- right in the frame okay anyways hi my
name is father Mike Schmidt and this is
essential reasons so um I don't know if
it was a video that came out recently or
a video it's going to come out about
humility
um in the video I think I would stand by
most everything that I said there but um
I did a comparison where I that
comparison I I noted the song this is me
from the musical the greatest showman
and I was like oh my gosh are you
kidding me another song that's like this
triumphant anthem of someone like
singing about like this is me I'm
glorious how I am and I'm fine how I am
you have to love me because I am me all
those kinds of things and I was like a
little bit maybe cantankerous is that
the right word cantankerous maybe
curmudgeon II probably yes because I was
like are you kidding me dala back I
still maintain in this very important
thing is that yes the bearded lady is
worth loving this is so important she's
worth loving but my issue was why is she
worth loving it's because she's been
made in the image and likeness of God
himself this is the most important thing
on our own just that collection
molecules not enough but if God has made
us on purpose then that's enough but
here's the problem here's the problem
after I made this video that video I
went and watched won't you be my
neighbor about mr. Rogers about Reverend
Fred Rogers and I was like oh my gosh
what the heck father Mike why are you
such a why are you so stupid
because in that video in that part of
that video what I forgot was there are
some people who actually don't know that
it's good that they exist that might be
you right now
that might have been you watching that
video and you'd be like wow yes thanks a
lot uh I bet that song gave me a lot of
encouragement that song made me feel
better about myself and now you're
saying that I'm terrible I say that's
not what I said but I get it there are
people and I know this I you know people
every single day I just kind of forgot
in the moment that there are many people
who wonder what it says if mr. Rogers he
says there are people who asked the
question am i a mistake and I just heard
that on the movie and I was like oh my
gosh there are people who actually asked
that question am i a mistake you know
and I should have known this I wrote a
whole book over the book it's called a I
made for love this isn't an
advertisement thing but it's like in the
book like when I was writing the book
the actual working title of this book
was called it is good that you exist so
that's that's the title that I had
written on the document as I was writing
the rest wrote righted the rest of the
man wrote the rest of the manuscript
because why because there's a lot of
people who wonder am i a mistake
now if you're watching yours like that
you know what mr. Rogers he's the
problem mr. Rogers and his like you know
you're everyone's special kind of a
mentality mr. Rogers and his let me
encourage you for doing nothing
mentality that's what's wrong with the
world we'll listen mr. Rogers and Pope
Benedict the sixteenth have a lot in
common why miss Pope Benedict himself
says almost exactly what mr. Rogers says
I just think he says a little more
eloquently and with the German accent
but here's what Pope Benedict says about
this whole thing of like the question am
i a mistake being to know when someone
says hey I like you as you are here's
what Pope Benedict says he said when I
know that I'm wanted that I have a task
in history like you know basically when
you know you're on a mistake when you
know that you're not an accident you're
not a cosmic accident
that you exist because God wants you to
exist so when I know that I'm wanted to
have a task in history that I'm accepted
and loved man can only accept himself if
he knows he's accepted by someone else
it was on until I am accepted and loved
by another I cannot accept and love
myself this is not mr. Rogers this is
Pope Benedict the sixteenth until I'm
accepted and loved by another I actually
can't accept and love myself to have
someone come along and say I like you as
you are you are not a mistake is so
important and so critical that yes it
makes sense that people would resonate
with the song this is me because they're
like I don't know if anyone likes me
like that I don't know if anyone accepts
me like that I don't know if anyone
wants me like that Pope any of this goes
on to say though
I says but then even then the sense is
fragile because all human acceptance is
fragile this is so profound because it's
not just about like someone coming along
and saying hey you're good enough you're
smart enough and doggone it people like
you it's God Himself looks at you and
here's what he says ultimately we need a
sense of being accepted unconditionally
only if God accepts me and I have become
convinced of this do I know definitively
it is good that I exist amazing that is
only when God accepts me and I become
convinced of this that I can know
definitively it is good that I exist I
like you as you are you are not a
mistake and how do you know that if God
accepts you unconditionally Romans
chapter 5 God proves his love for us and
that while we were still sinners Christ
died for us
BAM here it is God saying oh I know
you've got wounds I know you've got
wounds I know you struggle I know
there's things in your life that you are
not proud of and there's choices you've
made that you should not have made I
know that there's a brokenness inside of
you that no one else sees but I'm gonna
prove my love for you and that while you
are still wounded and still we can and
still making bad decisions I'll die for
you and this is the heart of
Christianity if we forget this heart of
Christianity that God proves his love
for us and that while we were still
sinners Christ died for us
I might not like the song and I might
not like the musical but I like you
you're not a mistake and it is good that
you exist from all of us here at
accenture presents my name is father
Mike god bless sure to like subscribe
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