Oh, God bless.

God bless everyone.

God bless listeners.

Oh, man.

I feel like it has been an eternity since I've gotten to experience the word.

You know, it's funny how absence... since I've gotten to experience the word.

It's funny how absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I didn't think I could be any fonder, but, you know, took a little absence, and there you go.

I once heard someone say that instead of absence makes the heart grow fonder, they said,

Absinth makes the heart grow fonder. Absinth.

Do you get it?

Oh, my God.

Oh, praise God for the humor that he's given us for the gift of laughter.

What are the odds that God would design a language like English?

Well, I mean, he had to for the Bible and everything, but where two words,

absinth and absence would sound the same, but yet be so different.

Just one of those little things to philosophize about philosophicize um so uh this is so strange

i've forgotten to introduce myself um i can only assume that most of you are repeat listeners

but maybe uh maybe the lord has led a few new, you know, stragglers, you know,

collected a few stragglers from the path to righteousness and given them over to my podcast.

So for anyone new, go back and listen because a lot has happened, and I would not recommend starting on episode 103, Chronicles 29, 2nd Chronicles 29 through 2nd Chronicles 31.

I would not recommend that to be the start.

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