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March 8, 2026 - MotH: Excessiveness vs. the Art of Balance & the Beauty of Belonging

March 8, 2026 - MotH: Excessiveness vs. the Art of Balance & the Beauty of Belonging

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Excessiveness vs. the Art of Balance & the Beauty of Belonging

Some monsters are loud and obvious. These three are often overlooked — not because they're rare, but because they've become so familiar we've stopped noticing them.

This week covers gluttony, greed, and lust together, not as a moral checklist, but as expressions of the same restless human impulse: the drive to take more than we need. A birthright traded for a bowl of stew. A man who keeps building bigger barns. A powerful figure undone by desire that overrode everything else.

What holds all three together — and what begins to undo them — is a surprisingly simple idea from the Sermon on the Mount: that we are not the center of the story. When we know we belong to God, and to our neighbor, something in the relentless grasping starts to loosen.

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