WEBVTT 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.500 Lord, it belongs not to my care whether I die 00:00:06.500 --> 00:00:11.619 or live. To love and serve thee is my share, 00:00:11.779 --> 00:00:18.300 and this thy grace must give. If life be long, 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:23.640 I will be glad that I may long obey. If short, 00:00:23.899 --> 00:00:29.559 yet why should I be sad to sword you endless 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:35.920 day? Christ leads me through no darker rooms 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:41.640 than he went through before. And he that into 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:50.159 God's kingdom comes must enter, beloved, by his 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:58.179 door. Do you want to know something? The most 00:00:58.179 --> 00:01:04.230 amazing thing is the fact that we are living 00:01:04.230 --> 00:01:10.030 in a day when most folk know an awful lot about 00:01:10.030 --> 00:01:17.370 life and few people know how to live. And it's 00:01:17.370 --> 00:01:21.689 just like that. For a few minutes, I want to 00:01:21.689 --> 00:01:25.290 talk to you about something that has meant an 00:01:25.290 --> 00:01:31.260 awful lot to me. It was something that I... learned 00:01:31.260 --> 00:01:36.480 quite early in life. And I want to pass it on 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:42.120 to you. It's something that I try to practice 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:48.760 every day, every week, every year of my life. 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:53.219 There's scarcely a day goes by but what someone 00:01:53.219 --> 00:01:56.900 will say to me, my goodness, Miss Guman, every 00:01:56.900 --> 00:01:59.599 time we see you, you're smiling. You seem so 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:06.340 happy. I'm going to tell you why I'm really happy. 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:11.580 I'm going to tell you what makes me happy. I'm 00:02:11.580 --> 00:02:13.719 going to take the lid off of my heart for just 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:17.199 a few minutes. And I want you to see something 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:22.199 that's way down deep there. And I pray that you 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:28.960 will learn the secret of finding real happiness 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:37.919 in life. We're born with two instincts. Hunger 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.900 and the fear of falling. Any doctor will tell 00:02:41.900 --> 00:02:45.520 you that. Any psychiatrist will tell you that. 00:02:45.860 --> 00:02:50.080 All of us. I don't care how big, how strong you 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.099 are. I don't care what strength of character 00:02:53.099 --> 00:02:58.879 you may have. We're all born with these two instincts. 00:03:00.060 --> 00:03:05.060 Hunger. And the fear of folly. Even as tiny babes, 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:09.319 our first thoughts are concerned with satisfying 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:19.099 our hunger. And holding on to someone. Oh, you 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:23.699 see a little tiny baby. Invariably, the little 00:03:23.699 --> 00:03:29.680 tiny fingers will hold on to something. Will 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:34.919 grasp. the finger of its mother, grasp the finger 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:39.580 of its dad, and hold on tightly while it's taking 00:03:39.580 --> 00:03:44.080 its milk from the bottle. That's right. Those 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.159 are the first thoughts of many people all the 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.560 way through their lives. That's the reason so 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:57.639 very few people ever rise to greatness. They 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:04.520 never save. Anybody but themselves. Recently, 00:04:04.539 --> 00:04:06.879 I flew down the Mississippi for about 100 miles. 00:04:07.139 --> 00:04:10.979 It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the great 00:04:10.979 --> 00:04:16.920 river below our plane looked like a flowing silver 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:22.399 ribbon as the soft beams of the moon played on 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:26.319 it. Oh, it was a beautiful sight. The beautiful 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:31.439 Mississippi River. it gave me a tremendous thrill 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:36.680 to watch the river the greatest in the whole 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:44.399 world and as i was looking down upon it i realized 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:50.879 that for centuries it has been giving all that 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:57.720 it has it freely pours out all of its waters 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:04.860 into the big Gulf of Mexico. Propose a minute. 00:05:05.699 --> 00:05:08.980 Suppose the Mississippi River decided it could 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:13.980 not afford to give so freely, that instead it 00:05:13.980 --> 00:05:19.180 began to hold back for fear that it would run 00:05:19.180 --> 00:05:24.680 dry, that it would cease to be a great river. 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:33.540 Instead, it would become just a swamp. And as 00:05:33.540 --> 00:05:38.079 a swamp, it would be an ugly thing and a breeder 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:44.120 of evil. But do you want to know why the Mississippi 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:57.199 is so great? It gives all that it has. all that 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:03.660 it has and continues to give, it has not run 00:06:03.660 --> 00:06:09.620 dry. God takes care of the river. He causes the 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:13.100 sun to draw the water out of the gulf into clouds. 00:06:13.540 --> 00:06:17.040 The winds come and carry the clouds back up the 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:21.240 river, and the clouds pours the water back again. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:29.759 What the river gives It gets back. Now listen 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:36.639 very closely. One of the unexplainable but true 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:42.560 mysteries of life is the fact that you never 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:49.800 lose one single thing that you give. That's right. 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:59.290 No man can... Out give God. Try it. Just start 00:06:59.290 --> 00:07:04.129 trying it. Somebody listen to me right now. You 00:07:04.129 --> 00:07:09.990 try to out give God. You can't do it. The more 00:07:09.990 --> 00:07:14.350 that you give to God, the more he gives back 00:07:14.350 --> 00:07:20.550 to you. It's just like that. It's one of the 00:07:20.550 --> 00:07:25.430 unexplainable. But one of the true mysteries 00:07:25.430 --> 00:07:29.589 of life. You start giving to your fellow man. 00:07:31.110 --> 00:07:36.910 You can't out -give humanity. You start giving. 00:07:37.069 --> 00:07:42.009 Start giving to your neighbor. Start giving to 00:07:42.009 --> 00:07:50.170 your fellow man. You can't out -give. It'll come 00:07:50.170 --> 00:07:57.089 back. to you a hundredfold in one form or another. 00:07:58.509 --> 00:08:04.490 You never in a thousand worlds lose what you 00:08:04.490 --> 00:08:10.189 give. The wisest man who ever walked on this 00:08:10.189 --> 00:08:14.730 earth, the very son of the living God said, he 00:08:14.730 --> 00:08:20.569 that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:27.740 No person ever really begins to live until he 00:08:27.740 --> 00:08:31.500 finds something big enough to give himself to. 00:08:32.139 --> 00:08:39.700 If you want to know how to really live and be 00:08:39.700 --> 00:08:43.259 happy in living, give yourself to something that's 00:08:43.259 --> 00:08:49.860 bigger than yourself. Start giving. Giving. You 00:08:49.860 --> 00:08:55.659 and I were created. We were made for outgoing 00:08:55.659 --> 00:09:02.000 love. That's right. We must see the necessity 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:11.460 of a creative and an outgoing love. It's in the 00:09:11.460 --> 00:09:17.500 words of Professor Hawking. This is what he said. 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:24.000 The most radically creative attitude yet known 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:31.100 to men is the determination to do what the everlasting 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:37.940 mercy does. The everlasting mercy is creative 00:09:37.940 --> 00:09:46.419 and outgoing in love. And if you want to survive, 00:09:47.610 --> 00:09:51.529 If you want to learn how to live and live happy, 00:09:51.710 --> 00:09:58.090 get faith, get an overdose of outgoing love, 00:09:58.350 --> 00:10:04.850 and make it contagious. Oh, to me, that's thrilling. 00:10:05.029 --> 00:10:11.470 Try it. It works. Remember something. Every normal 00:10:11.470 --> 00:10:16.279 man, every normal woman longs more... keenly 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:19.940 for love, for warm friendship, for admiration, 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:27.519 for human responsiveness from his fellows than 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:36.919 for anything else in the world. Then you start 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:43.200 passing out good cheer. Start passing out brotherly 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:49.409 love. Start passing out goodness. Start doing 00:10:49.409 --> 00:10:56.809 for others. And I'll promise you, you'll receive 00:10:56.809 --> 00:11:03.330 in turn a personal friendliness, a genuine happiness 00:11:03.330 --> 00:11:10.889 that you never dreamed possible. And which will 00:11:10.889 --> 00:11:17.129 absolutely, uh... change your entire life. That's 00:11:17.129 --> 00:11:22.769 right. It will revolutionize your entire life. 00:11:22.950 --> 00:11:27.669 It'll take you out of yourself. It'll take you 00:11:27.669 --> 00:11:34.309 out of your smallness. It'll take you out of 00:11:34.309 --> 00:11:41.830 bigotry. It's one of the greatest medicines that 00:11:41.830 --> 00:11:47.250 I know. anything about don't wait for some miracle 00:11:47.250 --> 00:11:53.649 to be performed on you from without don't wait 00:11:53.649 --> 00:12:00.070 for something from without to change your mental 00:12:00.070 --> 00:12:06.210 attitude to give you a physical uplift to do 00:12:06.210 --> 00:12:13.850 something to you mentally no That miracle must 00:12:13.850 --> 00:12:17.990 begin within you. It's got to be performed on 00:12:17.990 --> 00:12:25.149 you. And you will find that that miracle of outgoing 00:12:25.149 --> 00:12:29.429 love will lift you above your fears, above your 00:12:29.429 --> 00:12:35.190 doubts, and above your self -centeredness. You 00:12:35.190 --> 00:12:40.230 help God from within by turning in outgoing love 00:12:40.230 --> 00:12:44.340 to others. And miraculously, your fears and doubts 00:12:44.340 --> 00:12:47.580 and self -centeredness will all vanish. But the 00:12:47.580 --> 00:12:51.039 miracle starts within, not from without. Throw 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:54.240 your will on the side of outgoing love, and all 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.059 the healing resources of the universe will be 00:12:57.059 --> 00:13:02.039 within you. And you'll be amazed how quickly 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:07.059 you'll find happiness. But neither God nor man 00:13:07.059 --> 00:13:11.080 can help you if you remain bottled up. in yourself. 00:13:12.580 --> 00:13:19.860 Oh, that's glorious. No. Remember, if you haven't 00:13:19.860 --> 00:13:23.259 heard a single thing that I have said in the 00:13:23.259 --> 00:13:25.980 past several minutes, remember this one thing. 00:13:26.820 --> 00:13:35.279 No person ever really begins to live until he 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:40.620 finds something big enough. to give himself to.