Darkness, Stripping, Surrender

So the live-stream was a hot mess (no audio fix for like 90 minutes) so when we got a workaround going, I also recorded the audio here in case. My plans and dreams for this first chance to address the whole parish and give them a common focus and encouragement kind of fell apart. And then, well, I fell apart too. Maybe the things God has to strip me of and make me surrender are precisely those traits of control and presumption and pride.