We had kind of a significant experience yesterday with our dear friend Andre who we've talked to on the podcast a couple times and I just

felt important to talk about it today and share why I feel like we've been asked as Christians to mourn with those that mourn and I think that most just

kind-hearted good people are about this too but I think it's something that I don't know I don't know that I've ever

really had a conversation about it so I think it'll be good for us to just like talk about

the why of this but yeah our friend Andre who lives in the Ukraine who we you know we

were pretty heavily involved in the beginning of the war there with helping raise funds and sending them over to Ukraine and then he was just like is was and is a hero just like went out and fed so many people like it was so Christ like he would find people who didn't have

access to food and especially when the war was first just crazy and people

couldn't get groceries and so he would find these people people who were

elderly or had disabilities and use the donations that we gathered and then get food delivered to these people for a week at a time or two weeks at a time or whatever.

Yesterday I had a bunch of phone calls and meetings and stuff yesterday morning and then I got off of them and right when I got off I got on my

Instagram stories and saw that Andre was posting it looked like he was in like a hospital or something

and I was like I wonder what's going on and then I

watched this video where he said my mom has passed away they confirmed that my mom

passed away and I felt so bad and then I saw that he was live. He'd gone live on Instagram.

So I joined his live and just sat there with him and you know really felt so deeply for him and what he was going through

and you were there with me.

And we just agreed that that was the most important thing

that we could be doing that day on a you know

Friday afternoon and then we had a really cool opportunity to pray with him

you know someone had suggested earlier like oh can Curran go live with you and

pray for you and I had said I would love to do that if you want that and so then

probably an hour later he said well I should go to bed but I would love for someone to

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