Good morning, Radicals and Happy Thanksgiving Day.

So I'm recording the show here.

It's early on Wednesday morning, the day before the Thanksgiving Day holiday here in the United

States.

And just have a couple of short comments to share with you that I hope will

be encouraging to you and then we'll leave it at that. I intended to do a more complex show than this, but my week has been somewhat disrupted.

I was planning to, I had all kinds of plans for this week,

but I've spent the last two days and now going

into the third day trying to help a friend of mine

break out of prison and bond out.

It's been, I'll tell you that story in just a moment,

but it's even impacted my own

feelings and sense of gratitude about well life in general seeing being in the middle of working in the prison world for the last two days

has made me appreciate something as simple as my freedom and personal liberty to travel around.

Thanksgiving Day is my favorite holiday.

It's really the only holiday that I celebrate personally.

And it's always been incredibly meaningful to me.

And I like everything about the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

I like the history of it.

I like the tradition.

I like the focus, you know, to sit down and be grateful to God for all of the good things that we have

and all of the trials and the challenges that we have is just an incredible opportunity.

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