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Hey friends, welcome back to our summer series.

I hope you're having a great summer so far.

And even if you're not, right?

Sometimes our summers don't go the way we planned.

Even if not, I hope that these moments together during our Fruit, the Spirit, summer series is an opportunity to reset, right? Just take a minute.

I like to use the word realign, realign our hearts with truth, because it's just so easy to go

along our merry little way and think that everything's okay and it's fine. And then suddenly

you find ourselves exhausted or discouraged or frustrated or going, how did I not get very far this summer

in the goals that I had or in the things that I really wanted to grow in? And so this is a moment.

Just take a few minutes here. It's the shortest episodes we make here, but it's a, it's just a moment to

realign with the truth of God's word. This summer, we're talking about the fruit of the spirit

out of Galatians chapter 5, verse 22. If you've not joined us for this whole series, I invite you

to go back and listen to all the previous ones. We've so far been on love, joy,

peace, and patience. And today is kindness. I'm going to reaid Galatians 522 for us just to remind

us what Paul says about the fruit of spirit. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,

patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things,

there is no law. Paul reminds us that the fruit that we so long to see in all

these characteristics, I mean, I would love to have more self-control, more peace, more kindness,

more faithfulness, and for sure, more patience, right? All these things. I long to have more of these

things, but I cannot, as Paul David Tripp says, staple that fruit onto my tree and be like,

ta-da, look at this fruit that's going on in my life, that the fruit must be produced because of

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