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Well, what a week, huh? For those of you kids that don't have the internet or

watch the news, I have a little spoiler alert. It's kind of been a thing this week,

amen? And a little odd. If you had to pick one word to describe people's emotional

state this week, what word would you choose? Fear, anxiety, stress, tinfoil hat,

all of that would be appropriate, okay? I would say fear is the primary

feeling that most people are experiencing. And it was one of those surreal kind of

weeks. Wednesday night, top men's turned on my phone, all the sports are canceled.

Thursday, Grayson, I had our 32nd year anniversary of our first date.

So this was not virus week. This was anniversary week for me. And so we had our first

date, March 12, 1988. We were 17 years of age. And I always say men age like milk and women

age like wine. So that's kind of where we're at at the Driscoll House. And so we were

out having, you know, a little time together, running errands, going out to lunch and such.

And then all of a sudden, my phone, probably like yours, just kept exploding. I was

supposed to have a couple dozen pastors in from around the country for coaching and training

on Friday. They canceled. Saturday was supposed to preach to the men's of

in Ohio. That canceled. Sunday was supposed to preach. I got a church out of state. That

canceled. And then next week, I was supposed to go teach at a Bible college in Canada. That

was canceled. I looked at Grayson's like, woo, we get a seven day date. This is amazing.

We get to continue our anniversary indefinitely. So I kind of fired up about that.

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