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	I drop my sword and cry for just a while		I drop my sword and cry for just a while
	'Cause deep inside this armor...the warrior is a child		'Cause deep inside this armor...the warrior is a child
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		+	[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQhGSBXsHI Twila Paris - The Warrior Is A Child]

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 But our cave days are also the times with the greatest potential to form us, to shape us, and to prepare us for the future God calls us into.  For David, the cave is where he finds the peace he needs to reflect, to take up his Psalms once more, to restore his connection with God through prayer and song. For the refugees who flock to David, the cave is a place of safety, justice, and renewed purpose.
-The cave is also a place of vulnerability, and we need those places in our lives, too.  The mightiest giant-slayers and Kings among us eventually stumble and fall.  We all come to the cave broken and rejected. We all need a place to lay down our armor and weep.
+The cave is also a place of vulnerability, and we need those places in our lives, too.  The mightiest giant-slayers and Kings among us eventually stumble and fall.  We all come to the cave broken and rejected. We all need a place to lay down our armor and weep. Recognizing that need, in ourselves and in each other, is important.
 Sometimes the cave is a place of isolation--David needed solitude first, in order to become a leader of people again.
-Sometimes the cave is a place of community--those who came to David needed the solidarity and support that only a community can provide.
+Sometimes the cave is a place of community--those who came to David needed the solidarity and support that only a community can provide.  When the church is functioning at its best, it can be like Adullam's cave--a safe refuge, a place to rest, to help each other heal and grow.
-The cave is important, but it doesn't last forever. For David, eventually the cave gives way to the palace and the throne.  The broken and the downtrodden who came to David in the cave eventually emerge as David's mighty men--their legends and exploits fill the later chapters of Samuel and Chronicles.
+The cave is important, but we don't dwell in it forever. David eventually emerges from the cave to claim his place as Israel's anointed King. The cave gives way to the palace and the throne.  The broken and the downtrodden who came to David eventually emerge from the cave as David's mighty men--their legends and exploits fill the later chapters of Samuel and Chronicles.

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 But our cave days are also the times with the greatest potential to form us, to shape us, and to prepare us for the future God calls us into.  For David, the cave is where he finds the peace he needs to reflect, to take up his Psalms once more, to restore his connection with God through prayer and song. For the refugees who flock to David, the cave is a place of safety, justice, and renewed purpose.
-The cave is also a place of vulnerability, and we need those places in our lives, too.  The mightiest giant-slayers and Kings among us eventually stumble and fall.  We all come to the cave broken and rejected.
+The cave is also a place of vulnerability, and we need those places in our lives, too.  The mightiest giant-slayers and Kings among us eventually stumble and fall.  We all come to the cave broken and rejected. We all need a place to lay down our armor and weep.
-Leadership principles:
+Sometimes the cave is a place of isolation--David needed solitude first, in order to become a leader of people again.
-*When God calls you, usually the cave comes before the palace.
-*When God calls you, he doesn't send you the professionals.  He sends the broken rejects.
+Sometimes the cave is a place of community--those who came to David needed the solidarity and support that only a community can provide.
-*But God uses the Cave.  God uses the people. Read a few chapters later to see how David's "mighty men" turn out.

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 In the world of Philosophy, Plato's famous allegory of the cave tells the story of several individuals in a cave, facing the back wall, only able to see the shadows formed by the sun's rays coming through the cave opening behind them.  For years, this is the extent of their reality, all they can know and perceived.  But eventually they emerge from the cave into the light of day, and true reality.  The cave  becomes a metaphor for darkness, and for the womb. Coming out of the cave into the light is a metaphor for rebirth, or awakening.
-In all of our lives, there are times of darkness. Wilderness times that threaten to devastate and overwhelm us.  Lonely times where we feel distant from God, from our loved ones, from our calling and purpose.
+In all of our lives, there are cave days--times of darkness. Wilderness times that threaten to devastate and overwhelm us.  Lonely times where we feel distant from God, from our loved ones, from our calling and purpose.
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-*Wilderness times in our lives, times of retreat and growth, expanding our vision and forming our values
 Leadership principles:

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 This is a low point in David's career, once filled with so much promise, but now so much uncertainty:  He was the one anointed by the prophet Samuel as God's chosen King.  He was the one who defeated the giant, Goliath.  The one who once led the armies of King Saul to victory after victory, as his fame and fortune grew.
-Now, he has lost everything.  He has no country. No Kingdom. No army. No resources.  Just a cave, near the ruins of Adullam, overlooking the valley of Elah, the site of his victory over Goliath.  I can imagine David sitting at the mouth of the cave, looking intently for any sign of those who are hunting him.  Looking...and thinking...and remembering.
+Now, he has lost everything.  He has no country. No Kingdom. No army. No resources.  Just a cave, near the ruins of Adullam, overlooking the valley of Elah, the site of his victory over Goliath.  I can imagine David sitting at the mouth of the cave, watching intently for any sign of those who are hunting him.  Looking... and thinking... and remembering... and wondering...
-*No country
+Psalm 57 begins: "Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, until the destroying storms pass by. I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me. He will send from heaven and save me, he will put to shame those who trample on me."
-*No Army
-*No resources
-And who does he get?  The dregs of society.
+Psalm 142 begins: "With my voice I cry to the Lord; with my voice I make supplication to the Lord. I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him. When my spirit is faint, you know my way. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me. Look on my right hand and see—there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.
 *Wilderness times in our lives, times of retreat and growth, expanding our vision and forming our values
-*Three Categories
-**(מָצ֜וֹק) (matzoq) Distressed - Oppressed, in trouble, refugees (today's immigrants?)
-**(נֹשֶׁא֙) (n'sheh) In Debt - (Acts 2:44-45)
-**(מַר-נֶ֔פֶשׁ) (mar-nephesh) "bitter souls," Discontent, broken people.
 Leadership principles:
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 *When God calls you, he doesn't send you the professionals.  He sends the broken rejects.
 *But God uses the Cave.  God uses the people. Read a few chapters later to see how David's "mighty men" turn out.

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 Last week's scripture passage was a really long one--almost an entire chapter of the Bible--and yet it covered only one brief episode in the life of young David.  Today's scripture passage, by contrast, is short.  Just two verses, and yet it summarizes a long period of time--several years in the rise of King David.
-I say "King" David, but David is nowhere near being king yet. In fact, at this point in his life, he's an outlaw, a bandit.  The stories from this time in his life, both before and after today's scripture reading, describe a man who is more like Robin Hood than King Arthur.
+I say "King" David, but David is nowhere near being king yet. In fact, at the beginning of this passage, he is nothing more than a refugee, on the run from a raving and jealous king Saul, who has tried many times to have David killed. The reason David's brothers and all his father's house come to him in hiding is probably because their lives are in danger too, on account of their connection to David.
 *No country
 *No Army

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 *Wilderness times in our lives, times of retreat and growth, expanding our vision and forming our values
-*Who comes to David?  The same people who come to Jesus. Outcasts. David's family would be outcasts now, too.
+*Who comes to David?  The same people who come to Jesus. Outcasts. David's family would be outcasts now, too. (Matthew 11:9)
 *Adullam's Cave as the church
 *Three Categories
-**Distressed - Immigrants as "distressed" (refugees)
+**(מָצ֜וֹק) (matzoq) Distressed - Oppressed, in trouble, refugees (today's immigrants?)
-**In Debt - (Acts 2:44-45)
+**(נֹשֶׁא֙) (n'sheh) In Debt - (Acts 2:44-45)
-**Discontent
+**(מַר-נֶ֔פֶשׁ) (mar-nephesh) "bitter souls," Discontent, broken people.
 Leadership principles:
 *When God calls you, usually the cave comes before the palace.
 *When God calls you, he doesn't send you the professionals.  He sends the broken rejects.
 *Talk about Supreme Court ruling? Gay Marriage?
 *Talk about AME Church shooting?
 *Talk about Confederate Flag?