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& i'll be there / to cherish & care for you

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i'll be there / to always see you through A sermon on Jesus' sermon on the not-so-ideal tenants : The ambition of Christianity , if Christianity can be said to have any ambition at all, is for you to do NOTHING. That’s right, nothing . The ambition of Christianity is for you to do NOTHING. But I know that doesn’t make much sense . Does it? Whoever heard of nothing as a goal ?!? What’s more , it’s something of an impossible aspiration, too. Isn’t it? You can’t DO nothing . That’s a contradiction ! Doing, by its very nature, must have something to do . And you can’t DO nothing ! Can you? Nevertheless, that’s the incredible aim of faith: to do NOTHING. That Catch-22 isn’t the only problem we have with doing nothing, though! Is it? Frankly, we’re not very good at it. Doing nothing DOESN’T come naturally to us . Oh, sure, we fantasize about doing nothing . But we don’t really like it. We are so averse to nothing that, at the first quiet moment , we’ll pull out our phone...