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Thanks so much for joining me for today's encouraging word.

God's richest, richest blessings.

May you be reminded today that God has designed you to live forever.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish, shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Can we ask God to help us expand our view of our lives, to understand that this time in this

version of life is just a fraction of our life?

These three words, wounded, worry, weary, they just seem to describe us.

We're wounded from relationship issues, racism issues.

We're weary. We're weary from the pandemic. We're worried.

We're worried about jobs. Worried about school. In a word, we're just so unhappy. We're

unsettled. But John 316 promises a gift, a gift of life. A story I heard, I think, illustrates it. Now, to be clear,

this story made its way to me from a friend who heard it from a friend, who I'm sure heard it

from who knows who. So chances are it has suffered through each of the generation, in each

of the generations and translations. But even if there's only a splinter of fact in what I heard,

oh my goodness, it's really worth retelling.

It seems a fellow is doing some shopping at a commissary on a military base.

Doesn't need much.

Doesn't need much.

Just came in for some coffee and a loaf of bread.

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