Hi, my friends. I'm sitting out on my porch this morning and I'm thinking about you. And I

guess I've had this thought. And I've been kind of thinking about ways to spend our time

together. Ways I can honor your time and ways that I can give to you in these moments

that we have. I want to make sure that you get something out of each time and that I

help you really become the people each of you are called to be. That's my greatest desire.

And so I've been thinking about it and you know I get I seem to get asked more and more

these days about my life. I get lots of messages and emails. I get stopped different places

like the grocery store or after a service. And people will ask me often how do you do what

you do? It's probably my number one question. You have four kids. They are you know eight

years and under you run ministries. You seem to be happily married. You seem to be mostly

healthy. And how do you do all of this? I mean I want to know your secret. And I guess

I would say my greatest secret to doing all of it is that I don't. My greatest secret

to doing marriage and life and kids and ministry and health is that I don't do all of it.

In fact I have a really strong yes and I have a really strong no and that changes and grows

with the season. But I do have some core values that I live by that I think will help you

wherever you are. And you may have to change this to you know your life. You may not have

four boys. You may have well behaved God fearing children. And I do not at this point have

perfect for for children that are perfectly behaved. But you know your marriage might be

you know seamless and and have no discussions that are ever heated or you know something

that you may have to come to and realize that we could be right. But then that would mean

you are wrong. So you may not come to those places as well in your life or you may you

know not have struggles with income or health or whatever but in my life I found that pain has

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