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Hello, my name is Johnny Dade and I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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I wonder if you've ever seen the object lesson involving rocks, pebbles and sand in a jar
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If you put the sand and the pebbles in the jar first, then there's no room left for the rocks
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But if you put the rocks in first, and then the pebbles, and finally the sand, it all fits
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In the Bible, a religious teacher put a particularly knotty question to Jesus
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Of all the laws and commandments in the Jewish scriptures, which is the most important
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Jesus responds by drawing on ancient wisdom. He quotes from a prayer that all devout Jews would have known by heart the Shema
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Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength
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This, Jesus says, is the first and greatest commandment. In other words, put the rocks in first
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Prioritize love for God and everything else, including how we love other people, will find its proper place
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The key is to make the main thing the main thing. I wonder, might today be the day to put first things first
