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You know the song, The Blessing. Yes. The Lord bless you and keep you.

We sang that song as a group the other night, and it took on a totally different.

To me, it worked so well in this environment.

It was at a graduation.

Ah, okay.

So the graduates are all on stage facing the crowd, and we're singing to them.

Wow, I like that.

Yes.

Yeah.

So, like, literally, like, we're, and we said that ahead of time, the guy who was leading

on guitar, I was like, look, we are singing this to you as a blessing.

And the song made them so much more sense because you're not singing to God.

Right. The Lord bless you and keep you. Make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

You were singing this to these kids. May the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.

May his favor be upon you into thousands generations in your family and your children and their children may

his presence go before you we're singing all this but you're blessing someone like you you're looking at them

in the face when you're doing it may his presence go before you behind you beside you all around you and

within you he's with you he's with you in the morning and you, beside you, all around you and within you.

He's with you, he's with you in the morning and the evening and you're coming and you're going.

He's with you.

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