William H. Willimon - "The Seduction of Dreams" Baccalaureate Service (May 14, 1993)

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	(organ music)	0:00
	(choral singing)	5:53
	(organ music)	6:55
	(choral singing)	7:34
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	8:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	8:07
	(choral singing)	8:14
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	8:42
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	8:47
	(choral singing)	8:54
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	9:23
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	9:27
	(choral singing)	9:34
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	10:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	10:07
	(congregational singing)	10:48
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	11:15
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	11:20
-	You may be seated.	11:32
	The confession of our sin before God	11:44
	and one another reminds us that as individual believers	11:47
	and as a community of faith, we sometimes turn away	11:51
	from the ways of love and justice.	11:55
	We believe that if we confess our sin, we shall be forgiven	11:58
	and freed from the burden of guilt and empowered	12:02
	to carry on the ministry of Christ.	12:06
	Therefore, with confidence in the mercy of God,	12:09
	let us pray together.	12:11
All	Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned	12:14
	against you in thought, word and deed by what we have done,	12:18
	and by what we have left undone.	12:24
	We have not loved you with our whole heart.	12:27
	We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	12:30
	We are truly sorry, and we humbly repent.	12:33
	For the sake of your son, Jesus Chris, have mercy on us	12:38
	and forgive us that we may delight in your will	12:42
	and walk in your ways to the glory of your name.	12:47
	Amen.	12:51
-	For as the heavens are high above the Earth,	12:56
	so great is God's steadfast love for those who fear him.	12:59
	As far as the east is from the west, so far does God remove	13:04
	our iniquities and transgressions from us.	13:09
	Amen.	13:13
	(organ music)	13:35
	(singing in foreign language)	14:20
-	Let us pray.	19:22
	Almighty God, in you are hidden all the treasures	19:28
	of wisdom and knowledge.	19:32
	Open our eyes that we may see the wonders of your word,	19:34
	and give us grace that we may clearly understand	19:38
	and freely choose the way of your wisdom.	19:42
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	19:47
	The psalter is Psalm 27:1-4, found on page 758	19:52
	in the back of your hymn book.	19:58
	Please stand as we read responsively.	20:00
	The Lord is my light and my salvation.	20:16
	Whom shall I fear?	20:19
All	The Lord is the stronghold of my life.	20:22
	Of whom shall I be afraid?	20:25
-	When evil doers assail me to devour my flesh,	20:28
	my adversaries and foes shall stumble and fall.	20:32
All	Though the host should stand against me,	20:36
	my heart shall not fear.	20:39
	Though war shall rise against me, yet I will be confident.	20:42
-	One thing I ask of the Lord.	20:46
	That will I seek after.	20:49
All	That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all	20:52
	the days of my life to behold the beauty	20:55
	of the Lord and to inquire on his holiness.	20:58
	(organ music)	21:03
	♪ Glory be to God, creator ♪	21:13
	♪ Praise to our deliverer ♪	21:19
	♪ Glory be to God, sustainer ♪	21:28
	(choral singing)	21:35
-	You may be seated.	22:04
	The lesson for this day is found in the first chapter	22:16
	of the book of Daniel.	22:20
	In the third year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah,	22:22
	King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem	22:27
	and besieged it.	22:30
	The Lord let King Jehoiakim of Judah fall into his power.	22:32
	Then the king commanded his palace master, Ashpenaz,	22:36
	to bring some of the Israelites of the royal family	22:41
	and of the nobility, young men without physical defect	22:44
	and handsome, versed in every branch of wisdom,	22:48
	endowed with knowledge and insight, and competent	22:52
	to serve in the king's palace.	22:56
	They were to be taught the literature and language	22:58
	of the Chaldeans.	23:01
	The king assigned them a daily portion of the royal rations	23:03
	of food and wine.	23:07
	They were to be educated for three years so that	23:09
	at the end of that time, they would be stationed	23:13
	in the king's court.	23:15
	Among them were Daniel, Hannaniah, Mishael and Azariah	23:17
	of the tribe of Judah.	23:23
	The palace master gave them Babylonian names,	23:26
	but Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself	23:29
	with the royal rations of food and wine,	23:33
	so he asked the palace master to allow him not	23:37
	to defile himself.	23:40
	Now God allowed Daniel to receive favor	23:42
	and compassion from the palace master.	23:45
	The palace master said to Daniel, "I am afraid	23:47
	"of my lord, the king.	23:50
	"He has appointed your food and your drink.	23:52
	"If he should see you in poorer condition	23:55
	"than the other young men of your own age,	23:59
	"you would endanger my head with the king."	24:01
	Then Daniel asked the guard	24:05
	whom the palace master had appointed over Daniel	24:07
	and his Israelite friends, "Please test your servants	24:10
	"for 10 days.	24:13
	"Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.	24:15
	"You can then compare our appearance with the appearance	24:19
	"of the young men who eat the royal rations	24:23
	"and deal with your servants according to what you observe."	24:26
	So he agreed to this proposal and tested them for 10 days.	24:30
	At the end of 10 days, it was observed	24:35
	that they appeared better and fatter than all	24:37
	of the young men who had been eating the royal rations.	24:40
	So the guard continued to withdraw his royal rations	24:44
	and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables.	24:47
	To these four young men, God gave knowledge and skill	24:52
	and every aspect of literature and wisdom.	24:56
	Daniel also had insight into all visions and dreams.	24:59
	At the end of the time that the king had set for them	25:04
	to be brought in, the palace master brought them	25:08
	into the presence of Nebuchadnezzar and the king spoke	25:11
	with them, and among them all, no one was found	25:15
	to compare with Daniel, Hannaniah, Mishael and Azariah.	25:19
	Therefore, they were stationed in the king's court	25:24
	and every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning	25:27
	which the king inquired of them, he found them	25:30
	10 times better than all the magicians and enchanters	25:34
	in his whole kingdom.	25:38
	And Daniel continued there until the first year	25:39
	of King Cyrus.	25:43
	This is the word of the Lord.	25:45
All	Praise be to God.	25:48
	(organ music)	26:18
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:25
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:35
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:50
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:53
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:56
	♪ Praise God in his holy temple ♪	28:00
	♪ Praise him in the firmament of his power ♪	28:09
	♪ Praise him for his mighty acts ♪	28:20
	♪ Praise him for his excellent greatness ♪	28:24
	♪ Praise God with the blast of a ram's horn ♪	28:40
	♪ Praise him with a lute and harp ♪	28:53
	♪ Praise him with a lute and harp ♪	29:02
	♪ Praise our God with timbrel ♪	29:22
	♪ Praise him in this and dance ♪	29:26
	♪ Praise the Lord with strings ♪	29:42
	♪ Praise the Lord with pipe ♪	29:50
	♪ Praise God with resounding cymbals ♪	30:07
	♪ Praise him with loud clanging cymbals ♪	30:15
	♪ Let everything that has breath ♪	30:41
	♪ Praise the Lord ♪	30:48
	♪ Praise the Lord ♪	30:52
	♪ Let everything that has breath ♪	30:56
	♪ That has breath ♪	31:05
	♪ That has breath ♪	31:09
	♪ Praise the Lord ♪	31:13
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	31:40
-	Dear class of 1993, your commencement.	32:15
	One reason that those of us here at the University look	32:22
	forward to this weekend, and one reason why	32:25
	your relatives have descended on Durham is	32:29
	that your commencement holds out for all of us	32:32
	the prospect of fresh, energetic, new palate	32:37
	in a tired world.	32:43
	We need your gifts, your chutzpah, your enthusiasm,	32:47
	now more than ever.	32:52
	And yet, forgive us if our enthusiasm is tempered	32:55
	by the realization that given enough time	33:00
	you will probably grow to look much like us.	33:06
	(laughing)	33:12
	And it is that pitiful prospect which I hope	33:13
	to address this afternoon.	33:15
	And I don't mean that you will come to look	33:18
	like us physically, although you shall not be immune	33:20
	from the ravages of time.	33:25
	Everything about me worked when I arrived at Duke.	33:27
	I mean that you will come to look	33:31
	like us morally,	33:33
	spiritually.	33:36
	And I'm hoping that that sends a chill	33:39
	down your youthful spines.	33:41
	Oh, you don't think you will, but you will.	33:44
	The acids of conformity are too strong.	33:47
	The pressures to adapt, to acclimate,	33:51
	to adjust are so subtle and yet severe.	33:55
	But most of you shall be, say by your 10th reunion,	34:01
	as we are.	34:07
	Oh, you have your youthful ideals now,	34:10
	you're high-minded goals about your career,	34:12
	your precious visions for the future.	34:16
	But how can you be sure that you will not be ground	34:17
	down smooth as the rest of us by the rivers of acquiescence	34:22
	by the time you're 40?	34:25
	And I know that some of you worry about this.	34:29
	I've talked to you.	34:31
	I remember bumping into him on his way out of Duke	34:34
	a few years ago, on his way to medical school.	34:38
	"Med school," I said.	34:43
	"Good for you."	34:44
	"You think so," he asked.	34:46
	"Well, why, yes," I said.	34:49
	"Everybody wants to go to med school, become a doctor."	34:50
	And I think I saw a tear of terror in his eye as he asked,	34:55
	"But what is to keep me from looking like them	35:02
	"after they get through with me?	35:06
	"See, I want a family, I want to be a father,	35:11
	"I want to help people.	35:13
	"Five or six years from now I don't want to look like them."	35:15
	I'm trying to talk about that.	35:20
	I saw her march forth from here a few years ago,	35:23
	called by God into high school teaching.	35:27
	And I ran into her out back here in the parking last summer.	35:31
	She's not in teaching anymore.	35:36
	"Oh, the kids are fine," she said.	35:40
	"You expect the kids to be a challenge.	35:42
	"But what got me wasn't the kids.	35:46
	"What got me was the teachers, the principles,	35:50
	"the cynicism, the lack of commitment, the fatigue.	35:54
	"I'd burst into the teacher's lounge and I'd say,	36:00
	"'You should have seen the class that I had today!	36:02
	"'You should've seen it, everything just went great!'	36:05
	"And they'd say, 'They won't remember it tomorrow.'"	36:08
	And I remember she said to me, "Most good teachers die	36:16
	"in the teacher's lounge."	36:20
	(laughing)	36:22
	Or me.	36:26
	One of you came up to me last week and said you were talking	36:29
	to a friend and the friend said that she didn't go	36:32
	to Duke Chapel on Sunday morning.	36:34
	She said, "I like Dr. Willimon, but ah...	36:37
	"You know he has to weigh everything he says in a sermon	36:40
	"with an eye towards pleasing	36:43
	"and not upsetting the administration.	36:45
	"It just gets watered down after a while."	36:47
	I said, "Well, gosh, I'm doing the best I can."	36:51
	How can you be sure?	36:57
	What resources on this weekend can help you to resist?	37:00
	I'm going to tell you a story about resistance.	37:07
	It's an old story.	37:11
	One you've never heard before.	37:12
	It's from the book of Daniel, told, we believe,	37:13
	by Jews to sustain hope and confident resistance	37:16
	during the persecution of Jews by Antiochus	37:21
	in 175 BC.	37:27
	Here's a story which I believe attempted	37:32
	to lead Jewish youth from docility to ardent resistance	37:34
	by reaching back, back into Israel's earlier history,	37:40
	when they were on the Babylonian exile.	37:43
	And this story demonstrates, I think, how people	37:48
	of faith survived by faith in the face of assaults	37:51
	by the dominant culture.	37:56
	The story begins far away from home, out in Babylon.	38:00
	In exile.	38:04
	Babylon in this story from Daniel is a metaphor for empire.	38:06
	Empire, militarily-based, universally sanctioned power.	38:13
	It has a name in the story: Nebuchadnezzar.	38:17
	Nobody's bigger than King Nebuchadnezzar.	38:20
	Not the Jews, not even their God.	38:23
	And so the story opens with a temple destroyed	38:26
	and in ruins, the sacred vessels carried off	38:30
	for museums and Babylon, and the Jews as powerless exiles.	38:33
	And so we are not surprised when King Nebuchadnezzar has	38:39
	his chief of staff, Ashpenaz, bring a few talented,	38:42
	good-looking, smart Jewish boys to be educated	38:46
	in court service.	38:49
	But we are surprised that King Nebuchadnezzar isn't such	38:53
	a bad king after all.	38:55
	You can get used to these pagans after a while.	38:57
	For King Nebuchadnezzar, it appears, is a kind	39:00
	of multi-culturally appreciating liberal.	39:03
	Because from among these slaves, Nebuchadnezzar has reached	39:07
	down into the ghetto, and he graciously offers	39:10
	a few Jewish boys upward mobility.	39:14
	He is going to allow these Jewish youth to make good	39:16
	the imperial way.	39:20
	The story says these young men are without spot or blemish.	39:24
	They scored high on the SAT.	39:31
	They're full of learning and understanding.	39:33
	They're destined to lead.	39:35
	Just the sort of people sought	39:36
	by the Duke admissions office.	39:38
	(laughing)	39:40
	The sort pursued by big corporations and law schools.	39:41
	And they are to be pampered and cared for and given	39:46
	the very best education the empire's got to offer	39:49
	in this three-year executive training program.	39:53
	Now see, you thought this was an old Bible story	39:58
	you'd never heard before.	40:00
	But now it turns out, you actually know this story.	40:02
	You roomed with one of these people your junior year.	40:06
	The boys in the story are named Daniel and Hannaniah,	40:09
	Mishael, Azariah, but you know them.	40:12
	Some of you really know them.	40:14
	And while these lucky, gifted young people are being groomed	40:17
	for greatness, they are put on a special executive diet.	40:23
	They're not going to eat with the common rabble victims	40:28
	of the Duke food service.	40:30
	No.	40:31
	They are given royal rations.	40:32
	Food and wine from the faculty commons.	40:34
	(laughing)	40:37
	When the training program is over, they will know	40:40
	which fork to use and how to eat an artichoke	40:42
	and what to do with lobster.	40:44
	How to handle executive food.	40:46
	I well remember in one of my church a man	40:48
	that was an executive recruiter for a large corporation.	40:52
	I'm not going to mention the name, although they make	40:55
	computers in Research Triangle Park.	40:56
	(laughing)	40:59
	And he told me how he always, when he was going	41:00
	out selecting a new, young person to put	41:03
	into executive training program, he always took them out	41:06
	to a fancy restaurant.	41:09
	And there he always insisted that they order	41:12
	the French Onion soup.	41:15
	The kind that has that impervious cheese top on it	41:18
	that if you try to get into it, it always comes out	41:23
	over the side.	41:25
	And if you get into it, it strings out.	41:26
	And then he would try to have a conversation with 'em	41:29
	as they were eating this soup.	41:31
	In the story that the path toward capitulation always begins	41:59
	with bright, young people being told that they are bright.	42:03
	The best and the brightest, that they	42:07
	for special treatment, that they're lucky to be here.	42:10
	Nothing in the world is hardly ever	42:15
	coercive or confrontive.	42:17
	Conformity begins with compliments.	42:21
	It is seductive.	42:25
	Beer consumption has been declining among Americans	42:29
	every year for the past 15 years.	42:32
	Except among young adults.	42:36
	Is that why ACC basketball is brought to you	42:41
	by Anheuser-Busch?	42:43
	And you never see anybody my age on a beer commercial.	42:45
	And you thought that kegs was your idea.	42:50
	Thus, you see, we are surprised.	42:54
	We are surprised when we hear in the story	42:57
	that Daniel would not defile himself with the royal rations	43:02
	of food and wine.	43:07
	And I think the use of the word defile here hints	43:10
	that much is at stake here than business ethics.	43:13
	Something larger, maybe even religious, is going on here.	43:18
	'Cause in Babylon, nobody ever made a fuss over food.	43:22
	Diet was no big deal.	43:26
	You could eat whatever you wanted.	43:27
	They weren't religious fanatics.	43:30
	But Daniel, quietly but firmly, rejects imperial beef	43:31
	for Jewish vegetarianism.	43:36
	He alone rejects this royal program for upward mobility.	43:39
	And would you please note at this point,	43:44
	God enters the story.	43:46
	God, who's been absent for the whole story thus far,	43:48
	it says, "God allowed Daniel to receive favor	43:52
	"and compassion from the palace master."	43:55
	The palace master, like any government bureaucrat,	43:58
	is stunned to encounter someone running around loose	44:03
	who can say yes and can say no to what's happening	44:08
	in his life.	44:12
	He admires him, he wants to help him.	44:14
	But nevertheless, he, good bureaucrat that he is,	44:16
	is deeply concerned about what	44:20
	King Nebuchadnezzar might think about Daniel's resistance.	44:21
	What if the king notices that these Jewish boys are thinner	44:26
	than the others?	44:29
	So Daniel proposes and experiment.	44:32
	For 10 days, Daniel and his friends will follow their diet.	44:34
	A control group will feast on the king's beef and wine.	44:38
	Result.	44:43
	At the end of 10 days, they appeared better and fatter	44:45
	than all the young men who'd been eating the royal rations.	44:48
	The story hints that Daniel's amazing act	44:54
	of self-possession and free, risky resistance is	44:56
	a gift of God.	45:00
	Somehow God is mixed up in this.	45:02
	God again enters the story, and now he gives Daniel	45:05
	knowledge and skill and every aspect	45:09
	of literature and wisdom.	45:12
	Daniel also had insights into all visions and dreams.	45:17
	Now we didn't know that things would turn out this well	45:23
	in this story when we began.	45:26
	Daniel had no guarantee that his act of risky,	45:29
	non-conformist resistance would be rewarded thus.	45:32
	Nor do we.	45:37
	I didn't say that if you do right in life,	45:40
	right will always be done to you.	45:43
	But surprise, by the end of his story,	45:47
	we find out that God is on the side of the rebellious.	45:50
	Daniel is rewarded by Nebuchadnezzar	45:55
	who finds him 10 times better than all the magicians	45:57
	in his whole kingdom.	46:00
	All these bureaucrats and bean counters and political hacks	46:01
	and good soldiers and writers and keepers of rules	46:05
	and RAs in the dorm, they just bore God.	46:08
	God is on the side of the whistleblowers	46:12
	and the trouble makers and the Young Turks.	46:15
	God showed up, I will remind you, in only two places	46:20
	in this story of youthful resistance.	46:22
	First, to support Daniel in his dietary resistance.	46:25
	Second, to give Daniel dreams.	46:30
	God is with the dreamers.	46:34
	God appears to be with folk who've got a dream	46:38
	and they refuse to give it up to anybody	46:42
	in the front office.	46:45
	How do you hear an ancient story like Daniel?	46:50
	In our context, of course, our crisis is not one	46:55
	of exile, of persecution.	46:57
	I think our crisis is of seduction.	47:01
	Yet even in our context, we can identify	47:07
	with a little Daniel.	47:10
	The story, I think, suggests that an alternative identity	47:13
	depends upon an alternative dream.	47:17
	An alternative dream to that which is officially sanctioned.	47:21
	The story refused to abide within the confines	47:26
	of the rationality that's approved by the dominant order.	47:29
	Common sense, the empire's so-called universal values.	47:33
	I think here's a story that invites young adults	47:40
	to venture out and go forth beyond the predictable world	47:43
	of the status quo.	47:46
	The world which your elders always tell you is just	47:48
	a fixed reality to which you've got to adjust and adapt.	47:51
	It beckons you out into another world of risk,	47:56
	of gift, where unexpected things happen	48:02
	to bright, young people.	48:06
	Where courage pushes out people, alone to a place so risky	48:10
	that you've got to have God alongside you	48:15
	to give you hope.	48:18
	And the thing that worries me is that a lot	48:23
	of your education, no matter how good it's been,	48:27
	is often based upon a kind of reductionism.	48:30
	What the present controllers of curriculum or government	48:34
	or media tell you is possible and permissible	48:38
	for people your age.	48:41
	One of the sad functions of higher education is	48:43
	to domesticate youthful exuberance and expectation,	48:47
	to convince you that your main identity is mostly	48:52
	a matter of docile adjustment,	48:56
	rather than pushy, self-assertion.	48:58
	And it's all done so well that you don't know	49:03
	they've got you until you wake up one morning at 40	49:05
	and find that somebody else is pulling your strings.	49:08
	You find that there's almost nothing	49:14
	to which you will now not stoop.	49:15
	And the joy of your job, the joy of your jurisprudence,	49:19
	or the compassion in your medicine, or the vision	49:24
	in your teaching is all gone, and there's just	49:27
	no you there anymore.	49:29
	And when you lie in bed at night, there are no dreams.	49:34
	It's all so mundane, I can assure you.	49:41
	You get caught up in everyday issues like who feeds you	49:44
	and how much ar you willing to pay to sit	49:48
	at certain privileged tables.	49:51
	It always begins innocently with some kind of remark	49:54
	that they make around the table like,	49:57
	"We know we can count on you, Cheryl, to be a team player."	50:00
	Or something like, "Look, everybody does this."	50:03
	Something so innocent as royal rations.	50:10
	But it ends up with your loss of yourself and seduction	50:14
	into the imperial enslavement, and loss,	50:18
	relinquishment of your dream.	50:20
	I tell you, if you don't know who owns you,	50:24
	to whom you're ultimately accountable, you're no match	50:28
	for the dominant ideology of go along to get along.	50:33
	And I worry about you sometimes because one reason	50:38
	you got into Duke was, one reason you were so successful	50:44
	in getting out of Duke is that you've been good	50:48
	at obeying the rules.	50:51
	And getting along with the registrar.	50:53
	And I worry because have we deluded you	50:57
	into thinking that your future depends on your docility,	50:59
	you conformity, this suburban captivity?	51:03
	I pray not.	51:08
	Here's an old story that invites you	51:11
	to envision yourself afresh.	51:13
	To engage the powers that be with a kind	51:16
	of playful disrespect.	51:19
	To dare to dream and to hold on to that dream	51:22
	and to dare to resist.	51:26
	Jews in the occupied lands of Antiochus were told	51:30
	they had only one alternative: adjust, adapt,	51:34
	face facts, take government press releases at face value.	51:37
	Keep your head down, follow the rules.	51:41
	But here's a story which sketches an alternative reality,	51:44
	asserts that your dreams make all the difference.	51:51
	That your dreams are able to create a new world	51:58
	and that God just loves the rebels.	52:03
	Amen.	52:11
	(organ music)	52:18
	(congregational singing)	53:09
	Please join me in the prayer.	55:56
	Almighty God, as you have granted us a place	56:01
	in this university, hallow to us now this day	56:05
	when we dedicate ourselves to the life and work	56:09
	to which you have called us.	56:12
	That we may remember with gratitude the families	56:15
	and friends who have cared for us.	56:17
All	We ask for your grace our God.	56:21
-	That in the life ahead, we made keep faith	56:23
	with those who loved us and trusted us,	56:25
	and whose hopes follow us.	56:28
All	We ask for your surrender, our God.	56:30
-	That we may enter with good courage and constant purpose	56:33
	upon the tasks which await us.	56:35
All	We ask for your governance, our God.	56:38
-	From all vanity and pride, as if our accomplishments were	56:40
	of our sole creation.	56:44
All	Good Lord, draw it from us.	56:46
-	From neglect of the opportunities which are all	56:49
	about us and from distrust of our ability	56:51
	to meet the duties of each dawning day.	56:53
All	Good Lord deliver us.	56:56
-	Let the example of wise and generous people	56:58
	who have gone before us and our families,	57:01
	and here in this university, may save us	57:03
	from folly and self-indulgence.	57:06
All	We ask your good will upon us.	57:10
-	More especially that you would show to us	57:12
	your way of love in all we do or say,	57:15
	that we should come to love the Lord our God	57:18
	with our soul and mind and strength	57:21
	and our neighbor as ourselves.	57:23
All	We ask for your help, our God.	57:24
-	These things and whatever else you see needful	57:27
	and right for us, we ask in your holy name.	57:30
All	Amen.	57:33
-	Now class of 1993, may the Lord bless you and keep you	57:37
	and make his face to shine upon you and grant you peace	57:42
	all the days of your life.	57:46
	Amen.	57:49
	♪ God be in my head ♪	57:53
	♪ And in my understanding ♪	58:00
	♪ God be in mine eyes ♪	58:11
	♪ And in my looking ♪	58:17
	♪ God be in my mouth ♪	58:30
	♪ And in my speaking ♪	58:36
	♪ God be in my heart ♪	58:50
	♪ And in my thinking ♪	58:58
	♪ God be at mine end ♪	59:12
	♪ And in my departing ♪	59:25
	(organ music)	59:52
	(congregational singing)	1:00:35
	(organ music)	1:03:38
	(people chatting)	1:04:23

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "The Seduction of Dreams" Baccalaureate Service (May 14, 1993)

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May 14, 1993

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Willimon, William H.

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