All right, if you have a Bible, Luke Chapter 13, the question I wanted to begin with today is,

have you ever felt the pain or the sorrow of someone walking out on you?

If so, this meant. of someone walking out on you.

If so, this message is for you.

The title is Be Right Back. Be right back.

We've all said it, right?

Have you ever been in a line and you just needed to go to the bathroom and you had to ask

a stranger to hold your place in line? That's a tough spot to be in. You almost like hold

your bladder as long as you can and I always am hoping someone

will ask it of me so I can say yes and it's easier to ask for them to return the

favor I little quid pro quo I'll be right back just hold my spot.

We've all said it, not everybody who says it means it though.

Stephen King, one of the most famous writers,

writes books that are horrific, tortured, gnarly, crazy. It's interesting to know some of the things in his life that brought him to a place of having so many awful things to write.

When he was four years old, his dad told his family, I'm going out for cigarettes.

And like a scene stolen from a meme, he never came back. The trip to get those smokes ended up being Stephen, who was four years old at the time never saw his father again.

Scary.

It's disorienting to have somebody who you trusted in abandon you.

Someone will walk out on you.

It's a terrible feeling.

Even when it's not real, like even when you know it's not not there's still like your mind can play tricks on you I remember when I was a little kid one of my core memories I was talking to my dad about this last night

he took me on a trip just him and I to Washington DC to go see We got to, you know, see Abraham Lincoln and see the,

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