.

And so, we're to say you're just to hang in there

when this person says, "I don't love you anymore

"and I don't intend to live with you,

"and I don't tend to continue my life with you."

That's a tough situation

when you got two little kids in the family

and those two little kids are saying,

"Somebody's got to love me."

- [Man] Amen.

- And so it's not as not as black and white,

and I think I wouldn't say that it's not a sin to divorce

but I think there are worse sins.

- There's nothing more irrational

than two people who wanna get married.

(laughing)

I mean you could talk to him

about all the good sense in the world,

you might as well just forget it

because it doesn't does work.

Marriage preparation, I often thought is a waste of time.

You have to make an attempt at it, but it doesn't work.

Arranged marriages...

I'm going to go through one now with a priest in our diocese

who is getting married in Uganda,

and he's going back and it's all arranged.

And so, we're going to Uganda for him.

Now, you talk about arranged marriages

if other people may know more about you

than you think you know about yourself and each other.

- Interesting. - You know?

And the yenta, you know,

of who could who is the matchmaker,

sometimes can have more insight

into bringing two people together.

But at the same time,

when people decide to get married,

then I say that they say suddenly,

"Oh maybe we ought to ask God to bless this."

It's sort of an afterthought.

And then, God is sort of trotted in,

and then God's trotted out...

(coughing drowns out speaker)

And so, the dimension of this marriage and this life

often is on some other basis other than

what we're talking about here in this in the scripture.

- I was married for 20 years, I think of it as a success.

It was a very successful marriage in many, many ways.

But until I was married the second time,

I didn't realize that you could be really happy

in the relationship.

- And I've seen lots of marriages

where the two people were trying to be such good Christians,

and make this marriage work

that they've destroyed both themselves

and products of their marriage.

I've seen that end in death of one

or both of the individuals, I have seen it in...

Children that were scarred for life, deeply scarred,

deeper than they would have been by a divorce.

And I've seen people that were deeply religious get

into this situation,

and you know that those people are more tortured

than the casual person and...

By Jesus' word and in God's eyes,

maybe they're the greater sinners.

So, we have to be awful careful.

The other thing is one thing that we've all heard,

if we worked with something like this is,

"That's not the person I married."

People do change.

(dogs softly barking)

- [Guide] What we're gonna do is

go out along the trail,

walk out through the sanctuary some,

maybe look at the snow and do a few things like that.

You need to remember now the trail is pretty narrow

so we can't all be first, okay?

- [Child] Okie dokie.

- So let's just get in the line and also,

it's really hard to push and shove on snowshoes

'cause everybody's gonna fall over.

- [Child] I would this so.

- I would think so.

(softly chattering off mic) (snow crunching)

(ducks quacking)

- [Guide] Which ones are the males

and which ones are the females?

- The males are the ones with all the colors on them,

and the females are just brown and they're light.

- Yeah.

- [Guide] And why do the males have all the color

when the females are sort of drab?

- I don't know, to attract them, I guess.

- [Girl] To look cute.

- [Guide] No. (chuckles)

(ducks quacking) You're not.

- [Boy] But the males, the males are (mumbles off mic)

- [Guide] Think about it for a second.

What do the females do, what do they do

in the spring? - That's what I said.

They mate. - Lay eggs.

- They mate, and then they lay eggs,

and then what do they do with the eggs?

- Sit on 'em. - They sit on 'em.

So, if you had a really brightly colored head like a male,

what do you think that would say to raccoons,

and foxes, and stuff? - Stay away.

- No. - They would kill 'em.

- Yeah, they'd probably attract 'em, don't you think?

(child softly mumbles off mic)

Yeah, exactly it's camouflage, so those female ducks--

- (softly mumbles) Is sleeping.

- They are, they stick their heads

over their shoulder to sleep.

So those female ducks are camouflaged.

- I know. - So that they can hide

their babies and hide their eggs.

(children softly chatter off mic)

Look over on the other side of the lake.

- Yeah, there's birds. - Canadian geese.

- That's right, those are Canada geese.

And can you tell the difference

between the males and the females with the Canada geese?

- No. - No.

- No. - No, you can't,

no, you can't, they look almost,

they look exactly alike, actually.

Around the turn of the century,

say early 1900s, in 1910, 1920,

these birds were almost extinct.

Who can explain to whoever doesn't know

what extinct means?

Yeah?

- I'm almost dead, there's no more of them almost.

- That's right. - Only a couple.

- What were you, is that what you were gonna say?

- Yeah. - Yeah,

there were only a few left and now,

through conservation through breeding them in captivity

and letting them go, there's several thousand left.

(ducks quacking)

So, it's sort of a lesson there in conservation.

(ducks and geese quacking)

(cars softly rustling)

(people softly chattering off mic)

(blow dryer loudly buzzing)

(soft tranquil music)

(lightly clatters)

(soft tranquil music)

(cars softly rustling)

(plane softly rumbling)

(cars softly rustling)

- Once they come here, they get all their needs together.

They start the new American life,

they forget the old Mexican way,

and they just, you know,

some of them will provide some help,

some help to their relatives, and family.

But if they don't know them,

they will not care for them.

And if they already have their job and their security,

they will not care for anybody else, unfortunately.

- One thing I'd like to mention as far as making it,

I don't think I can think of more

than about one Hispanic around this area

that owns a house around here.

I don't know if there is any,

but I know like one family in Carbondale

that owns a house, all the rest of the people

that I know all live in trailers.

So, if they have it so made,

why don't they even have a house?

I mean, because like myself,

I've lived here for 13 years and I still don't have a house.

I'd love to be able to have a house,

and you know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to.

So you know, if we have so many,

then why are we in this temporary housing?

I mean, it's really temporary 'cause at anytime,

the tenant could kick you out,

and close the trailer park, and then you're on the street.

- Sure, I think that's a problem that is open for everybody,

Anglos as well as Hispanics.

- You have to remember about

where these people's coming from.

Some of them, they didn't even have shoes

when they were born.

Some of them, they don't have education.

You know better than anybody,

they come to ESL and they don't know how to read or write.

I mean, if they get a truck, they already got it made.

They got wheels they can go back to Mexico

and sell the truck, and they can come back here,

and they can make more.

Just coming up here,

they kind of have it made.

When people that has come up here

and then they go back down there,

everybody looks at them like, "Wow!"

You know, "Where you been?

"Now, you're different," you know?

And it's not true, we know it's not true.

They're not different than anybody else.

But just the accomplishment

of reaching to primordial needs,

the individual becomes like self confident of himself.

That like they are someone, you know?

Like they have something, and like you say,

nobody owns a house but they all live in trailers.

- I would like to say that,

doesn't matter we came from a foreign country.

If we really want to success here,

we don't forget our nationality or anything.

I don't, and I won't, ever.

I try to mix my...

Education with the Anglo education

because for us, we need to make adjustments

to both and try to live with theirs up and downs.

We cannot go so far to one or the other one.

(quickly mumbles)

But I will never forget where I come from and who I am.

No matter what.

- [Man In Light Blue] We lose one or the other.

- You don't lose it. - No, no, no,

we don't lose it for ourselves,

we lose it to the eyes of the other people.

Either you become two gringo or you're too Latino.

- [Man In Dark Blue] You can be in the middle.

- That's the point.

Trying to be in the middle, and it's really hard, really--

- [Man In Dark Blue] It is hard, it is really hard.

- I are interact everyday,

five days a week with all Americans.

- [Man In Dark Blue] I do too.

- I go to school, you know, then I come home,

and I'm Chilean.

And then when I ever have the chance

to deal with Hispanics, I am Chilean, you know?

And I try to show them how I feel coming from Chile,

and when I'm in school, I still do the same

but I do it in English.

Some people, they'll resent the fact that I can do it.

They think I overwhelm them,

because that's my nature,

and that's our Latino nature.

- Sometimes, what the interaction between, let's say,

Anglos and Mexicans, or Latinos, whatever, Hispanics,

I think you know skin color

and hair color makes a difference.

I mean that you look like an Anglo, so people can--

- [Man In Light Blue] I am an Anglo,

of course. - They relate to you--

(laughing)

They can relate to you more 'cause they see you

and they go, "Wow, he's Chilean," or whatever,

but you look Anglo, basically.

And if there's a person that's more like myself,

darker, darker hair and stuff,

somehow that kind of cuts it off

and then there's not quite as much trust and interaction,

right there, just because of the mustache,

you know, the stereotype.

- One of the things you mainly gain from this Anglo society,

this American society here, is conscience.

It's a conscience level towards the individual

and towards your surroundings.

And how to care for things,

care for the neighbor, care for the traffic laws,

and care for...

Care for the environment,

know all these things that they're happening right now,

and it's a little bit wilder down south of the border.

You don't have that many laws,

and everything's better paid off,

and you can't pay it off easier.

Here, there's no bribes,

and everything's a little bit more

let's make it a real thing.

Let's not make it...

Fun and business, you know?

South the border is fun and business,

here it's business or fun one or the other.

But if you have fun and business together, it will not work.

You have to give up, you have to give up something

if you want to to evolve and become a better individual.

(cars softly rustling)

(ski lifts softly humming)

(softly laughing and chattering)

(ski lifts softly humming)

(ski blades softly rustling)

(people softly chattering) (ski blades softly rustling)

(water softly crashing)

(muffled soft music) (people softly chattering)

- [Man] Sorry.

- [Man] No problem.

(people softly chattering)

- Lift up.

(people softly chattering) (muffled TV voices chattering)

(machines softly humming)

(people softly chattering) (water softly splashing)

- (softly mumbles) The other slide

and right to the door, okay?

(light folk music)

Whoa, whoa. - I'm so funny.

(light folk music)

(upbeat dance music)

(softly clattering)

(soft muffled opera music) (people softly chattering)

(people softly chattering)

(soft muffled opera music) (people softly chattering)

- Nicely done, Kayla. (soft muffled opera music)

(car softly rustling)

(birds softly chirping)

(dog softly barking)

- [Man With Mic] We are at the Eagles,

but it's Willard and Mary's 40th.

I don't know how in the world--

- Know her that well. - She put up with him

for 40 years but I've known Willard a long time

and I don't know how in world she ever put up

with him for 40 years.

So it looks like the kind of a togetherness deal,

doesn't it?

One of 'em better try it.

(light upbeat country music) ♪ You better not try ♪

♪ To stand in my way 'cause I'm walkin' out the door ♪

♪ Take this job and shove it ♪ (people softly chattering)

♪ I ain't working here no more ♪ (people softly chattering)

♪ Well that foreman, he's a regular dog ♪

♪ The line boss, he's a fool ♪

- [Woman] John Lorne, or Lorne John, or--

♪ Got a brand new flattop haircut ♪

Patty ordered it from--

- [Man With Mic] Okay, get ready,

they're passing down the happy juice.

(light upbeat country music) ♪ One of these days ♪

♪ I'm gonna' blow my top ♪

Champagne comin' up.

(people chattering)

♪ Lord I can't wait to see their faces ♪

♪ When I get the nerve to say ♪

This man down here in the red coat,

he don't get no champagne, though,

he just gets blown silly.

- [Woman] Yeah, a lot of us do.

(laughing)

♪ My woman done left and took all the reasons ♪

♪ I was workin' for ♪

♪ You better not try to stand in my way ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm walkin' out the door ♪

♪ Take this job and shove it ♪

♪ I ain't workin' here no more ♪

♪ Take this job and shove it ♪ (man talking off mic)

(light upbeat country music)

(laughing)

- [Man] Don't slow him down, in other words.

(loudly laughing)

- Alright, well, I'm gonna get started.

As the eldest,

I see it as my duty.

Besides, I had everybody had an arm lock on me.

I want to propose a toast to these two

but before I do I have to,

there's something that's always bothered me

about this whole thing.

This is their 40th anniversary, I'm 42 years old.

(loudly laughing)

I'm a teacher of math, and...

(loudly laughing)

- [Man With Mic] Matthew's up, ladies and gentlemen.

- That's just a joke, just a joke,

trust me, I'm only 38.

(laughing) - [Woman] Only?

- And only, forever and ever, anyway,

I would like to thank you all for showing.

These two very, very special people mean a lot

to not just myself, my family, but to all of you

and to the whole town of Aspen for many, many years.

They're not living in town right now, but who cares?

The whole western slope is going to become sort of

Klapper infiltrated anyway so,

(laughing) it's just a matter of time.

- [Man] That's a warning.

- You can tell by looking at all these babies everywhere.

(loudly laughing)

I would like to congratulate the both of you first

for making it through 40 years,

I don't have a clue how you did it.

We weren't the greatest group of guys to raise,

not the easiest by any means. - Amen. (laughs)

- Except for me, I was always a gem.

(laughing)

But you have meant a lot to all of us individually

and to the town of Aspen and to each of us out there

whomever and for whatever reasons,

and I wanna thank you and I want to offer up my sincere love

for both of you, of course, and more importantly than that,

the love that we all share with you and have for you.

- Help yourself.

- And I hope you go another 40 or so years,

just 'cause you ought to, I don't know,

I guess that's a good reason.

Anyway, Happy Anniversary to Mom and Pop--

- [Together] Happy Anniversary!

- Hooray! - Thank you.

- Dad, let's hear how you go.

(crosstalk drowns out speakers)

- Now, before they get a chance to talk,

I want to have all the members of the family stand up

and say something if you so choose.

We'll start with the youngest and go up

to the more mature and respected.

(laughing)

- You've been the best people that I've ever known my--

- [Man] Young life?

- 20 some odd years.

(laughing)

I'm not gonna say how long because I'll tell ya.

- 26, 27, 28?

- To you,

to my life, to our lives.

I love you, we all love you, thank you.

- Love you Mom and Dad. - Yeah.

Cheers.

- So, I guess I was gonna relate a little story

to all of you, most of you,

this might fit into your lives too.

We're sitting around the dinner table one night,

all 87 of us, plus,

probably three or four friends,

Mom always cooked for a big bunch

'cause you never know who's gonna show up.

- [Woman] Right.

- And we were talking about our root,

and Mom goes, "Well, I think I'm a little Italian,

"and mostly Indian."

(laughing)

Dad looked across the table and goes, "Indian?

"Indian alright, a whop-a-ho."

(loudly laughing)

So, I--

- [Man] Part Northern Italian.

- Yeah, yeah. (laughing)

so I thought I'd just share that with you,

that we are part Indian.

(loudly laughing) If anybody really wondered,

we're not just Italian, and German, and a little Irish.

A little Indian, right, Mom?

- [Mom] Yeah, we are. (laughing)

- [Woman] Happy Anniversary.

- Happy Anniversary, and I'd like to wish you guys all

a Happy Anniversary from my family,

Tracy, Trevor and Pattie,

say, "Happy Anniversary."

(loudly laughing)

(woman talking off mic) - Here you go, Tracy.

- Yeah, Tracey almost has teeth now, so.

- [Man] And from the far left corner of the room.

- Growing up with this family,

my mother and I were very close,

we were best friends for a long time.

And it took my father and I a lot of years

to become best friends,

and I was very happy when we finally became best friends.

And I hope that my daughter and my wife become best friends

with this family too, sooner or later.

And thank you very much, and I love you both

(applause)

- [Mom] I'll drink to that, Charlie.

- [Man] And now from our extended family.

(laughing)

John do you have anything you'd like to say?

Okay, now this is our extended family.

Real impressed to see you down here.

- One of the reasons why I'm here is

they had a really open house and I think I'm one

of the really fortunate ones to have come into their family

and I feel like I'm part of their family

and I think they are also part of my family,

and its really special.

I want to say I love you, and (mumbles)

(loudly laughing) (applause)

- I love you two, and I love you.

- [Woman] You're beautiful.

- And you're, you're

(softly mumbles off mic) (loudly laughing)

- [Man] Alright, good boy!

- [Woman] Oh, that as beautiful!

- I love everybody, especially Mary, and Willard,

and the kids are just like my own and I'm gonna drink to it.

(loudly laughing)

- But anyway, like I said,

they speak to my family and friends do,

and it did come to my house for--

(child softly mumbling) - [Woman] I see it'll be okay.

- Quite often and enjoyed us, I hope.

But I also have a family that we've enjoyed

over the number of years that we've been with here

and that's the fire department.

And needless to say I have a number

of them here with me today,

and it's very, very gratifying to see them come around

and say thanks again.

And it's very, very appreciated from not only myself,

but my family, it's been really great.

Thank you very much. - I'll drink to that.

(loudly laughing) (applause)

- More champagne down here.

- Here's to all good people,

in this world and the next,

I drink to you, as told, tonight good fellows that protect.

It isn't the man who takes your hand

(quickly mumbles) you know,

or it isn't the man who slaps your back

as long as the high ball flow,

but the man that speaks a kindly word

when the world is running wrong,

a man that gripped your hand like hell

and tells you life goes on.

Well, if you know a sucker lies

so bold and he knows it too,

there's plenty of time when the man that lies

is the only friend that's true.

So, rave and rant, you proved your will

in the evils of wine and gin,

but somehow the real true thing we feel leaks out

as the wine seeps in.

(laughing)

A fool's a fool, or a cat's a cat,

whatever God meant him to be,

but a man who's a man won't forget he's a man

when he's out on the (quickly mumbles)

So drink to your health and your heart, my friends,

to mark to (quickly mumbles)

Here's to good people all over the world and their health,

may God bless everyone.

(cheers and applause)

- [Woman] I'll drink to that.

(loudly laughing)

- Alright you ready? - You ready?

- Everybody, one, two, three.

(helium squeaking)

♪ Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary ♪

♪ Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary ♪

♪ Happy, happy, happy, Happy Anniversary ♪

(loudly laughing) - Oh my God!

(laughing drowns out speaker)

(softly chattering)

- [Artist] Most of them, Joanne said most of them sold

before I even arrived.

- [Man] That's wild.

- [Artist] And she said she could've sold

a dozen Coke machines,

and my phone booth over there,

she said someone just called her a week ago,

they wanted to buy that, and she had sent them photographs,

and she said, "You're too late."

I just can't believe it.

- [Man] Well, that's great.

- [Artist] It's amazing.

- It's the type of thing that would go very well here.

I think people like to do something

in their homes or their second homes

that are conversation grabbers, or--

- And well, they're comfortable, they're fun.

If Monet can paint haystacks and water lilies,

and Andy Warhol can paint tomato soup cans--

- Sure. (chuckles) - Then what's wrong

with a fire hose telephone booth?

- Nothing at all, I think it's great.

- And people now are beginning to read all my labels,

I have messages on (softly mumbles)

and so they're not so sterile.

- Right. - They're all personalized.

So, it's just been phenomenal, I can't believe it.

- Great, you'll have to send more out.

- Well, they told me they expect the show to sell out.

I'm very grateful for that.

- [Man] Well, congratulations.

- [Artist] Thank you.

- [Man] It's been a pleasure meeting you.

- Nice to meet you.

(people softly chattering) (camera clicking)

The curve of the Machine elongated them.

But if you walked up to it, that's what you would see

and that's what I'm after.

I'll make sure that you see--

- Realism. - Right,

right, right. - As much as you possibly can.

Even the reflections.

- Yeah, everything has to be legitimate,

I mean authentic. - Right.

- Or you're not gonna believe it.

If I just did a white front

with the red and white and blue lettering

you would not believe. - Right.

I'm gonna take a couple shots.

- [Artist] You want me over here or over there?

- [Photographer] Scoot up just a little bit there.

- [Woman] Aren't you (softly mumbles) little sister?

- [Second Woman] Big sister, yep.

(people chattering)

- You realize I'm not really accustomed to this.

This is a little embarrassing.

- It's totally painless.

(camera clicks)

(people softly chattering)

- I did like everybody else, you know,

when you get into fine arts,

you do the abstracts and you do the,

splashing paint around and you think it's art.

And then I found out it wasn't very good.

And so, I went back to do what I do best

and that's realism.

And I started to--

- You had almost started with--

- What I had started with. - Good.

- And I could see a changing into the field of art.

I could see people getting away

from this Abstract Expressionism,

and like with the coming of when Reagan was elected

and the family became important again

and politics got conservative,

and the art got conservative, art mirrors the times.

And so...

I just began to do what I always had done best

and I painted a series of paintings

of my little community where I live,

I have 26 paintings of my community.

(water softly crashing)

(geese softly cawing)

(dog softly barks)

(truck rustling)

(birds softly chirping)

(cars softly rustling)

(light rock music)

♪ Want some whiskey in your water ♪

♪ Sugar in your tea ♪

♪ What's all these crazy questions you're askin' me ♪

♪ This is the craziest party that could ever be ♪

♪ Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't wanna see ♪

♪ Mama told me not to come ♪

♪ Mama told me not to come ♪

♪ That ain't the way to have fun, no ♪

(light rock music) (people softly chattering)

♪ Open up your window, let some air into this room ♪

♪ I think I'm almost chokin' from the smell of stale perfume ♪

♪ And that cigarette you're smokin' ♪

♪ 'Bout to scare me half to death ♪

♪ Open up the window, sucker, let me catch my breath ♪

♪ Mama told me not to come ♪

♪ Mama told me not to come ♪

♪ That ain't the way to have fun, son ♪

♪ That ain't the way to have fun, son, she said ♪

(light rock music) (people softly chattering)

♪ The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door ♪

♪ I'm lookin' at my girlfriend ♪

♪ She's passed out on the floor ♪

♪ I seen so many things I ain't never seen before ♪

(loudly chimes)

- Basically, the course is saying

that we're surrounded by love,

and we're surrounded by...

By God, and then we have blocks

to our experiencing that and the course,

the whole course is reason

and what it wants to do is

it wants to get rid of these blocks

to our experiencing love's presence in our life.

And the blocks are basically our ego.

So, what the course is doing is it's teaching us

about our ego and how to transcend our ego,

and how to somehow see past it.

- There are only two emotions in the world

which is love and fear.

And whatever emotions you may see,

if it's not love it boils down to fear ultimately.

So, if you can recognize that and let go of fear,

and know that ultimately there's nothing to fear,

then all that's remaining is love.

And if you feel love strongly enough in you,

then you express it and it comes from within you.

There's another place in the course

where they talk about the ego projects

so we tend to project anything we don't like about ourselves

onto the people around us, and the spirit extends.

So, if you're aware of that, of the spirit within you,

and you can let go of fear,

then that love extends outwards.

- I think that by accepting differences,

you're making them real and there's a point in at least...

My spiritual path and what the course is trying

to get me to do is to realize

that there are no differences,

and that somehow there's a oneness that surrounds us,

and the differences are something

that we've created somehow.

It's kind of like a bad dream.

- [Woman In White] Well, there's physical differences

but they're in spiritual differences

and I think what the course is trying

to get us to do is see the spiritual, not the physical.

- [Woman In Purple] So, all our spirits are all the same?

- [Woman In Green] What?

- [Woman In Purple] All our spirits are all the same?

- [Woman In Green] We're joined in spirit, we're joined--

- Yeah, that I can understand, but they're all the same,

it's all one.

- [Woman In Green] We're all parts of great spirit.

- Right, we're all different parts.

- [Woman In Green] We're like holograms.

- We're all the same parts, or we're all different parts?

- [Woman In Green] Like holograms, we're all fragments,

but we're also part of the whole.

- [Woman In Purple] We all fit together

but we're all separate things.

- Like the ocean, I just read that--

- [Man] No, I don't quite--

- [Woman] Don't say separate.

(laughing) - Think that's the way I feel.

- [Woman] Okay, (laughs) no, I'm just kidding.

I didn't mean to sound like that.

- The understanding I have of the course is that

there's a Father, which is God, who created us

and there's a Son who we all are, we all are the Son.

So within each one of us,

we contain the whole,

the Son, the Christ,

is in me totally, and also within you totally

because it's exactly the same thing.

So, we're not all part of one great big,

we all share a oneness that makes us one somehow,

at a level of spirit.

- Like the ocean, there are waves.

I just read this, that there are waves

and that's part of the ocean.

But a wave can't be if it's not connected to the ocean.

- [Woman In Purple] The ocean is made

of time. - Water, oh time.

(laughing)

- I'm sorry. (laughing)

- It's like meditation, do you feel that kind of oneness?

When you're meditating, it doesn't matter to you

the differences of people around you.

- [Woman In Purple] Right.

- That's irrelevant, you experience this oneness of being.

- I think it's a very pessimistic story,

Felicite, she had a boyfriend in the beginning

and he he double-dealt her and then he ran off.

He wanted to save his skin, not have to go in the army

and left her in the lurch,

and then she was taken up by this, by the man.

Then she she fell in love with a man

and so their two children follow,

and Virginie, Virginie died,

and that was a great loss to her.

And then her nephew, she became very fond of her nephew,

and she lost him, and I think it's very pessimistic.

She really didn't have much of life

other than going to mass every morning,

and doing the laundry, and taking care of everybody,

and I thought it's very pessimistic.

- Jim?

- I think it's an optimistic story.

- [Facilitator] Jean?

- I agree that it was an optimistic story.

If you just consider the things that happen to this person,

they were very sad things.

But she took it all in stride,

and when one bad thing happened to her,

she looked in another direction and found a good thing.

When love was denied her because of the death

of her nephew and Virginie,

she even eventually loved a parrot.

When the parrot died, she loved the stuffed parrot.

She had a simple heart, and she also had a simple mind,

but she did find satisfactions in her life

and in that sense, it was an optimistic story.

- [Facilitator] Lola, then Chris.

- Well, I think what makes it such a wonderful story

is that it was both pessimistic and optimistic

because on the one hand,

what a lot of people would think was very narrow-minded,

and I don't really think, as Lola does,

that it's simplistic.

I think faith can be,

even faith in symbols, can be...

Had by people of extreme brilliance and intelligence.

There are other people who don't have that faith.

On the one hand, you can look at it as a very narrow life.

But on the other hand, you can think how wonderful,

how wonderful that this woman had this

and when I finished that story I wanted to cry.

- [Man And Woman Together] Oh.

(laughing) - I really wanted to cry.

I mean I was choked up by the wonderment

of the way he told that story and the way he could move you

by somebody who doesn't have that kind of faith,

and I think that was what was so brilliant about Flaubert.

- [Facilitator] Martin?

- Well, when I got through reading it, I felt very depressed

that there are probably a lot of people in the world

that live at this thoughtless level.

She went from day to day,

she observed religious ceremony,

but she didn't have a philosophical concept in her head

as to what it meant.

And she has no thought of the meaning of life,

the fact that there are probably many people

like this in the world left me very depressed

that there they are to be taken advantage of,

and this is what government after government has done,

is take advantage-- (loudly laughing)

Of these stupid people.

- [Facilitator] I feel like you're done.

- Yeah, I'm done.

- [Facilitator] Now, Ruth had something.

- Yeah, Flaubert's art is that he is showing

in this very distilled short story the human comedy,

and it's all there.

Felicite is the character that's most described

in this set of stories about The Simple Heart,

but I mean, who else in this story had a happy life?

I mean, who would, Madame Aubain?

The so-called accountant who's responsible...

Whoring and thieving, I mean, you know,

and then committed suicide, I mean who is an exemplary

or admirable character in this story,

or who could you say who...

Is there such a thing as a pessimistic or an optimistic?

I think you wind up saying what is a good life?

And I guess you have to agree with Chris,

at the end of the life, she had a good life.

- A lowly worm... (chuckling)

lives a very happy life if he's in a lot of leaf mold.

(laughing)

But which is much more satisfactory?

I mean human beings with their aspirations

and with their sensitivities, and their...

Thinking of things,

it seems to me that that is a more worthwhile life

than merely living like a worm

that gets stepped on, stepped on,

stepped on, and stepped on, and dies lonely in bed.

And this, I don't know how really to put it in words,

but that's the best I can do. (chuckles)

- Martin, I would say,

that you have imposed your value judgment

and what you think is a very valuable life,

the life of a single individual that it's...

There are other measures other than

a sophisticated kind of 21st,

almost 21st century kind of person that you are,

on the life of what this woman was,

she was a simple woman,

and her life was miraculous in a certain sense,

it really was, and-- - Though, I'm being asked to,

in a sense, evaluate her life,

and I have to evaluate it from my point of view.

And as far as I'm concerned,

she was more or less of a waste.

And to me, the world is filled

with cruel people like that,

and the mere fact that you love people,

my dog loved me, my cat loved me, all very beautiful.

But to me, maybe I'm a utilitarian,

but she went right through this thing,

left nothing behind, took nothing with her--

- Even though I think this woman may or not realized

that she was a happy person,

but I think in reviewing her life,

she had much more fulfilling life than many people have.

- This woman lives in a world full

of humanity that isn't worthy

and even if they did say,

"Oh, you're great, we really like you,"

or they gave her a pat on the back,

it's meaningless because these are empty, selfish people

who missed the whole point of living

and she's the only one who's found it.

- Do you think this woman could have been tempted by Faust?

(loudly laughing) (man softly talks off mic)

Really?

See, I think that it would be impossible

for her to have been--

- Tempted? - Tempted, yeah.

- What person wouldn't be tempted by Mephistopheles?

The people who can be tempted by the devil are people

who are unsatisfied, unhappy.

It's to the degree that we are unhappy

that we can be tempted by somebody like Mephistopheles

and I think if you recognize the fact that she couldn't be,

it's almost a statement saying that she had,

she was too happy to be tempted.

- In the opinion of you ladies in the audience,

did he do a good job of that, of showing her character?

Now, that's not very easy for a man to write

about the inner workings of a woman.

- [Man] Good question.

- Was he faithful to that?

Was she in essence depicted as a real honest-to-goodness,

flesh-and-blood woman with all a woman's

psychology at work and so on?

- [Chris] You can't lump 'em all in one little pack.

(laughing)

- [Facilitator] Well, I mean, let's put it this way.

A generic woman.

- [Women Together] Oh, oh!

- Let me put it to you this way, all the wonderful--

- [Man] You're getting it in your--

(laughing drowns out speaker)

- All the wonderful, marvelous--

(loudly laughing)

All the wonderful, marvelous attributes that she had,

we will claim.

In the name of womanhood, I claim them.

(loudly laughing)

- [Facilitator] Did he do it properly?

- What?

- Did he show her faithfully?

When I said, when I said-- - He show Felicite faithfully.

That's all you can say. - When I said a generic woman,

I didn't mean that to be funny,

I didn't mean that to be comical.

- [Woman] (laughing) Generic.

- I meant woman as woman, did he hit the psychology?

- [Woman] You mean her sexuality?

- No, every portion of her, her sexuality, her psychology,

her mental processes and so on.

- [Woman] No, no.

- Because most of us men do not really know women,

and probably vice versa.

- [Woman] Yeah, well, of course.

- Venus de Milo, I'm sorry, Venus de Milo was somebody's,

was a great sculptor's ideal of the idealized woman.

Flaubert happened to write about a wonderful woman,

that's all, I mean you can't, you really can't do that.

I mean, I really don't think you can.

- [Facilitator] Lola?

- He chose women to...

Put his ideas through, he chose that.

- [Facilitator] How well did he do it?

- Very well, excellently.

- [Woman] Very well.

- Coming from a lady.

- I kind of disagree that very well.

I think he could've written the same story,

except for the very beginning of the story,

from the point that he was employed

by Madam, what's her name?

- [Together] Aubain.

- Aubain, it could've been a man.

It could have been a simple man

who tended the animals and cleaned the barn.

It wasn't a real woman, it wasn't a real person.

It was an idealized good person

that could have been male or female.

- He was showing a kind, simple woman,

but he did not go into a woman's

deep emotions, her psychological viewing of things.

He just didn't touch on that, her sexuality.

Her feeling for...

If she would have a deep love

for another person, for a male.

He didn't display that side of a woman.

- It's a part that's not a woman,

could have been male or female.

- Yeah.

- He did not get into the soul,

or character or emotions of a woman.

(people chattering) (gavel clattering)

- Next week is (mumbles off mic)

(dog barking)

(people softly chattering)

- Right turn pushing down.

Raise up slowly, left turn,

pushing down hard on the bottom of the foot.

Raise up slowly,

right turn pushing down.

Raise up slowly, left turn pushing.

Raise up, straight ahead and (quickly mumbles) here now.

So, we want to go further, let 'em run.

Let the gravity take us.

Let the gravity keep us going.

Good, keep the knees bent, put the hands on the knees,

see how that feels, doesn't that feel good?

Now slowly bring the hands back up your leg,

push the hands down to your knees,

up,

hands to the knees, please.

Raise up,

straight ahead.

(people softly chattering)

(ski blades softly rustling)

- You're doing it, wahoo!

Go, go, go, go, go!

(ski blades softly rustling)

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow!

- [Announcer] Okay, coming in right now is number five.

(water softly crashing)

(softly chattering off mic)

(cars softly rustling)

- And see if this stuff helps out.

(loudly beeping)

No, that doesn't help.

- How about the neutrophils?

That hormone, the neutrophil?

(softly beeping)

- It does help out on that point,

it is white blood cells.

- You know why I'm telling you that?

Because this is designed to clean cancer in the blood.

And this is from a scientist in Canada.

- Interestingly, it does affect the hormone point,

(beeping)

the FSH hormone, and mostly, it affects your insulin.

It helps out there.

So, it affects these things at a metabolic level and not

at much of a overall organ level,

I guess that was the design (mumbles)

- Yeah, this is a product called 714-X

that's used in Canada for cleansing the blood

to release, what this scientist says, a K factor,

which is a stop on the immune system.

And it then allows the immune system

to attack the cancer cells.

- Well, let's leave that a moment here.

- A timeline.

- Yeah, this is our home-owned function

that's affected by the chronic infection in the prostate.

So, let's look back at our graph.

- [Patient] Alright. (device softly beeping)

- [Technician] It's not up there,

and we're getting closer to a remedy that will be helpful.

(softly beeping)

The homeopathic cannabis sativa.

- [Patient] Cannabis.

- That's marijuana, it's the common name.

- [Patient] You're kidding, so,

marijuana diluted would help this--

- It helped to clear out the congestion in the prostate

and that's a remedy that goes back many years.

And so, in the dilute form doesn't have any of the effect.

- [Patient] It does go back--

- This is an old time homeopathic remedy.

- Nice.

- Go, up here and look at this whole group here,

including the prostate complex,

the lymphangitis, to see if these all...

Look well together, that would be a good

harmonic prescription to help out for the prostate.

Now, we need some accompanying remedies

to also help a little bit more with the rejuvenation,

which we'll look in next for helping the detox

'cause the nosodes themselves are gonna be...

Very strong and powerful.

- So, you gotta get rid of the residue.

- [Technician] Yeah, and so we put the--

- To kill it. - Yeah, once the cannabis,

(quickly mumbles) those the specific nosodes,

we use some other tissue nosodes involved here

and we wanna get some richer complexes.

We wanna get some complex...

Drainage, these are from the BHI Company.

(softly beeping)

And these are homeopathic mixtures.

Okay.

Okay, it's not up there. (softly beeping)

And now let's go back up here to our page,

you see the effect allows this kind of balance.

It's probably combining too remedies

and it becomes disharmonic.

And to make a symphony orchestra of harmonic therapy,

we have to have everything in...

(softly beeping)

The harmonious form here,

that all your organs can respond to.

We'll see what that does on your liver.

That'll be a key organ that we detoxify, that's one good.

The kidney's another one.

We're gonna try to get the toxins in your blood stream

so the kidney can throw them out, kidney balances well.

And your stomach was a bit weak to begin with,

and balances out to stomach.

- Do you think this is the reason

for the stomach weakness?

Can we tell?

- We'd have to take a look,

we need to filter in through there,

and I don't recall right now which was the cause and effect.

I don't know if it was directly behind the stomach,

but the remedies we found are helpful.

Look a little bit at how your stomach was involved.

- [Patient] Small and large intestine.

- Yeah, let's look at the intestines,

that balances those out, how 'bout your heart?

Balances out your heart, how 'bout your endocrine system?

And the important one there was the hormone functions.

Here's our summation (mumbles) hormone, look at that,

comes right into 50.

How 'bout your specific hormones?

Your insulin hormone function?

(softly beeping)

50, it didn't come in quite as slow,

but at least it's in the grades.

One that we relate to FSH hormone,

and this brand new hormone we don't know about.

We just know it measures, but that one's balanced.

Okay, how 'bout your large intestine?

(softly beeping)

Balances that out.

Now, teeth--

- [Patient] That one went awful fast,

didn't it? - Yeah.

That went pretty well, that was a...

(softly beeps)

And that looks like that's correcting teeth, you know?

Which had their problems originating in the prostate.

I wanna have you test and make contact

on your hypothalamus point, that's all

of the regulating system-- - Where is that?

- [Technician] That's gonna be located right up here

behind your ear, in this little hollow--

- I have to hold it or can I take this?

- [Technician] Yeah, take the finger

that's holding this last bar,

and then point your finger right up there.

- [Patient] The hypothalamus?

- [Technician] The hypothalamus.

And while we're contacting it,

I'm gonna remeasure the energy point.

(softly beeping)

Our most sensitive indicator

and this gives us a level of effectiveness.

So, that still comes into balance quite well.

So, that would...

Leave it pretty satisfied

that we have a very effective therapy,

and it covers things we allow.

Let's quickly look at the prostate on the other side

next to everything over here.

- [Patient] Should I change hands?

- Keep the same hand for right now.

(softly beeping)

Okay, doesn't balance out the prostate adequately

on the other side.

And bladder, how 'bout kidney on this side?

(softly beeping)

How 'bout liver on this side?

Okay, we need to find a remedy

that the right side of your prostate needs to strengthen it.

(printer rustling)

- [Patient] So, you're saying that the prostate

is responsible for the stomach, and the--

- The stomach disturbance actually was

not the stomach organ.

The stomach meridian which forms the mammary glands.

- [Patient] Going through the mammary glands,

nobody else, I've been check so many times.

It's always my small intestine or large intestine.

And you're telling me it's not that at all,

it's the mammary glands.

- No, the aggression's always something...

We can look a little bit at which part of those is involved.

But by far, the greatest disturbance

is stemming from the prostate being the focal problem.

So, I would get that, if they say stomach,

that's when you don't know the branch off

of that stomach measurement point,

I found that it was not the stomach itself.

In the case that happens,

your stomach meridian is disturbed

by another part, another member of this whole--

- [Patient] The problem's the meridian.

- No, the meridian,

which includes the branch, includes the thyroid,

parathyroid thymus glands all belong to the stomach,

certain teeth belong to the stomach system.

Up, beginning from the head,

you have a number of structures in there,

the whole pharynx and the throat belongs to stomach.

So, it's quite involved with other structures.

And so, the stomach,

in full point, could show a problem

but it's not the organ itself.

And that's why these other points are so useful

to track it down.

- It's a great pleasure to be here for the third

and you'll be glad to know the last session

of this series on...

God and the global economy or

whatever else you want to call it

but we're trying to relate our faith

to the more mundane, sometimes esoteric,

aspects of the material part of life.

Then we started to ask ourselves some questions

as to what if anything does the Bible have to say

about the the kind of lens through

which we as Christians should look at economic issues.

How do you get the economy going?

how do you make it efficient, and that's this.

Once you've got the economy going and growing

how do you distribute the benefits of the economy?

Who gets what goods, who gets how much wages,

who gets how much dividends and interests,

and who can spend?

So the question is distribution and we showed

that the Bible has two principles

that sort of parallel those two economic principles

and the biblical principles are that

of stewardship on the one hand

and justice, economic justice in particular, on the other.

And we showed that the goal of this side

of the equation is overall growth,

the goal of this side of the equation is equity or fairness.

The focus here is on the production of the whole economy,

the focus here is particularly on the poor.

We then looked at the issue of work

which is a very important aspect to the economy,

employment, if you like,

and we identified six Christian views of work

which have permeated the church

at different times in the last two thousand years.

And those were the six, the Thessalonian,

the Traditional Roman Catholic view,

and the Reformation view which we like very much indeed,

and that's the one we sort of endorsed,

and we wondered why we'd lost it.

We wondered in particular why it was

that just two hundred years after the Reformation

when they had such a high view of work and employment

that the Industrial Revolution came along

which is a very good thing,

but what they did to their workers was a very bad thing

and we asked ourselves the question,

why could that possibly have happened

in just the space of two centuries?

And we identified some mistakes that the Reformers had made

and we also identified the convenient forgetting

of some fundamental principles

that the good Christian businessmen

in Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and elsewhere,

what they forgot in order to allow them

to put poor small children down the mines and exploit them.

We then looked at three further Christian views,

the Protestant liberal view,

the traditional evangelical view, as we call it,

and the yuppie evangelical view,

which a lot of us here subscribed to,

although we wish that we didn't.

We then looked at the strict capitalist view

and we thought we'd even learn something from the Buddhists.

Tonight, thought we would change tack again

and try and sort of pull it together the whole question.

How does a Christian approach economic life in general?

What are the principles?

We've seen some here, we've seen these two equations.

But if one turns to the Book of Romans in the New Testament

and looks at chapter 12 and verse two,

it says a very remarkable thing.

It says, "Don't be conformed anymore

"to the image or the pattern of this world

"but rather be transformed,"

and how should it be transformed?

By the renewing of your mind

and what I'd like to do this evening

is to ask the question what does it mean

to have a renewed mind and how do we apply

that renewed mind to the economy?

Which imagine is still over here

in some kind of graphical form

because I'll be referring to it

even though it doesn't exist.

What are the hallmarks of the Christian mind?

A lot of us like to think we're developing a Christian mind

and not many of us take the trouble to think, well,

what would that Christian mind look like when we get it?

Now this issue troubled C. S. Lewis a lot.

C. S. Lewis went around having a lot of discussions

with a lot of people including Christians

and he was struck by the fact

that if you talk to a Christian

about issues like education, or politics,

or economics, or anything like that,

the kind of conversation you had was no different

from someone who wasn't a Christian.

In other words, there was no difference in their mind

and he got to thinking shouldn't there be

some distinctive Christian mind to bring

to some of these interesting issues?

There's a chap called Harry Blamires

who was a student of C.S. Lewis,

and he was troubled by this too,

and he wrote a book in 1963 entitled, The Christian Mind,

which I found very helpful indeed.

In that he said, "The Christian mind has succumbed

"to the secular drift with a degree of weakness

"unmatched in Christian history."

Presumably, as we as Christians look at the economy,

we should look at it through

such supernatural eyes if you like.

Clearly, we're living and working in the world

in here and now, no question about that,

but presumably, our emphasis should be above

and beyond the here and now,

should focus in addition on the eternal.

Presumably, the Christian mind should see human life

and human history held in the hands of God

and should see the whole universe sustained by his power.

And when we sing the little jingle chorus,

you know, "The world is not my home,

"I'm just passing through,"

it's not just a trite saying.

There's a profound truth in that,

but what is it mean as we take that truth

and we apply it to our work and to our economic life?

An understanding of the eternal significance of things

frees us up to do a really good job.

Without an eternal perspective, everything is meaningless.

(cars softly rustling)

(laughing) - [Man] Fright, fright,

frightened, frightened, yeah. - [Woman] Frightened.

(laughing) Assuming it's--

Fly away in space.

- What the hell's that for Christ's sake?

- [Man] Right, right, a bird.

- [Woman] It's a bird, a frightened bird.

(humming melody) It's a military figure.

- Yeah.

- [Woman] Okay, is it a military figure?

- Mm-hm.

- [Woman] March, a sergeant--

- [Woman] Albert Göring.

(laughing) (singing melody)

No, John, you can't do that

- [Man] Marshal, marshal.

- [Woman] Two, salute.

- [Man] Second word.

- [Woman] Is he German?

- [Man] Second word, second word.

(laughing) - Is he German?

- [Man] He's doing the second word for half an hour!

(laughing)

- He's very terrified of flight.

- It's part of fly, something fly.

Something fly, isn't it, something--

- [Woman] Okay, the whole concept.

- No.

- [Woman] The world, something about the world.

- The whole concept is--

- [Woman] Is he English?

- My country. - Is he English?

- My country. - Patriot, patriotic, loyal.

- Kitchen, kitchenette.

Montgomery.

- Oh, subservient to, okay,

subservient to some higher power.

- [Woman] Is he Christian?

(laughing) - He's something, he is...

To God, to-- - High, higher--

(laughing)

- Oh, I know!

- Oh, fly. - Fly, fly, fly?

(laughing) (shrieks)

- Underpants. - Dick.

- Penis.

- Oh, God, don't make me do this. (laughs)

- [Man] Get back, everybody.

(laughing)

- What's he doing there?

I don't know what he's doing.

- Penis. - Has to do with the back--

- Cock, cocked robin, prick.

(laughing)

Erection.

(laughing) - Come on, Zeke!

I say them.

- Oh, I know, what do you call it in English?

(laughing)

- Come on. - Bang.

With the big bang? - Hair.

- No.

- Yeah, he knows! - Pubic hair.

- Pubic. - Pubic hair.

- What is pubic hair for Christ's sake?

(loudly laughing)

- Bush. - God, yes!

(laughing drowns out speaker)

- George Bush!

- [Woman] Are we finished now?

- George Bush?

(loudly laughing)

Was it, was it George Bush?

- [John] It was Dan bloody Quayle!

- Dan Quayle!

- [Man] He was married to George Bush for a while.

(loudly laughing)

- [Man] That's right, I see.

- Did he get mixed up?

- [John] No, I didn't get mixed up!

(loudly laughing)

What do you think all that quailing was about?

And then the flying--

- Oh, is that what you were doing?

- [Woman] Quails don't fly.

- [John] What do you mean quail don't fly?

- No, they just stretch. (laughs)

- The fly like-- (laughing)

- [Man] They certainly don't jump on all the furniture.

(loudly laughing)

- Or unzip their flies.

(laughing)

(fiddle and banjo folk music)

♪ Couple one, you go uptown ♪

♪ And you bring that other couple down ♪

♪ Take that couple right on by ♪

♪ Walk 'em along the railroad track ♪

♪ Swing that couple then go between ♪

♪ Everybody elbow swing ♪

♪ The lady goes right, gent goes left ♪

♪ Get back on and swing like the rest ♪

(music drowns out singer)

(fiddle and banjo folk music)

♪ Couple two, you go uptown ♪

♪ And you bring that other couple down ♪

♪ Take that couple right on by ♪

♪ Walk 'em along the railroad track ♪

♪ Swing the couple then go between ♪

♪ And everybody elbow swing ♪

♪ Lady goes right, gent goes left ♪

♪ Get back on and swing like the rest ♪

(music drowns out singer)

(fiddle and banjo folk music)

(cars softly rustling

(orchestral swing music)

(birds softly chirping) (dog softly barks)

- We have gathered here today

that God might have the privilege of dwelling among us,

that he might express himself among us.

Jesus made a great promise, he said,

"Where two or three are gathered in my name,

"I will be there," we don't have to ask him to come.

We don't have to wonder if God is among us,

he is here with us.

Now, the truth is God is everywhere

and the trick for us as human beings is

to learn to experience his presence.

Now, you have to be a real saint

to experience God's presence in some situations.

For instance, if you go to Denver

and get caught in the Mousetrap,

sitting in a terrible traffic jam on a hot summer day,

you really have to be a saint to be aware

of the presence of God in that situation.

On the other hand, if you cross-country ski up past Ashcroft

and spend a little time up there,

you don't have to be a real great Saint

to be aware of God's presence up there.

It's a whole lot easier to be sensitive to

and aware of the presence of God in some places than others.

Our hope is that when we gather together as a church,

God's presence will really be made known among us.

Did you realize that in the inner city

of Denver this morning,

Jim Cessna will be preaching the gospel

to a group of people at Neighborhood Church?

There won't there won't be many white faces there.

They're in a whole different world than we are,

they have a couple of men who stand at the door

to make sure no one brings a weapon into church.

They also stand at the door

to keep an eye on the parking lot

and keep the cars from being bashed in and destroyed.

They'd never think of doing what I did this morning

which is parking a vehicle with a pair of skis,

sitting in the boot, they'd never think of that

because anything left loose would be stolen.

Do you realize that's part of your family

in the inner city of Denver today?

Do you recognize this morning that

throughout this town and all different kinds of churches,

our family is meeting to worship God?

Do you realize that you're a part

of a vast and marvelous community?

The household of God and you're part of that.

There's a wonderful thing that happens

when people gather around the scriptures.

The Bible becomes the glue

that builds the Christian community

and takes it from being a group

of isolated individuals into a group of people

who can legitimately be called family.

The presence of God in the church

is built precisely around the process

of our allowing him to build us into a community,

to join us to each other.

In 1977...

on December the 4th,

a small group of people gathered in a small club house,

sitting on metal chairs.

They gathered together because they decided

they were supposed to become a church

in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

If you'd been there that morning

you would have been struck probably first of all

by the beauty of the lady

who was going to lead the singing.

She was a professional model,

played the guitar and had a radiant face.

Her husband was a young bodybuilder.

They were in the forefront of the building of health clubs.

Twenty eight years of age,

they were already on their way

to becoming millionaires.

They parked their beautiful light blue Cadillac

in the parking lot,

come in dressed in the finest of fashions.

You would also see a couple

that was rather diminutive in size,

coming in with their teenage daughter.

You would notice that their daughter's face

was set in a scowl

that she was not the least bit happy to be there

and wanted everyone to know that was how she felt.

However, you would also notice that Glenn,

a quiet kind of man, had a little mischievous grin

that kept playing around his lips,

and his wife was the most vivacious person,

we would later nicknamed her, Sunshine.

You would see the two of them greeting

as many people as they could

and one of the families they would greet

would be a local dentist,

arriving with his two teenage daughters and his wife.

What you wouldn't know by looking is

that he was secretly addicted to the gas

that he provided for his patients

to relieve them from pain.

What you wouldn't see behind the lovely clothes

and the fine smiles was tremendous heartache

that God would miraculously heal in the coming months.

Another couple would arrive with their teenage son,

Meade and Meade, his and her lawyers.

You would see them walking in

with the fine-looking young man

but what you wouldn't know is that in their hearts,

three were missing.

Because only a year before,

their other three teenage children had been killed

in a car wreck on their way to school.

And the only reason they still had one was

because he had developed a cold

and been unable to go to school on that fateful day.

As they walked into the room,

they might have sat down by another couple,

Charlie and Della.

This couple was not dressed quite so nicely.

Their faces showed that they had been

through some rough times.

If you could have talked to them,

they would have told you that Della had had an affair,

that Charlie had caught her and her lover together

and murdered him.

And after he went to prison,

Della had found Jesus Christ as her Savior,

her pastor had gone and led Charlie to the Lord,

and their marriage had been healed

when he returned from prison.

They're a miracle, just an ordinary-looking miracle,

but they're a miracle.

Another couple would be there,

a man who was a door hanger in construction

with his wife who's over six feet tall,

a former semi-professional basketball and softball player.

Her loud joyful smile and laugh hid the fact

that she had been raped over 100 times

by her father when she was a little girl.

The lady at the piano would be sitting there,

getting ready to play magnificent music

and sing with a marvelous voice,

and her smile and the sound of her music would hide the pain

of two previous divorces.

Darrell and Pat were there with their small children.

He ran a steamboat, a riverboat,

would often be gone for days and weeks at a time.

Dave and Sherry would be coming in

with their small children, Dave a Vietnam vet,

who was given to violent, violent moments

when he would flashback to something

that happened to him in those bitter moments in Vietnam.

Addicted to drugs,

but a man who had become set free

and become our church custodian,

Charlie would be there with his family,

a recovering drug addict,

a man trying to deal with all the guilt feelings

that he had from the ways he had abused his family.

And on and on it goes.

I can tell you about others.

Duane and Norah Lee Allen walked in,

lead singer of The Oak Ridge Boys

and the lady who sang on the Grand Ole Opry.

And that incredible collection of varied people

gathered on that Sunday morning

to open their hearts to the God of the universe

and say, "If you can build us together

"if you can join us together, we will become a church."

And scarcely five years later,

all of those same people were still there

but there were another thousand gathered with them.

Because great things happen

when the church produces the miracle

of a new and different fellowship.

What happens?

Jehovah-shammah becomes a reality

and the Lord is present, let's pray.

Oh God as we open our hearts to you today,

we open our hearts to you in a fresh new way to say

please make us...

an imperfect and varied people

coming from such a wide variety of backgrounds,

coming from different places throughout the US

and even other parts of the world,

please build us together.

Please join us together.

When we gather here on Sundays,

may the world know that you are here

as surely as liquor is present in a tavern.

May the world know that you are here

as surely as the Denver Broncos are present

at a football game in their Stadium,

and may we somehow allow you to have a vehicle

to express yourself, week after week,

so that you might do incredible things with our lives.

So that you might heal the loneliness

that so many of us carry

by letting us truly be your family,

your household, in Jesus' name, amen.

♪ O sacred Head, now wounded ♪

♪ With grief and shame weighed down ♪

♪ Now scornfully surrounded ♪

♪ With thorns, Thine only crown ♪

♪ How pale thou art with anguish ♪

♪ With sore abuse and scorn ♪

♪ How doth Thy visage languish ♪

♪ Which once was bright as morn ♪

(baby loudly crying)

♪ What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered ♪

♪ Was all for sinners' gain ♪

♪ Mine, mine was the transgression ♪

♪ But Thine the deadly pain ♪

♪ Lo, here I fall, my Savior ♪

♪ 'Tis I deserve Thy place ♪

♪ Look on me ♪

♪ With Thy favor ♪

♪ Assist me with Thy grace ♪