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Hey, welcome back, friends.

We are in the summer series for a fruitful summer here at the

Richie of Simon's podcast. If for whatever reason you're just joining us now, I encourage you to go back to

the first episode of our summer series so you understand what it is that we're doing this summer.

My desire was to not weigh us down with too many episodes of

too much content, but to actually give us a little bit of a reading or a listening plan this

summer. I wanted us to consider fruitfulness through the fruit of the spirit. You know, Galatians

chapter 5 verses 22 and 23 says, but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and the tough one, self-control against such things.

There is no law.

And sometimes we think of those all separately, but when we look at it as a whole, fruitfulness ultimately

results in all these characteristics, all these things produced in our lives because we're

abiding in Christ, because we're growing in Christ. And so I don't know what Summer's like

for you, but today we're going to be talking about peace.

And I got to say, I always imagine summer to be super peaceful.

Anyone else out there imagine summertime being like, you know, swinging on a hammock and

drinking an abundance of iced tea.

And I'm so prone to the images in my mind of what summertime feels like,

really low-key and gentle and sweet and restful. And I hope it's going that way for you.

And I think some parts of that, you know, I do feel that at some level every summer,

having my kids close at home. But inevitably,

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