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Big fan of short prayers around here.

We like them.

Because you can get intimidated and you can talk yourself out of praying because you're like,

I can't go on and not. Like my attention span isn't awesome or I'm busy, short, emphatic, specific, urgent prayers are really important.

And I still love it.

I'll point this out again, if you haven't heard me, point this out.

When Jesus gave the, like, pray like this and he gave us the Lord's Prayer, it times out

to about 22, 23 seconds.

And there's a lot in there.

It's like, it's not a marathon thing

like we can keep talking to him

it really is true

I saw it I saw a video this very day

it was taken out of a plane window

while they're taxing on the runway

and right outside

alongside the runway was a coyote

chasing a roadrunner at high speed.

Okay. That's ironic. And it got cool. And I was like, what's going to happen?

Right. Will it finally, because it would be satisfying to me. Because throughout our childhood.

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